* How the screenwriter behind My Cousin Vinny got the idea for the movie. [ABA Journal
* One law school reported their graduates' employment rate to be 80.6% when it's actually 32.9%. Surely a typo. Funny how mistakes like this always tend to be in one's favor.
* Jurors in the Tyler Clementi/Dharun Ravi case say that digital evidence convinced them of Ravi's guilt. [NYTimes]
* Gawker headline commits a correlation-causation fallacy in assuming that because poor reading skills and poor health are correlated, that poor reading skills cause poor health. Perhaps a 3rd variable (low income?) is responsible for both. [Gawker]
* Human fossils hint at a new species. [BBC]
* One law school reported their graduates' employment rate to be 80.6% when it's actually 32.9%. Surely a typo. Funny how mistakes like this always tend to be in one's favor.
* Jurors in the Tyler Clementi/Dharun Ravi case say that digital evidence convinced them of Ravi's guilt. [NYTimes]
* Gawker headline commits a correlation-causation fallacy in assuming that because poor reading skills and poor health are correlated, that poor reading skills cause poor health. Perhaps a 3rd variable (low income?) is responsible for both. [Gawker]
* Human fossils hint at a new species. [BBC]
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