I think this bog post offers a nice summary of common cognitive mistakes and blunders folks are prone to making.

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the Arbitration Fairness Act, here is the rationale for the proposed legislation (straight from the bill’s text):
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Federal Arbitration Act (now enacted as chapter 1 of title 9 of the United States Code) was intended to apply to disputes between [...]

For those folks interested in the the laws and regulations surrounding arbitration, you might want to track the progress of the Arbitration Fairness Act currently before Congress. Yesterday, Consumerist.com had “live blogging” coverage of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee’s hearing of S.1782, an Act to banish mandatory binding arbitration from consumer disputes. The transcript of their [...]

IBM’s ManyEyes application recently added the ability to display state-level data for the US and several other countries. It also can generate multiple maps, drawn side-by-side for comparison, from a dataset.
To illustrate, and mull over, here’s a state-by-state breakdown of Iraq war casualties.