Within days of taking office, the Trump administration began purging federal demographic data—on a wide range of topics, including public health, education and climate—from government websites to ...

On August 28, Republican representative August Pfluger introduced the COUNT Act. If passed, it would add a citizenship ...

We compiled colleges’ first-year demographics in an interactive database to track how they changed after the affirmative action ban. Draw conclusions at your own risk. That picture has begun to emerge ...

[I have updated and basically rewritten the post in light of new information that allows me to explain matters much more clearly, I think.] This year's entering class is the first since admissions ...

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OncotypeDx offers another example of potential harm when not considering basic demographics in large-scale data set analyses. OncotypeDX is a clinical test used to recommend chemotherapy as part of ...