August 7th, 1978
Determination 33: Prof. Ronald Jacobson v. Minneapolis Tribune
Ronald L. Jacobson, assistant professor of neurology and biometry at the University of Minnesota, complained that the newspaper used unsound methodology in presenting the results of a survey on university students’ attitudes toward abortion. He complained that the paper’s claim that the survey results were representative of the entire university student population was statistically invalid. The resulting article, he said, was therefore inaccurate and misleading.