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By David Houston Clarke, University College

PULLMAN, Wash. - Robby Rosenman, Washington State University professor of economics, will make a free, public presentation, "Statistical Hypothesis Inference Testing: What Are We Learning for Policy Making?” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Smith CUE 203. 

 

The Common Reading Tuesdays series lecture will look at the use and misuse of statistics for making policy.

 

"People tend to take things as true because they don’t have any facts that they are false,” Rosenman said. "It follows that policy is based not on what is known to be true, but on what has not been proven false.”

 

In his lecture, Rosenman will consider these ideas and discuss whether policymakers should turn to a preponderance of such truths when making decisions. He will lead the audience through examples to make his points clear.

 

Rosenman has been at WSU since 1983. He received the 2012 Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award in the leadership category. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Minnesota in 1982.

 

The Common Reading Program is a part of the University College at WSU. Common Reading Tuesdays is a weekly lecture series featuring faculty and other experts on topics related to the year’s common reading book, which is used in many first-year classes on the Pullman campus.

 

The 2011-12 book, "Physics for Future Presidents,” is by University of California-Berkeley retired professor Richard A. Muller, who visited WSU Pullman in September to present the annual invited lecture.

 

For more information, visit http://CommonReading.wsu.edu.

 

Contacts:
Karen Weathermon, WSU Common Reading Program, 509-335-5488, kweathermon@wsu.edu
David Clarke, WSU University College, 509-335-8070, david.h.clarke@email.wsu.edu

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