LGBTfromAdvocate.com1 week agoPhiladelphia hospital slams Trump's DOJ, saying it 'reverse-engineered' claims about gender-affirming careThe Trump administration relied on dubious and unreliable data to justify attempting to seize minors' gender-affirming care medical records from CHOP.
fromFlowingData1 week agoLack of data during the shutdown, globally"The month-to-month data flow in the U.S. gets talked about but never is a decisive factor,"US politics
US politicsfromwww.aljazeera.com1 month agoFact check: Have US workers gained $500 in wages this year?Median full-time weekly earnings rose by $546 over six months, while the broader preferred measure shows about a $121 cumulative pay increase.
US politicsfromFortune2 months agoEven if you can't trust the data, these 13 warning signs will tell you the economy is in troubleRecent challenges to the reliability of U.S. government economic statistics have led to widespread skepticism about the health of the economy.
fromTheregister4 months agoChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atom bomb"The recent explosion in AI models has created concerns of contamination of data, akin to the low-background steel needed for sensitive equipment."Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister5 months agoHuman error and power glitches to blame for most outagesDatacenter outages are less frequent but human error persists, with 66-80% of major outages linked to human factors, challenging overall reliability.Tech industry
Privacy professionalsfromwww.npr.org6 months agoBrain drain at Census Bureau has employees warning about the country's statisticsThe Census Bureau faces serious challenges in maintaining statistical reliability amid staff departures and federal hiring freezes.