February 8, 2012

The FencePost Error

Some friends and I were talking about the recent Dayton police lawsuit – where people are suing the city because only a small percentage of African American applicants pass the entrance exam. In order to squash concerns that the exam was somehow racist, the city released a bunch of sample questions from the exam. After [...]

Newspapers Who Don’t Link

I’m starting to notice an ugly trend among online newspapers. Unlike most blogs and online only sources, traditional newspapers don’t link to websites in articles – even when the website is the focus of the article. I must have read about 4 or 5 articles earlier about wikileaks leaking the ACMA list of banned websites [...]