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Fox statistics professor offers alternative to improve NYT graphic of poverty data

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Forbes

New York Times' columnist Charles Blow recently used Census data to refute Newt Gingrich's claim that "really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works." Richard Heiberger, a statistics professor at Temple's Fox School of Business, worked with Forbes' contributor Naomi Robbins to redesign the Times' graphic of the data — improving its labeling, alignment and other features to "increase the effectiveness of the presentation and to illustrate that a good figure can lead directly to policy implications."