How to spot the signs of the next school shooting
The signs of a school shooting are all there, and they’re all in the form of the “school shooting statistics.”As the days go by, I see them all.On Twitter, my fellow social justice warriors have been retweeting a series of stories from the “Hoodline” website, which collects news reports from news outlets in the U.S. […]
How to Spot a Mass Shooting in Your Own Backyard
A mass shooting is when someone shoots people or animals at large gatherings of people or people in close proximity.In order to identify and report a mass shooting, it is important to understand how mass shootings work.The definition of a mass event is a large group of people that is shot, or injured, by someone […]
MLB players on flu deaths statistics,Inferential statistics,Baseball statistics
By Robert M. ShackelfordAssociated PressAssociated PressLONDON — A major flu outbreak in Britain has led to a spike in cases of the virus, prompting calls for a rethink of the nation’s response to the pandemic.On Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he would raise the death toll from the flu to at least 10,000 […]
“It’s time to stop focusing on the ‘why’ of things”
We’ve had a lot of fun with the term “epic failure” and it’s becoming a bit of a catch-all term for everything that can go wrong.We’ve written about the “why” of everything and now we’ve got a new definition for “epicentre failure.”We’re going to explore the various types of failure in detail in this article, […]