Eugene Volokh recently took a college newspaper to task for its poor handling of numerical data that, if the reporters and editors had been more numerically literate, would have saved them the embarrassment of discovering that the numbers they published in connection with the number of rapes occurring in the U.S. were highly unrealistic.
That's why Political Calculations(TM) is proud to offer the following tool, which takes a number and a corresponding period of time, and does all the math needed to figure out what the corresponding statistic would be for other periods of time!
While this tool won't help the typical college journalist (or for that matter, a professional one) realize what a realistic number might be, at least now, they don't have any excuses for not getting the math right....
Welcome to the blogosphere's toolchest! Here, unlike other blogs dedicated to analyzing current events, we create easy-to-use, simple tools to do the math related to them so you can get in on the action too! If you would like to learn more about these tools, or if you would like to contribute ideas to develop for this blog, please e-mail us at:
ironman at politicalcalculations
Thanks in advance!
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