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Statistics in News Reports According to a recent article published on The Chart, CNN.com's comprehensive medical blog authored by Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Elizabeth Cohen, the number of American children who fall victim to accidental death each year has plummeted during the last decade. The article, entitled Accidental Death Rate for Children Falls, details the dramatic decrease in the "death rate from unintentional injuries among children and adolescents from birth to age 19" (Gupta M.D. & Cohen, 2012), and provides a litany of statistical evidence to support this claim. As is always the case with the media's deployment of statistics, scientific records and other numerical support, a careful reader should avoid taking supposed facts and figures at face value without first subjecting the data to careful scrutiny. Until any statistical presentation can withstand the reader's rigorous examination,...

The author's assertion that the accidental death rate for children has "plunged almost 30% from 2000-2009" is directly attributed "to a Vital Signs report released Monday by the CDC" (Gupta M.D. & Cohen, 2012). By referencing statistics published within an official report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal agency operating under the auspices of the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services, the authors are firmly establishing the legitimacy of…

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Gupta M.D., S., & Cohen, E. (2012, April 16). [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/accidental-deaths-among-children- fall/?hpt=hp_t3

U.S. Department for Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012). Vital signs: Unintentional injury deaths among persons aged 0 -- 19 years -- United States, 2000 -- 2009. Retrieved from U.S. Government Printing Office website: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm61e0416a1.htm?s_cid=mm61e0416a 1_w
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