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In a newly released report, Estimated Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1990-2005: An Update, [PDF]the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides details on trends in pregnancies, abortions and live births.
The data table below shows the teen, live-birth rates per 1,000 women in the specified group for the year 2005:
When evaluating groups of quarterbacks, I tend to use the NFL's much maligned "passer rating" statistics. It synthesizes a "quarterback's completion percentage, passing yardage, touchdowns and interceptions" into one number.
There are a lot of problems with it:
A group of five minority teens set a teenage white boy on fire and laughed about it. None the stories seem to say this, they don't mention either the color of the victim, pictured on the left, or of the attackers, two of who, Jesus Mendez and Steven Shelton, are pictured on the right.
Inductivist has all the details, such as:
In all the brouhaha over Rush Limbaugh being prevented from buying part of an NFL team, has anybody noticed that his endlessly denounced remark -- the one he actually said in 2003, not the libelous made-up ones we've been hearing lately -- about the media overrating black quarterbacks for political reasons have been largely vindicated?
Six years later, 2009 is turning out to be a bust for black quarterbacks in the NFL. Not a single one is having a good season.
Steven D. Levitt's and Stephen Dubner's new surefire bestseller ¡SuperFreakonomics! is being widely anathematized for exhibiting signs of heretical doubts about Global Warming or Climate Change or whatever it's called these days.
On Wednesday James Fulford reported on a very alert item by the blog Nation of Cowards: Chi-Trib Mug Shots: Focusing On White Criminals? This pointed out and illustrated that the Chicago Tribune (owned since December 2008 by billionaire Sam Zell in one of his
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10/18/09 - A NC Reader Sees Double Standards At The National Association of Hispanic Journalists
From: Erskine Thomason (e-mail him)