This year, California will spend three times as much operating its prisons than running the UC system.
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The Stanford Prison experiment was a very famous -- now infamous -- experiment in social psychology that was conducted in 1971 by Dr.
I see that Hank's still touting his "Padian found ZERO seroconversions among 176 discordant heterosexual couples over 6 years" line, even after that study was extensively analyzed
The Kansas Republican Party is in disarray
Here are your disturbing prison facts for the day:
Percentage of American adults held in either prison or mental institutions in 1953 and today, respectively: 0.67, 0.68
Percentage of these adults in 1953 who were in mental institutions: 75
A factoid is "something that sounds like a fact, is thought by many to be a fact (perhaps because it is repeated so often), but is not in fact a fact."
(From The Economist Style Guide.)
"Factoid" meaning a phony fact was coined by Norman Mailer, who used it in his biography of Marilyn Monroe to describe the studio system's technique of creating false histories for Hollywood stars. The current most prevalent meaning is the precise opposite- a perhaps trivial but interesting fact. This meaning was popularized by CNN. It's not surprising that a TV network denatured the meaning of a word that has value in understanding how media works.
With all due respect to the Economist, my (American) dictionary defines a factoid as a "brief or trivial item of news or information". Perhaps this difference in semantics is one of those minor Anglo-American differences, like theatre vs theater.
Prisoners don't pay out-of-state tuition. You could probably reverse this trend if Calfornia stopped feeding their prisoners.
Maybe "factoid" and "factoid" are homonyms. Yeah! That's it!