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Cato Daily Podcast - Welfare Reform and Immigrant Outcomes
How has welfare reform impacted the fates of immigrants to the United States? David Bier parses the data.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
It is a commonly held belief that if women spend enough time together, their bodies start to communicate through chemical signals, known as pheromones. Eventually the women?s bodies will start to menstruate at the same time.
But where does this idea come from? And is it really true? We look at the evidence and wonder ? could it be down to chance?
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Irish Passports
Britons entitled to Irish passports After the Brexit vote in June, so many Britons applied for Irish passports that Ireland?s foreign minister had to ask them to stop ? pointing out that the UK remains, for now, in the EU. If some of the figures that have been quoted are correct, the Irish passport service may find itself completely inundated in future. But does one in four Britons really have Irish heritage? We reveal the dubious history of that number and attempt to estimate the number of Britons who are actually entitled to dual nationality with Ireland.
Do women?s periods sync? It is a commonly held belief that if women spend time together, their bodies start to sync and they will have their periods at the same time. But where does this idea come from? And is it really true? We look at the evidence and wonder ? could it be down to chance?
Numbers in music Marcus du Sautoy takes us on a journey through some of his favourite musical pieces, pointing out the interesting mathematical patterns hidden in the compositions.
Dangerous algorithms Cathy O?Neil, a data scientist and activist, has written a new book, ?Weapons of Math Destruction.? She is concerned about the proliferation of certain kinds of algorithms ? that help make important decisions, but that could be based on unfair statistics with hidden biases. She explains how to look out for them, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
Desk of Good News ? organ donations We look at the trends for organ donations and transplants.
Cato Daily Podcast - Paul Ryan’s Focus on Poverty amid Political Season
In a political season featuring divisive candidates, Paul Ryan has spent an inordinate amount of time promoting his own sketched out plans for reforming programs aimed at alleviating poverty. Michael Tanner comments.
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Cato Daily Podcast - A Doubling Down on ‘Trumpism’
Donald Trump's photo-op in Mexico has done nothing to obscure his insistence on both building a wall at the southern border and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Alex Nowrasteh comments.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Alabama’s Odd Regulation on Talking to the Government
Alabama requires both registration and an ethics course for anyone deemed a "lobbyist" by the state. Paul Sherman of the Institute for Justice is challenging the requirement.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Police ‘Pre-search’ and the Fourth Amendment
Baltimore police have engaged in large-scale surveillance without any authorization. The implications for policing are troubling. Jim Harper comments.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Death Penalty abolition
Statistics suggest that officially about half of the countries in the world have abolished Capital Punishment, and a further 52 have stopped its use in practice. But we tell the story behind the numbers and show why the picture is more complicated. We speak to Parvais Jabbar, co-director of the Death Penalty Project.
Cato Daily Podcast - The Missing American Jury
How has the role of the jury been diminished in American courts? Suja A. Thomas is author of The Missing American Jury.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Gender Pay Gap
The ?gender pay gap? This topic has been in the news this week after the Institute for Fiscal Studies published research showing women end up 33% worse off than their male counterparts after they have children. But earlier in the summer, Fraser Nelson wrote in the Telegraph that the pay gap is ?no longer an issue? for women born after 1975. Can both assessments be true? And could the label ?gender pay gap? be hindering our understanding of what really lies behind the numbers?
The cost of a hospital If a politician or commentator wants to underline just how wasteful a piece of expenditure is, a common strategy is to compare it to the number of hospitals you could build instead. Of course, hospitals are positive things ? we all want more, right? But just how much is a hospital? Is it really a useful unit of measurement? We speak to health economist John Appleby.
Corbyn Facts As Labour members begin voting on the party leadership, we investigate some of the claims made on the ?Corbyn Facts? website set up by Jeremy Corbyn?s campaign. Did he really give 122 speeches on the EU referendum during the campaign? Were this year?s local election results as good as Labour?s best performance under Ed Miliband? We look at what the numbers tell us.
Death Penalty abolition Statistics suggest that officially about half of the countries in the world have abolished Capital Punishment, and a further 52 have stopped its use in practice. But we tell the story behind the numbers and show why the picture is more complicated. We speak to Parvais Jabbar, co-director of the Death Penalty Project.
The Holiday Desk of Good News This week we outline a handful of statistics to make everyone feel better about the UK and their holidays.