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Monthly Archives: December 2010
2010, Homefront and Worldfront
On the “home front”, 2010 was a good year. In our third year of blogging (we started this blog in April 2008), we had more than 1,8 million pageviews (up from 1 million in 2009 and 193.000 in 2008). That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged capital punishment, immigration, justice, measurement, poverty, privacy, torture, transparency
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Human Rights Maps (113): Slavery in the U.S.
Between the 15th century and the end of the 19th, the transatlantic slave trade – also called the Middle Passage – moved millions of slaves from West Africa, West Central Africa, and Eastern Africa to the European colonies in the … Continue reading
Posted in data, freedom, globalization, human rights maps, international relations, trade, work
Tagged africa, african americans, history, human rights, map, maps, middle passage, number of slaves, slavery, transatlantic slave trade, u.s.
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Statistical Jokes (19): Accuracy of Forecasts
(source) More statistical jokes here.
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged accuracy, forecasts, graphs, humor, joke, Jokes
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Limiting Free Speech (42): Reporting the Names of Suspects and Defendants
(source) In many countries it’s quite common, and legal, to include some very specific information about suspects in crime reporting. Newspapers, television shows and websites publish the names, photographs and even addresses of people who are arrested on suspicion of a … Continue reading
Posted in justice, law, limiting free speech, photography and journalism, privacy
Tagged basic instincts, crime, criminal justice, crowd sourcing, fair trial, free speech, hate, media, open justice, reputation, voyeurism
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Nazism Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia
On the one hand, Nazism was clearly a utopian movement. It wanted to create a perfect world for the pure Aryan race, devoid of degenerating forces. In a sense, it was idealistic. It had an ideal view of humanity and … Continue reading
Posted in books, culture, horror, justice, law, philosophy, war
Tagged Adolf Hitler, antisemitism, George Steiner, hitler, idealism, jews, Judaism, morality, Nazi Germany, nazism, race, racism, The Portage to San Cristobal of AH, utopia
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Merry Christmas…
…and we’ll take a short holiday break. Daily posting will resume on Monday. In the meantime, you may enjoy (re)reading some of our old Christmas posts: About Christmas and torture. About Christmas and discrimination. About “killing Christmas“. Or, on second … Continue reading
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Measuring Human Rights (13): When More Means Less and Vice Versa
I’ve said it a few times before in this blog series: human rights violations can make it difficult to measure human rights violations, and can distort international comparisons of the levels of respect for human rights. Country A, which is … Continue reading
Posted in data, equality, international relations, measuring human rights, statistics
Tagged catch 22, israel, korea, mao zedong, measurement, measurement problems, media, news, quantitative analysis, quantitative approach, rights of human rights defenders, statistics, supply and demand, tocqueville, u.s.
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Capital Punishment (32): Use of Death Penalty Continues to Decline in the U.S.
Some fresh data for 2010: (source) More on capital punishment is here (more data are here). Related Articles Fewer Executions In 2010 (huffingtonpost.com) Death Penalty Use and Support Near Record Lows, Report Finds (time.com) Texas Embraces Alternatives to Death while … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, data, law
Tagged death penalty, death row, execution, life without parole, public opinion, statistics, u.s., United States
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Ngrams and Human Rights
You’ve probably already seen numerous examples of the new Google tool Ngram around the internet lately. It’s a tool that allows you to calculate the frequency of keywords in the millions of books available in Google’s collection. Such frequencies can … Continue reading
Posted in books, data, poverty, statistics
Tagged google, google books, google ngram, history, human rights, N-gram, ngrams, racism, universal declaration of human rights, World War II
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Human Rights Maps (112): Ethnic Cleansing of Jews by Nazi Germany
(source, map courtesy of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) (source) The title of the map below is: “Jewish Executions Carried Out by Einsatzgruppe A”, from the December 1941 Jager Report by the commander of a Nazi death squad. Marked “Secret … Continue reading
