Posts tagged as Statistics
Reagan Proven Much More Awesome at Fixing America Than Obama
"How do conditions compare locally to when the Reagan administration was asking for a second term. Statistically, have we seen the same kind of recovery from the 2007-to-2009 recession as we did from the 1980-to-1982 recession? Not to ruin the suspense, but the charts below suggest the answer is 'no.' The Miami area enjoyed a much more robust recovery at the end of the Reagan first term than it has under the Obama first term." READ MORE
America's Most Gay-Coupled Cities, Not Gayest Cities
A note on math: running the numbers on the prevalence of same-sex households in cities is not the same as doing the math on the "gayest cities." You're actually discovering the cities that have the most... same-sex households, resting as this premise does on the assumption that "it's probably a good bet that metro areas with relatively high proportions of same-sex couples will also have relatively high proportions of visible LGBT people, single and coupled." It might not be, you know! Cities with bigger populations of gays (particularly gay men, hmm?) might actually find fewer same-sex abodes. [N.B. Data preliminary: we have yet to see the full influence of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality!) on gays, of course.]
1 In 5 Americans Still Cool
"One in five Americans smoked last year, down from almost one in four a decade earlier. But the declines in smoking have recently stalled, with virtually no change in smoking rates since 2004 and even a hint of an increase last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting. Some 20.6 percent of Americans were current smokers in 2008, barely down from 20.9 percent in 2004, according to the Nov. 19 issue of the C.D.C.'s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report." I know I'm doing my part, what about you guys?
Science: Liberals Love Brie! Conservatives Love Garbage!
The facts are in from Hunch: liberals eat arugula, "bistro-type" frites and brie; conservatives like iceburg lettuce, Velveeta and "meat, and lots of it" on their pizza.
U.S. Job Losses By Geography
From Flowing Data comes this map of job losses. (The above represents June of 2009.) It's fun to go back to 2004 and watch all the nice green job creation bubbles turn red and DIE. (Also the Katrina explosion is fascinating.) And I don't know, we are reelecting the corporate gift-giving mayor of New York City for what reason, now?
Manny Ramirez Slugs His Way Into History Books
Last night in Los Angeles, Manny Ramirez hit a grand slam that helped his team to victory. But the significance of the dinger was not just about wins and losses. No, this was a historic event: "The four runs Ramirez drove in with that single stroke in his pinch-hit at-bat did more than break a sixth-inning tie and send the Dodgers on their way to a 6-2, sweep-sealing victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The home run off reliever Nick Masset, the first long ball ever hit by a Dodger on his bobblehead night, turned the ballpark into a madhouse."
Unemployment: Get Ready To Get Fired!
"The unemployment rate is projected to continue rising for another year before topping out in double digits... Analysts say the high levels of joblessness would be accompanied by increases in child poverty, strained government budgets, and black and Latino unemployment rates approaching 20 percent." (The African-American unemployment rate is already 15% nation-wide, by the way.) READ MORE
