Standard Deviation

STATS monitors the media to expose the abuse of science and statistics before people are misled and public policy is distorted. Since 1994, STATS has sought to hold U.S. journalists to the highest standards of reporting accuracy, while providing them with concrete assistance to help them better understand the complexities and limitations of scientific and statistical material. The sites focus is on the following policy areas: education and child rearing, drug use and abuse, public health and disease, polls and surveys, gender issues, crime and defense.