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Harvard Business Review
One simple way to get better at reading data
Statistics professor Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and business analytics professor Jeffrey Camm write: "As we've evolved from analytics to data science to AI, the world has never been more data-driven. We believe it is always a good idea to question the data. When percentages are used, it is imperative that important information is not masked by the statistics. Ask for percentages and absolutes to both be discussed. Clarity comes by asking, “What’s the denominator?” If you want to know how effective something is, it needs to be in the denominator.
May 23, 2025
Character & Context Blog for The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
"Stressful situations are complicated and often just plain hard. It doesn’t mean that people should ignore the negative, or act like things are fine when they are not. But it does mean that, even in the middle of stress, uncertainty and loss, there may be glimmers of good. When people take the time to notice and reflect on those bright spots, they may feel a little better just when they need it most," writes psychology professor Christian Waugh.
May 23, 2025
The Bookseller
Still here, still queer… but getting squeezed out
A recent study from economics professors, Tin Cheuk Leung and Koleman S. Strumpf, argued that LGBTQ+ authors are paid less than straight authors, even when they sell more books, according to examined advances and royalty payments from the US “Big Five” publishers.
May 23, 2025
APM Marketplace
Why it makes sense to get rid of the penny
Economics professor Robert Whaples analyzed transaction data from a convenience store chain located in multiple states, including Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. "If you took into account taxes and transactions involving multiple purchases, and then rounded to the nearest nickel, you would have to round down just as much as you round up," Whaples said.
May 22, 2025
Money
Trump’s coin toss: What’s going to happen when the U.S. scraps pennies?
In most places that have eliminated small-denomination coins, cash transactions are rounded to the nearest 5-cent increment. (Cashless transactions are still calculated to the cent.) Some people in favor of keeping pennies argue that consumers would lose out because all of the prices that currently end in nine would be rounded up by a penny. A 2007 study dispelled that concern. Economics professor Robert Whaples found that the odds of rounding up or rounding down are about as even as, well, a coin toss.
May 22, 2025
Winston-Salem Chronicle
Nearly 4,000 graduating from WS/FCS this week
Those attending graduation ceremonies at the LJVM Coliseum or Fairgrounds Arena will likely encounter heavier traffic than normal, road closures and rerouting. The City of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University are constructing new buildings and demolishing old ones along Deacon Boulevard for the development of “The Grounds,” a 100-acre mixed-use development.
May 22, 2025
Yahoo
Germany’s Friedrich Merz will have a hard time freeing the country from its self-imposed shackles
"Chancellor Merz’s plans to revitalize Germany’s military and infrastructure could be seriously undermined by domestic forces – both within and outside of his coalition. It runs up against long-standing German norms and ideologies that threaten to hamper the state’s capacity and the government’s ability to act decisively," writes politics and international affairs professor Mark Vail. This article was originally published in The Conversation.
May 20, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Journalist Scott Pelley urges Wake Forest graduates to protect democracy and freedom of expression
CBS journalist Scott Pelley urged more than 2,000 graduates to protect democracy and freedom of expression in the United States. “I’m a reporter, so I won’t bury the lead,” Pelley said. “Your country needs you.” Pelley delivered the commencement speech at the University’s graduation ceremony on Hearn Plaza. He has worked as a reporter for “60 Minutes” for more than 20 years.
May 20, 2025
The Hechinger Report
Professor of the Practice of Management & Executive Director, Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character Pat Sweeney's research suggests younger people do see work differently. Sweeney teaches a course called Foundations of Leadership to undergraduates. He hears executives grouse that Gen Zers have “to earn their stripes” before being listened to. He pushes back. “It is not like we are treating them like snowflakes,” he said. “If we can provide them the flexibility and we can set boundaries where they do have a work-life balance, we’ll probably get the best out of them and they’ll stay on our team.”
May 20, 2025
Gale.com
Setting ethical boundaries around facial recognition technology
As Lauren Rhue, assistant professor of information systems and analytics at Wake Forest University School of Business, explains, “There is good reason to believe that the use of facial recognition could formalize preexisting stereotypes into algorithms, automatically embedding them into everyday life.”
May 20, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
NOAA shuts down disaster database as hurricane season nears, raising risks for Triad
Tracking the impacts of such events has, in part, relied on federal resources like NOAA’s Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, which is now scheduled to stop receiving updates after 2024. “This is part of a disturbing pattern. Public information sources that provide objective information for analysts are being shut down,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University.
May 20, 2025
Good Faith Media
The festival of homiletics believes preaching can heal the divide
Reverend Melva L. Sampson, assistant teaching professor in the practice of preaching and practical theology at Wake Forest School of Divinity, gathered hearers in the sanctuary where she told them, “Don’t shrink back.”
May 19, 2025