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Index
ABC News
abortion
absolute malice
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
AIG
alcohol, and mental illness
Aldrin, Buzz
alien-abduction advocates
Alsop, Joseph
American Psychiatric Association
American Statistical Association
An Inconvenient Truth (film)
Annan, Kofi
Apollo missions
apple-polishing
“average” vs. “mean” figures
in graphs
tax cut data
apples-oranges comparisons
Arming America (Bellesiles)
Armstrong, Neil
Arrow’s theorem
Arthur Andersen
asteroid scares
astrological predictions
Athens, plebiscites in
athletes:
colors worn by
male and female sprinters
marathon runners
atom smashers
Audi 5000 automobile
autism
auto industry
average
Bachmann, Michelle
Baldus, David
Barefoot, Thomas
Barkley, Dean
Baze, Ralph
Baze v. Rees
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Bear Stearns
Belair, George
bell curve
Bellesiles, Michael
Bell Laboratories
Beltrami County, Minnesota, lizard people in
Bernanke, Ben
Berry, Joan
bicycles, free
biological weapons
black holes
blond gene
Bloomberg, Michael
Blue Dog Coalition
Blue Earth County, Minnesota, ballots in
body temperature
Boorstin, Daniel
Borda voting
Bradley, Ed
Branson, Richard
breast cancer
Breyer, Stephen G.
Brind, Joel
Brown, Nicole
Buchanan, Pat
budgets, proofiness in
Buffett, Warren
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.:
Blue Dog Coalition attack on
Homeland Security Advisory System
No Child Left Behind
and polls
and presidential election (2000)
and warrantless wiretapping
Bush, Jeb
Bush v. Gore
butt, perfect, formula for
Califano, Joseph
cancer
and abortion
and cell phones
and NutraSweet
Carter, Jimmy
casuistry, definition of
causuistry
abortion-suicide connection
autism
debt
definition of
drugs
hip-to-waist ratios
NutraSweet-cancer connection
tobacco tax
cell phones:
and cancer
use while driving
Census Bureau, U.S.
census numbers:
actual enumeration
cost of obtaining
estimation
fallibility of
and House of Representatives
imputation
purposefully inaccurate
sampling