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With stat ickses showing that working men make more money than working women. Single straightforward, widely understanding. But dig a little deeper and everything lets more complicated. Comparing the very different jobs sometimes tough. Men and women of a similar age may have dissimilar numbers of working years because birth and child rearing falls differently. How do you fig it out . Melissa chan reports from san francisco. Reporter the law requires equal pay for equal work. And it will prohibit retallation against anyone who discloses and discusses his or her pay. We have pay laws on the boo...

Susan elliott morris, poster and data journalist, your new book is entitled, strength in numbers how polls work and why we need them. This title reflects your philosophy about polls. Why do you think polls really play an important part in our society . Elliott that is the question of the book. When i set out to write it, i started from a statistical perspective. I am a reporter, not a pollster. When you consider a lot of polling information, you started to notice that they get things wrong frequently. The average in polls is what we like to focus on when forecasting elections but more importan...

Susan elliott morris, poster and data journalist, your new book is entitled, strength in numbers how polls work and why we need them. This title reflects your philosophy about polls. Why do you think polls really play an important part in our society . Elliott that is the question of the book. When i set out to write it, i started from a statistical perspective. I am a reporter, not a pollster. When you consider a lot of polling information, you started to notice that they get things wrong frequently. The average in polls is what we like to focus on when forecasting elections but more importan...