How not to report on inflation September 8, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Cognitive biases on prices obscure the big picture on food costs
Audit Notes: Twitter math, guard labor, M&A and oligopoly February 18, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Newsweek and stock valuations
NYT hasn’t been hit that hard February 7, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Parsing the numbers with Quartz and the WSJ
Credulous press for a report on abuse of female journalists December 6, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Reporters overlook statistical problems in passing on eye-popping numbers
Daily Beast doubles down on Big Mac minimum wage nonsense August 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Extrapolations collide with hard numbers
A Big Mac miss by The Huffington Post July 31, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Poor reporting on a "study" by a Kansas undergrad
No, it’s not another housing bubble May 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Hysteria in pockets of the press over a long-awaited recovery
Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists November 6, 2012 By Ryan Chittum French publishing’s online revenues make the Americans look good
Audit Notes: blame the borrowers, Walmart cashiers, newspaper prices September 5, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Democratic Party platform on mortgage issues
WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’ August 24, 2012 By Ryan Chittum A mess of a story on Facebook
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED) August 20, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Microsoft’s 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation August 17, 2012 By Ryan Chittum When prices matter and when they don’t
The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan August 16, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Bogus numbers and rewritten history
A Zombie Lie Is Born March 11, 2011 By Ryan Chittum CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide
CNBC Misleads on "Welfare State" Dominance March 9, 2011 By Ryan Chittum Bad math overstates government payouts
WSJ Slips Up on a Union Story February 24, 2011 By Ryan Chittum And its misses tilt toward the anti-labor side