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September

1. Why you should love statistics | Alan Smith

2. Population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling

3. Data storytelling | Ben Wellington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The BIG Short - Sales Pitch (Video LINK)

October 2021

1. Show me the DATA  in yourself | Talithia Williams

2. Big Data and why does it matter? | Donna Green

3.  Mathematics and sex | Clio Cresswell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2022

1. 3 Ways to spot a bad statistic | Mona Chalabi

2. Choice, happiness and spag-sauce | Malcolm Gladwell

3.  The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December:  Mandatory for ALL: The story of American poverty,                                                                        as told by one Alabama county | PBS NewsHour (link)

Statement by Mr. Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty in U.S. - Link 

Poverty rates surge in American suburbs - PBS NewsHour Video

• Changing Geography of Poverty - Link

February/March

1. Three Types of Bias | J. Marshall Shepherd | TEDx - MUST Do!

2. The Perfect Score - Cheating on SAT | 60 Minutes

3. U.S. Aristocracy and Segregation| PBS NewsHour

4. Valeant Pharmaceuticals & Wilson's Diease | Dirty Money Link 

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March/April

1. Mandatory for ALL: Senior Spring: How Teens Feel About Guns in America | NPR

   • Historical GUN Sales in U.S.​

2. Dunning-Kruger Effect: The psychological phenomenon of cognitive bias that gives people with low ability an illusion of superiority.

3. Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo - Government Costs and Tax Cuts

4. Why so many Americans in the middle class have no savings - PBS NewsHour - June 2016