STATISTICIAN

I recently interviewed Associated Content Contributor Peter Flom. He has been a member of AC since July of 2009 and somehow manages to be a father, a statistician and a writer all at once. A wide variety of topics can be found in his AC library.

Contraty to the popular opinion that India is a large but chaotic democracy that barely functions, this CP believs that India is a vibrant and self evolving democratic system. Read on...

According to the CDC, life expectancy continues to rise thanks to reductions in death related to top killers. Prevention and advances in medicine important for continuing trend.

"Our findings suggest that low health literacy exacts enormous costs on both the health system and society, and that current expenditures could be far better directed through a commitment to improving health literacy."

The report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has said that life expectancy in the United States has increased to 78 years-old.

Story of Luther Burbank's involvement in the American Eugenics Movement

Sociologist and researcher from Ohio State University found that students in year-round schools learn more during the summer, when others are on vacation, but they seem to learn less than other children during the rest of the year.

This is a list of the most commonly feared violent deaths, along with statistics proving how unlikely we are to die this way.

Taboos regulate our sexual conduct, race relations, political institutions, and economic mechanisms - virtually every realm of our life.

A college research paper on how sabermetrics works and how it relies heavily on mathematics.

Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently begun paying lip service to sustainable development and to the environmental costs of their policies.

Reviewing a recent Discovery Channel special

Two analysts predict higher than normal hurricane risk in parts of Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina.

Mathematics has been said to be one of the most difficult disciplines in the field of education. This, however, ought not to be the case since getting the mind reason mathematically is one of the simplest training, in that math is simple logic.

Washington remains the center of many varying historiographic studies two hundred years after Washington's service in the Revolutionary War.

Results of Recently Published Study from Great Britain Indicates that the Body Mass Index (BMI) May not be an Accurate Predictor of Subsequent Health Problems in the Elderly.

Rickey Henderson still holds onto the idea that someone will pick him up at the age of 47, but he should be in the Hall of Fame before he's fifty.

A family reunion, ducks, conjuring up beer from thin air, and a naughty story about horses

We are constantly being bombarded with statistics. Every advertiser, politician, spin doctor and pressure group seems to have reams of statistics to help sell their product or position. But do we really know how to evaluate all the pablum we're being fed?