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Social Math

Social Math for Climate Change: Young People Have Never Experienced a Colder than Average Month

by Shannon Arvizu November 19, 2012 Framer Reads the News

With Hurricane Sandy slowing fading from the media’s limited attention span, it is time for advocates to “widen the lens” and tell a more persistent and compelling story about the effects of climate change. One way to do this is to use social math. Grist.org has a great social math example  based on the latest [...]

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How to Connect Extreme Weather to Climate Change? Use Social Math

by Shannon Arvizu June 21, 2012 Framer Reads the News

“No longer is global warming an abstract concept, affecting faraway species, distant lands or generations far in the future. Instead, climate change becomes personal. Its hand can be seen in the corn crop of a Maryland farmer ruined when soaring temperatures shut down pollination or the $13 billion in damage in Nashville, with the Grand [...]

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Translating Facts into Meaning: Infographics Gone Wrong

by Tia Remington-Bell June 10, 2011 Social Math

Communicating the “facts” doesn’t always have to be in writing. Infographics can be a great way to visually apply social math to real world situations. By placing the less familiar aspects of an issue within a recognizable context, we can greatly enhance public understanding of important social issues. Sometimes, however, the message gets lost in [...]

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Social Math-ing the Tax Cuts

by Lynn Davey December 9, 2010 Social Math

From the New York Times 12/5/10. (click on the image to open a larger version in another tab) Thanks to our colleague Wendy Frosh for passing this along to us this week. As I perused the list, what struck me is how easy to think some of these analogies are, but how difficult some others [...]

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Reading for Social Math

by Susan Bales October 14, 2010 Social Math

Here are three great examples of social math from a casual Sunday’s read in my local paper, the September 26, 2010 edition of the Washington Post. Example #1: Economic Inequality For two generations after World War II, a blue-collar man could support his family; buy a house, car and washing machine; and send his kids to [...]

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