The priming effect!
Most Government Websites Fail Online Trust Alliance Security & Privacy Audit | Bloomberg BNA
https://www.bna.com/government-websites-fail-b73014453609/
Consumer services sites such as Twitter Inc. and YouTube have the best website and email security and privacy practices, but approximately 60 percent of government websites are exposed to cybersecurity threats, according to a June 20 report by the Online Trust Alliance, an online industry non-profit.
Do poor people eat more junk food than wealthier Americans? – The Conversation
More than just a simple explanation, as the authors note. It’s research and not anecdotal discussion.
http://theconversation.com/do-poor-people-eat-more-junk-food-than-wealthier-americans-79154
Datasets | Pew Research Center
http://www.journalism.org/datasets/
Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time.
What’s Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise
A really great chart…
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
A few queued articles!
While there were some system problems, I collected a few articles of note…
Inside the U.S. government’s plans to survive a nuclear war – The Washington Post
When Did We Start Shopping at Stores? | JSTOR Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/when-did-we-start-shopping-at-stores/
In a 1979 paper, Gareth Shaw and M. T. Wild traced the beginnings of the store as it developed in British cities in the nineteenth century.
Shaw and Wild write that pre-industrial “retail” began with periodic markets or fairs. As more people moved to the cities, craftsmen began setting up local shops, selling their own products to their neighbors.
How surveying 1,000 people tells you what all Americans think | Pew Research Center
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/methods-101-random-sampling/
Here at Pew Research Center, we are often asked about how we conduct our research. We work hard to make our methodologies transparent and understandable, but we also know that survey mode effects and data weighting aren’t on everyone’s short list of water-cooler conversation topics.
That’s why we’re launching Methods 101, a new occasional video series dedicated to explaining and educating the public about the basic methods we use to conduct our survey research. We hope this effort will make survey methods more accessible, even if you’re not a statistician or pollster. We also hope it will help give our audience the confidence to be savvy consumers of all polls.
Our first video is about random sampling, a concept that undergirds all probability-based survey research. The video explains what it means and why it’s important. We hope you’ll find it useful.
Video Explainer: Understanding random sampling for public opinion surveys | Pew Research Center
10 Reasons to Join ASPA
http://www.aspanet.org/ASPA/Membership/ASPA_Benefits/ASPA/Membership/10-Reasons-to-Join.aspx
ASPA Benefits and 10 reasons to join…
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality – The New York Times
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction — an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.
A Fair Use Primer for Graduate Students | GradHacker
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/fair-use-primer-graduate-students
…just a few examples to give you a sense of the fair use exemption to copyright law. Although it is confusing, it is important to do your best to stay within the law
How to Run an Effective Meeting – Business Guides – The New York Times
The basics… but not often followed.
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/business/how-to-run-an-effective-meeting
“Give Us Bread!” | JSTOR Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/give-us-bread/
For many years, scholars maintained that food riots were a phenomenon left behind in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Food riots were understood to be spontaneous, localized economic protests that had no place in the twentieth century’s strong, centralized countries with their increasingly national markets. The events of 1917 were considered to be an anomaly—except they continued through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In 2007 and 2008, which saw steep increases in the prices of basic food commodities, there were food riots in 30 countries, from the “Pasta Protests” in Italy to the rice protests in Haiti. For the past year, Venezuela has been wracked by food shortages and riots, often quelled by tear gas and gunfire.
Faced with this reality, scholars have begun to reconsider food riots. More than a mass reaction to an immediate physical need, the food riot can also be seen as a form of cultural and political protest, often arising from groups outside the traditional power structure.
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