Op-Ed
Megan McArdle and I co-wrote an op-ed on that Detroit Free Press map of median household income. The opening line: "It often gets dicey for readers when journalists, who are rarely math majors, play with numbers and then publish misleading or mistaken conclusions."
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As somebody who's been reading the Free Press since the late 60's, and spent a great deal of that time in a futile effort to get them to issue corrections for their numerous, politically loaded errors of fact, I had to laugh when I read that, "But it is more likely ignorance than malice." line.
Honest journalists are willing to correct errors. Did you get a correction out of them, once you'd erased their ignorance?
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