The SDGOP pats itself on the back for turning out 43% of its voters for Tuesday’s primary. Yeah, historically notable, but still a majority of…
Tag: math
Guess who’s promoting the Big Lie about election fraud in South Dakota? Senator Al Novstrup. Former Cincinnati math and science teacher Douglas Frank is a…
Representative Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) is throwing his weight behind the seditious push of 27 Republican legislators to disenfranchise over 24 million voters in six…
I can finally put my SDSU math major and teaching degree to their fullest use: helping my eighth-grader with her algebra homework. But I also…
That online poll about Arabic numerals in Brookings Register showing the utter ignorance and likely bigotry of lots of respondents appears to be associated, alas, with…
The Brookings Register is messing with its online readers’ heads. As I scroll through their website, they throw me a poll asking, “Should schools in…
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development offers another example of how to cheat on the y-axis of a bar chart to exaggerate the size of…
The awful graph of the week comes from the Department of Revenue’s otherwise rock’em-sock’em first-of-its-kind statewide Tax Increment Financing Report. Check out this poorly proportioned…
Marty Jackley broke the petition-sampling table, so Shantel Krebs had to order a new one! Last Monday, our aspiringly gubernatorial Attorney General submitted his nominating…
Jeopardy Answer: Respect voters, balance the federal budget, and speak with moral consistency. Jeopardy Question: What are four things Republicans can’t do? Oh, oops! Now I’m…