This roundup summarises the most important news stories around the world in the last two weeks (November 12 to 25, 2019).
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda.
“Reluctant Editor”: More answers, but even more questions
Whereas Cheong Yip Seng’s “OB Markers: My Straits Times Story” was a more extensive account of “The Straits Times” (ST) – from the perspective of its former editor-in-chief – P. N. Balji offers a more succinct account of his stints as chief editor of “The New Paper” (TNP) and “TODAY”. His interesting editorial, journalistic, and political nuggets which shed light on the five different newspaper newsrooms of which he was a part were made even more readable by the fact that “Reluctant Editor” is explicitly not a self-aggrandising memoir.
“The relationship among screen use, sleep, and emotional / behavioural difficulties in preschool children with neurodevelopmental disorders”: Generalisability and external validity
Whereas TODAY ran with the headline “Children exposed to digital devices at an early age may have emotional and behavioural difficulties” (TODAY, Nov. 12) – summarising a research study which sought to understand the relationship between screen use, sleep, and emotional or behavioural difficulties (EBDs) – the actual publication specified that the sample was pre-school children with neuro-developmental disorders (NDDs), not Singaporean children in general.
Less millennial financial security? Recall bias and the comparability of findings
In comparing two groups of Singaporeans – 311 millennials aged between 19 and 35 and 200 individuals aged between 60 and 69 (born between 1950 and 1959, thus part of the Merdeka Generation) – the focus of the research was on perceptions of life as a young Singaporean. In other words, the millennials were asked to reflect on their current life in the country today, whereas those belonging to the Merdeka Generation were asked to reflect on their life as a millennial during the 1970s and 1980s.
November 11 roundup: The fall of political leaders
This roundup summarises the most important news stories around the world in the last two weeks (October 29 to November 11, 2019).
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