Gordon Reikard explains how research and development once dominated the contributions to technological advance and how information technology has become a greater influence in the last few decades.
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Putting Americans to Work: The Essential Role of Federal Labor Market Statistics
Andrew Reamer provides practical steps to address disconnections between labor market demand and supply that add to unemployment, underemployment, and unfilled jobs.
Reproducible Research
This month’s guest editors, Keith A. Baggerly and Donald A. Berry, make the case that journals have a key role to play in making research reproducible. Their call comes in the aftermath of attempts to reproduce the cancer research results of Duke’s Anil Potti and Joseph Nevins, whose seemingly promising 2006 work led to three clinical trials.
A Category 5 Storm … Headed Our Way
Norman R. Augustine is this month’s science policy guest columnist. Augustine chaired the National Academies committee that wrote the enormously influential 2005 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm. In this piece, Augustine provides a commentary on the U.S. competitiveness challenges.
Members Affect ASA Science Policy
In his column this month, ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson explains to ASA members how the process for ASA science policy action works.
Statistical Significance
“GIVE to ASA” is my mantra for the year. That’s a G for Growth, an I for Impact, a V for Visibility, and an E for Education.
Science and Statistical Agencies Fare Well in 2011 Budget Request
In his column this month, ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson urges ASA members to communicate their support for the 2011 budget increases for several federal statistical agencies.
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Statistics in Defense and National Security: Lessons in Outreach to Policymakers
For this month’s column, ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson invited representatives from the ASA’s Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security to be his guest authors. Members of this section have made outreach to policymakers an integral part of their activities, with significant strides. Here, they share their progress to date and their plans for the future.
Congressional Visits: A Boost to ASA Science Policy
Sixty ASA members recently took President Sally Morton’s advice to heed the call to action set forth by the Obama Administration when they spent the last day of JSM on the Hill advocating for statistical literacy and funding. They reported that their audiences were receptive to the ASA’s message, thereby opening the door for the ASA to realize its advocacy requests through sustained follow-up.