…more primary sources. “Virtually no evidence” of illegal voting by non-citizens “has been discovered.” Disproven by facts from the academic journal Electoral Studies, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the academic…

…numerous academic papers provide evidence of the benefits of competition in wide-ranging industries. Likewise, the academic serial work Handbook of Research on School Choice states: Much of the debate over…

…graduation rates, academic time investment, and the learning of practical skills are all suffering. The True Costs of College Over the past several decades, college tuitions have ballooned, negatively impacting…

…Cox could have also found proof of Glen’s professorship at West Point via a peer-reviewed journal, an academic book that he coauthored on the topic of computational probability, or the…

…filings and 17 years of academic accomplishments. Among these are citations of Just Facts’ work by a wide variety of prominent and scholarly organizations, including: media outlets, such as CBS,…

…allegations does not mean that these were the only false reports. In evaluating this “2%” claim, an academic work about “False Allegations of Sexual Assault“ calls it a “myth” and…

…these notions are misleading or explicitly false. Racial Segregation Sanders repeatedly blames the “re-segregation of our K–12 schools” for the poor academic performance of black and Latino students. He bases…

…“mass shootings” during 2017. Less than 1% of all murders in the U.S. occur in shootings where four or more people are killed—an academic definition of mass shootings. Because such…

…population. A 2022 academic paper based on interviews with eight people convicted of murdering child sex offenders in prison found that half of them justified their actions by making statements…

…past. Moreover, a counter-culture has developed in places where many U.S. immigrants live. The academic book American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change details these phenomena. Per…

…likely to commit serious crimes than the U.S. population. Studies that claim otherwise typically suffer from fallacies condemned by academic publications about how to accurately analyze data. The Most Concrete…

By James D. Agresti February 28, 2015 Based upon two new papers in academic journals, media outlets have been reporting that the world’s oceans are overwhelmed with plastic waste. However,…

…of an academic textbook about analyzing data: Association is not the same as causation. This issue is a persistent problem in empirical analysis in the social sciences. Often the investigator…

By James D. Agresti November 8, 2011 Revised 11/15/11 Citing various academic sources, AP science writer Seth Borenstein is reporting that • “levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the…

…recognized by monetary institutions, economics textbooks, and academic journals as the most common measure of income inequality. Since 1967, which is as far back as the Census Bureau provides this…

…protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing. Shatter-Resistant Entryways As documented in the academic journal Victims & Offenders, an “immediate and economical” way to protect…

…a far more deadly business.” Nevertheless, the portion of the U.S. population killed in mass shootings (defined in academic literature as those in which four or more people are killed),…

…and should be a “salad bowl” in which people mix but remain culturally distinct. The editors of the academic serial work American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural…

…today. Per the 1971 academic book White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction, the “real beginning” of the “Ku Klux conspiracy” occurred at an 1867 meeting in…

…the horrid track record of so-called fact checkers and the widespread breakdown of journalistic and academic integrity, this fatally flawed study only reinforces the need to conduct your own research….

…to accurately calculate tax burdens. For instance, the academic book Federal Taxation explains that using “taxable income” to compute tax burdens is a “bit misleading” and says “little about the…

…This is called “overgeneralizing,” and academic works on applied statistics warn that “researchers in the behavioral and social sciences almost always want to make inferences beyond their samples,” but this…

…“fact checkers” have tried to contest the reality that substantial numbers of non-citizens vote in U.S. elections, but a multitude of facts from academic books and journals have shown that…

…outlets and “fact checkers” have tried to contest those realities, but a multitude of facts from academic books and journals have shown that their arguments consist of mathematically illiterate notions,…

…academic works: “Manipulation of data involves subjecting data to multiple statistical techniques until one achieves the desired outcome.” “A general principle of data analysis recommends using the most appropriate, yet…

…range of academic publications explain that excessive government debt can cause far-reaching negative outcomes, such as lower wages, weak economic growth, increased inflation, higher taxes, reduced government benefits, or combinations…

…since 1960, even after accounting for inflation: Over the same period, colleges have greatly reduced academic loads, significantly inflated grades, and failed to instill practical and literacy skills in large…

…topics, with tools to help people use this knowledge in everyday life. This includes subjects like identifying the strengths and weaknesses of academic studies, evaluating the credibility of polls, and…

…will be due to social programs and interest on the national debt. Harmful Effects A broad range of academic publications explain that excessive government debt can cause far-reaching negative outcomes,…

…as speeding, driving with an expired license plate, or operating a vehicle with a broken headlight or blinker. For example, a study conducted in NJ and published by the academic…

…of this key variable by using values ranging from 33% to 100%, which were determined by researching a wide array of academic literature. CBO’s new figure of 75% falls roughly…

…careers. These [academic achievement] uniformities make [racial] comparisons within the legal education system much easier. Blacks [who pass the bar exam] earn 6% to 9% more early in their careers…

…the U.S. Government Accountability Office published an examination of six studies identified through a “detailed literature review of academic journals” and other sources to find recent, original studies that “have…

…academic book White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction: “The Klan became in effect a terrorist arm of the Democratic party, whether the party leaders as a…

…and political propaganda. In the words of an academic textbook about analyzing data: Association is not the same as causation. This issue is a persistent problem in empirical analysis in…

…U.S. government agencies have virtually ignored it except on a website that stores copies of academic papers. The upshot of this genetic proof-reading mechanism, as explained in the March 2020…

…level. The academic serial work Flood Geomorphology stresses the danger of relying on computer models instead of hard data: True science is concerned with understanding nature no matter what the…

…the academic work Quantitative Investing for the Global Markets affirms that “we should be concerned not with nominal quantities [i.e., those not adjusted for inflation] but with real ones.” The…

…carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air that we breathe.” In stark contrast, the academic book Carbon Dioxide Capture for Storage in Deep Geologic Formations…

…academic book about analyzing data, “One of the worst abuses of analytics is to cherry pick results. Cherry pickers tout analysis findings when the results serve the purpose at hand….

…is due to soar to unprecedented levels over coming decades. Harmful Effects A broad range of academic publications explain that excessive government debt can cause far-reaching negative outcomes, such as…

…21 high-quality studies have been performed on the academic outcomes of students who remain in public schools that are subject to school choice programs. All but one of the studies…

…those “misinformation” policies and other pronouncements of tech giants, government officials, media outlets, and fact checkers often flout basic principles of academic integrity, spread deadly falsehoods, and suppress facts that…

…CBS, the New York Times, and the Associated Press is consistent with recent academic research that finds large corporate media outlets “play a significant and important role in the dissemination…

…but the vast majority of these analyses fail to pass even basic standards of intellectual honesty or academic rigor. This is because they use misleading measures of debt or fail…