Month: August 2011

Identity, Israel

Kosher Stats 201: Taglit-Birthright Israel might not change interest in in-marriage for program participants who were raised secular or “just Jewish”

I’m going to try something a bit new here and take a close look at the data analyses from a single study. I chose this particular study, The Impact and Lessons of Taglit‐Birthright Israel by Saxe et al, because someone asked my opinion about it and I thought it did some things very well. I think the data supports some interesting findings, although it includes some all-to-common misinterpretations of statistical results.

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