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...data, the answer is not nearly so simple. The wording and framing of the survey question can have a decisive impact on the results, so much so that alternative polls demonstrate the exact opposite of Basham’s findings: namely, that the majority of high-achieving males would prefer to stay at home if money allowed and that most mothers married to men with annual earnings of over $120,000 remain in the workforce, in spite of their financial freedom. More damagingly, Basham confuses the distinction between correlation and causation: women’s stated desire to revert...
...bureaucratic hoops” to be able to live with his female blockmates his sophomore year. He finds fault with the current gender neutral housing policy. “I think it’s wrong to assume that you must be questioning your gender in order to prefer living with men or women, or for that preference to be okay only in the case of being transgender,” he says. “[The policy] should definitely be more inclusive...
...President Obama has stated that in place of “military commissions”—controversial bodies that have flouted habeas corpus and other legal principles—he would prefer prosecutions for detainees in U.S. federal courts or in the regular military justice system. But this preference is not a substitute for firm policy: The use of military commissions should be explicitly and permanently forbidden, and, at some point, someone must be held accountable for the unconstitutional use of such kangaroo courts by the Bush administration...
...Rather than a stenographer, Pooley would prefer to see the media adopt the position of an "honest referee - keeping score, throwing flags when a team plays fast and loose with the facts, explaining to the audience what's happening on the field and why." In an issue as complex as climate change, the country badly needs smart, fair umpires, and the media can play that role. But the wave of cutbacks and closings that have hit the American media could make that all but impossible. Referees need to know the game cold, and climate change demands...
...most powerful political factions in Iraq would prefer to see U.S. forces leave sooner rather than later. Maliki's Shi'ite-dominated government and security forces have faced down their biggest foe, the Mahdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. And Sadr's movement, which remains a political force in Iraq, was the first of the Shi'ite groups to agitate for a U.S. withdrawal. Only two camps in Iraq remain uneasy about seeing U.S. troops move offstage over the next 18 months - the minority Sunnis, who remain fearful of a revival of sectarian violence against them...