I was reading Kevin Burke’s post today on the relationship between political affiliation and charitable giving, and thought it was a great example of “collective statistical intelligence“. In the post Kevin does a set of correlations between political affiliation and a generosity index then posts the results.
While the post was fascinating and [...]
Continue Reading →I came across an article that appeared in the New York Times called “Bleeding Heart Tightwads” by Nicholas D. Kristof. Kristof, a liberal, goes on to say that liberals tend to be stingy when it comes to giving to charity. I found it to be very interesting and also contradictory to what I originally [...]
Continue Reading →In Washington, D.C. it is not uncommon to see people pulled over for speeding. You might have even been one of the unlucky who has been caught by one of several speed detectors throughout DC. If you haven’t the next time you are at a intersection, K Street and 17th for instance, and [...]
Continue Reading →In news of the weird the Wall Street Journal ran a piece last week about a Russian’s professor’s prediction that the United States will fall into civil war and segment into six countries by July 2010. While an off the wall prediction it is interesting to see how the former Russian KBG analyst demographically and [...]
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