SheKnows, the giant digital media company has gobbled up BlogHer, the giant women’s blogging community in hopes of luring more female visitors, more brands and more advertising dollars to their lifestyle fiefdom that specializes in fashion, food, gardening and naturally – parenting! If you don’t sit around checking your Twitter …
In my quest to find anybody who cares about accuracy in the parenting media, I emailed an expert who studies experts not in the mommy realm but the political, world affairs arena. In other words, someone who spends quite a bit of time thinking about experts and how to assess …
Even experts get fooled by bogus statistics on occasion. Add an irrelevant equation to your next letter to the editor or email solicitation and you might impress someone who should know better thanks to the Nonsense Math Effect. A Swedish social psychologist and mathematician asked people with doctorates and master’s degrees in a variety of disciplines to read …