Liberty Vittert

Liberty Vittert is a professor of the Practice of Data Science at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and an ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society. Follow her on Twitter @libertyvittert.

Liberty Vittert: As COVID deaths mount, greatest gift we can give our loved ones is to stay away

Opinion

December 23, 2020

Liberty Vittert: As COVID deaths mount, greatest gift we can give our loved ones is to stay away

With COVID-19 infections at a record high, the greatest gift the young can give to the old, children can give to parents, and grandkids can give to grandparents is the gift of distance, to avoid transmitting the coronavirus.

Liberty Vittert: US must end imports of Chinese products made with slave labor and protect oppressed Uighurs

Opinion

December 20, 2020

Liberty Vittert: US must end imports of Chinese products made with slave labor and protect oppressed Uighurs

Iconic companies are reportedly using slave labor in their Chinese factories, in a horrific violation of human rights — making a mockery of their carefully crafted images as socially conscious.

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2018, file photo, American flags are displayed together with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw in Beijing. China on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 accused critics in the U.S. government of "an escalation of political suppression" against Beijing following a report of new visa restrictions on members of China's ruling Communist Party and their immediate family members. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Opinion

December 4, 2020

Liberty Vittert: Biden should halt sales to China of US tech used to persecute and enslave Uighur Muslims

The Chinese Communist government is currently enslaving about 1 million Uighurs — members of a Muslim ethnic group — in “reeducation centers” that have been described as high-tech concentration camps.

Liberty Vittert: Trump is wrong — pollsters didn’t deliberately make inaccurate election forecasts

Opinion

November 5, 2020

Liberty Vittert: Trump is wrong — pollsters didn’t deliberately make inaccurate election forecasts

President Trump told reporters Thursday that pollsters very deliberately made false claims that Joe Biden had a big lead in the presidential race in order to suppress Trump votes and help Biden be elected president. As a statistician and polling expert, I have to respectfully disagree.