https://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2017/sep/08/hurricane-irma-5-myths-about-hurricane-prep-forget/

Can I put valuables in my dishwasher? Can I drink the water I plan to store in my bathtub?

Even seasoned Floridians might not know whether their go-to hurricane tips are fact or fiction.

The urban-rural divide in American politics has been widely documented since the 2016 presidential election. But in the run-up to the 2018 midterm election, more attention has focused on the potential political battlegrounds in the suburbs.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/02/5-facts-about-u-s-suburbs/

Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Around four-in-ten (42%) say they have taken a break from checking the platform for a period of several weeks or more, while around a quarter (26%) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone. All told, some 74% of Facebook users say they have taken at least one of these three actions in the past year.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook/

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/what-is-a-comma-splice

Once you learn about comma splices, you notice them everywhere,…

http://theconversation.com/why-theres-so-much-inconsistency-in-school-shooting-data-102318

A closer look at this survey shows why the U.S. Department of Education’s data was so inaccurate.

For most Americans, exposure to different content and ideas on social media has not caused them to change their opinions. But a small share of the public – 14% – say they have changed their views about a political or social issue in the past year because of something they saw on social media, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted May 29-June 11.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/15/14-of-americans-have-changed-their-mind-about-an-issue-because-of-something-they-saw-on-social-media/

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/sentence-length

If you’ve resolved to tame your inner Proust, here are a couple of suggestions.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Program-at-Kean-U-Is-Losing/244307

Holy smokes!!!

Until the last five years, polymer product designers have typically not considered what will happen after the end of their product’s initial lifetime. This is beginning to change, and this issue will require increasing focus in the years ahead.
https://theconversation.com/the-world-of-plastics-in-numbers-100291

One of these criteria is the survey’s margin of error. Since surveys only question a sample of a larger population that is being studied – whether that population is a single city, an entire country or something else – the margin of error describes the estimated range within which we would expect the exact answer to fall. (The results we would have gotten if we had surveyed everyone in that larger population is the “true population value.”) For example, if a survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, that means we can expect the result to be within 3 percentage points of the true population value 95 out of 100 times.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/03/when-writing-about-survey-data-51-might-not-mean-a-majority/