cocaine use nearly doubled — from 0.9 to 1.9 percent
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Science of Persuasion in the Courtroom Questions Nancy Camarillo - 23 views
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I agree that both media outlets and politicians are heavily based on framing the information they are presenting to persuade the public to see there views even if it distrots the truth.
http://www.astcweb.org/public/publication/documents/Burkley%20Sept%202008%20TJE1.pdf - 7 views
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I have seen a study which said that judges are even more likely to give a soft sentence after lunch.
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Discussion questions for 11/21 on Facts in Policy Paradox - 23 views
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1. Is a rational democratic model ever possible in a free society where people have the choice of religion and cannot be forced to become aware of all of the information available?
2. Do you think that some form of the totalitarian model exists in the united states where some information is hidden from the public or presented in such a light as to not cause a negative effect?
Drug experiment - Page 4 - Boston.com - 1 views
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since when is a change from .9 to 1.9 nearly doubled it more then doubled.
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Sample Chapter for Fung, A.: Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy. - 2 views
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In the months and years ahead, the parents and personnel of Harambee would attempt to advance their historical and cultural commitment to scholastic achievement through a variety of programs that included technology labs, prekindergarten programs, physical plant upgrading, curriculum changes, and a host of instructional innovations.
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I think this is a good example for other underprivileged areas to take a more active role in their communities vs simply moving out as they gain more wealth or demanding the money take more money from other areas. More can be achieved by working together and fixing what is wrong in their areas.
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Kiera's Questions for Friday November 3rd - 16 views
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I agree that this chart still is valid today despite being so old. I think that although using these groups is an easy way for politicians to gain and hold support they also can be used to manipulate the political system. If politicians are constantly worried about losing the support of a specific group (even ones considered "good") how can they fairly put forth legislation that is not preferential?
Decisions in policy making - Tania - 17 views
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I don't think using target populations is fair to everyone as whole despite the fact it may help get a large amount of support if it is intentionally written from the point of view of serving a specific interest group the whole is still going to lose.
Discussion Questions- October 28th, 2011- Ryan Brown - 16 views
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I think that deterrence is the main intent of the violence today. The problem becomes how conservative or liberal should we be when attempting to deter which may be even worse violence.
Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil - 3 views
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Overall I agree that powerpoints are poorly implemented, yet I think they can be used properly to improve a presentation. I think the major problems with usage today is. -Too much content/Blocks of text -Distraction (especially in classes where everyone is so busy copying the slides down they mis important information) -Presenter relies on the information to remember what the presentation is on (basically being unprepared) -Related to last one losing track of the topic and jumping around to different slides to figure out what you wanted to talk about
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Questions: Policy and Science - 18 views
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I think that data visualization is a powerful way to display information whether the internet existed or not but the internet has allowed for collection and dispersion of information for these visualizations to be collected and distributed on a scale never seen before.
Questions on Alex Lundry Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization - 13 views
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I do agree that Data Visualization is a more effective means of displaying information. The internet and information age is a great example of this with the plethora of freely available information companies are spending more and more money on manipulating this leading to a boom in data visualization experts.
an interesting data viz contest by google -> http://datavizchallenge.org/
Questions on Rosling's New Insights On Poverty - 20 views
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I think they are very important to the growth of a society but I think there is a natural hierarchy of growth in these different areas. I think economic growth will lead to increased education and health spending, then increased education leads to more culture and human rights, to get human rights implemented governance needs to be stable and accessible. Once all these are reached citizens will look outward to protecting the environment and society as a whole will move forward.
What Makes Us Happy? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views
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He would spend the rest of his career—and expects to spend the rest of his life—following these men.
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I think this is more telling of Vaillant, it seems he is still trying to find what happened to his father to take such a drastic turn. As with the beginning of the article it seems he had lead a very good life having lead of a life of adventure, finding a good wife, having children, and settling down in a good career.
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They were normal when I picked them,
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What is there idea of normal let alone their definition of a happy life? Seems like this is flawed from the start a study of a particular group 268 white males from an affluent background, having studied at a prestigious university at the end of the great depression.
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