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The Oxford comma: A Pressing issue?

Elitist, superfluous, Or popular? We polled Americans on the Oxford comma
By Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight, 17June 2014

A grammatical point of controversy: should you use a comma before the "and" in a list of more than two items? The example used in the article is:

We which sentence was, in their opinion, more grammatically correct: “It’s important for a person to be honest, kind and loyal.” Or: “It’s important for a person to be honest, kind, and loyal.” The latter has an Oxford comma, the former none.

1,129 Americans

Submitted by Paul Alper

Reproducibility

When studies are wrong: A coda
by George Johnson, New York Times, 7 March 2014

Submitted by Bill Peterson

Finding lost aircraft

How statisticians found Air France Flight 447 two years after it crashed into Atlantic
MIT Technology Review, 27 May 2014

How statisticians could help find that missing plane, by Carl Bialik, FiveThirtyEight, 17 March 2014

Missing Malaysia Airlines jet shines spotlight on tracking technology

Submitted by Jeanne Aolbert