Human Rights Watch Open Meeting Today: It Doesn't Add Up: Human Rights Monitoring and the Numbers
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Human Rights Watch Open Meeting Today: It Doesn't Add Up: Human Rights Monitoring and the Numbers
 
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Sorry for the short notice.
I just opened this email a few minutes
ago. This is TODAY at 11:30 Eastern Time. You can listen on
your phone.
This is an area where SPSS skills would be very useful Art Kendall -------- Original Message --------
Art, it was good to see you last week. I think the attached announcement may be of particular interest to you, both a statistician and human rights activist. I plan on dialing in and listening if I can free my morning. Sam <snip>
Please
join
us on Wednesday, January 27 from 11:30am-1:00pm for
the Human Rights Watch Open Meeting. The meeting will be held in our NY
office
on the 34th floor of the Empire State Building and will
feature the
following presentation: Please
RSVP
to [hidden email] if you plan to
attend. We have new security measures in place at the Empire State
Building and
we need to register all our visitors at the front desk. You will need
to sign
in at the visitor reception desk and obtain a day pass. Wednesday,
January
27,
2010 11:30am
-1:00pm Open
Meeting 34th
Floor Conference Room It
Doesn't Add Up:
Human Rights Monitoring and the Numbers Human
rights monitoring consists primarily of receiving information from
witnesses
and by conducting investigations. The resulting information is often
stored in databases. However, the statistics generated from databases
collected
in this way may tell us more about the functioning of the organization
doing
the monitoring than about the violence being monitored. Using examples
from
Guatemala, El Salvador, Kosovo, Colombia, Timor-Leste, and Sierra
Leone,
Patrick Ball will explain how statistics produced from data collected
by
non-random sampling can be fundamentally incorrect. He will also show
how
reliable statistics can be produced using multiple independent
databases or a
random sample of respondents. Please
join us to hear how numbers can support---or undermine---human rights
reporting. Patrick
Ball, Ph.D., is the Vice President for Human Rights Programs at the
Benetech
Initiative. Since 1991, Dr. Ball has designed information management
systems
and conducted statistical analysis for large-scale human rights data
projects
used by truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, tribunals
and United
Nations missions in El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, South
Africa,
Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Perú, Timor-Leste, Liberia and Chad.
Dr. Ball
is currently involved in Benetech projects in Colombia, Burma, Congo
and in
other countries around the world. To
dial into
this meeting please call
212-216-1274 or if using Skype only 1-888-800-0567, and enter
code
553401 when prompted. Please
remember
to mute your line with *2. If
you
would like to add someone to our Open Meeting invitation list, please
e-mail [hidden email]
Art Kendall
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Re: Human Rights Watch Open Meeting Today: It Doesn't Add Up: Human Rights Monitoring and the Numbers
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Art Kendall wrote:
> Sorry for the short notice. I just opened this email a few minutes ago. > This is TODAY at *11:30 Eastern Time*. You can listen on your phone. > > This is an area where SPSS skills would be very useful > > Art Kendall > > Human Rights Watch Open Meeting Today: It Doesn't Add Up: Human Rights > Monitoring and the Numbers.eml > > Subject: > Human Rights Watch Open Meeting Today: It Doesn't Add Up: Human Rights > Monitoring and the Numbers > From: > "Dahlia El Zein" <[hidden email]> > Date: > Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:25:30 -0500 > > To: > "Dahlia El Zein" <[hidden email]> > > > Please join us on *Wednesday, January 27 * from *11:30am-1:00pm* for the > Human Rights Watch Open Meeting. The meeting will be held in our NY > office on the 34^th floor of the Empire State Building and will feature > the following presentation: Some of you already know this, but there is a committee in the American Statistical Association promoting pro bono statistical consulting for problems just like these. The name of the group is "Statistics Without Borders". It has a Facebook page * http://www.facebook.com/pages/Statistics-without-Borders/118114963213 and a listserv (send an email to Gary Shapiro, [hidden email]). There is a nice description of this group in the Winter 2010 (volume 27, issue 1) newsletter of the Statistical Consulting Section of the ASA. * www.amstat.org/sections/cnsl/newsletter/pdf_archive/vol27no1.pdf -- Steve Simon, Standard Disclaimer Sign up for The Monthly Mean, the newsletter that dares to call itself "average" at www.pmean.com/news ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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