During the campaign, Donald Trump called the official unemployment rate published by the Labor Department “such a phony number,” “one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics,” and “the biggest joke there is.” He variously described the real rate as 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 , 24 , 25, 28, 29, 30 and 35 percent .
Category: Mathematics
LAWSUIT: Political Science Professor Forced To Teach Statistics Because Asians Are ‘Good At’ Math
A political science professor at the taxpayer-funded University of Illinois at Chicago is suing the school in federal court for discrimination in part because he claims that his bosses compelled him to teach statistics courses despite the fact that he is not qualified to teach statistics. The professor, Seung-Whan Choi, says his superiors told him that his Asian heritage sufficiently qualified him to teach math, according to court documents obtained by The Chicago Tribune .
The Year’s Best Drug Scares
Marijuana was on the ballot in six states this year, and prohibitionists hauled out some familiar, even quaint, arguments against legalization. Three of those warnings made my list of the year’s most memorable drug scares, which is rounded out by the panic over adolescent vaping and the DEA’s decision to treat kratom as a public menace.