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An op-ed column in today’s Washington Post reveals some alarming misunderstandings on the part of the writer. An article in the Post about the U.S. ‘trade deficit’ is utterly baffling. A column in this morning’s Washington Post makes the common mistake of thinking that something must be true if you want it to be badly enough — in this case, that SUVs are the mark of vanity, ego, dilettantism, etc. Debunking statistics included from the Census Bureau. A recent article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell uses severely flawed statistics in an attempt to show that SUVs are particularly unsafe. The anti-smoking movements public health claims often directly contradict their own statistics and studies. |