Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores
Commenter Bob provided a link to a nice chart showing us where bars outnumber grocery stores.
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How Culturally Isolated are you?
Via DarwinCatholic, How Thick is Your Bubble?
How Thick Is Your Bubble?
Guest Score » 10 out of 20 (50% )
Result
On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you
The New American Divide
Charles Murray is taking a tour of the opinion pages, stumping for his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. I've been looking forward to this book for some time now. Murray is arguing that Americans of all classes used to share a common civic
An exception
An exception to the rule of thumb that most social statistics get better as you get closer to the Canadian border.
Percentage of adults who admit binge drinking
The Copiale Cipher
In an oft-cited letter in 1947 to the mathematician Norbert Wiener, he wrote: “One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: ‘This is really written in English, but it has been
American Povery Rate Halved After WWII
That’s what happened from 1949 to 1961. We didn’t know it at the time, but the numbers have been calculated retrospectively, using the 1950 census to determine the poverty rate in 1949—it was 41 percent. In President Kennedy’s first year in office, 1961, it was 21
Taking me to task
The Family Social Scientist takes me to task in the comments on my post on Decision Fatigue:
while this is an interesting quirk of the data and warrants further exploration, its hardly conclusive . To say that the marshmallow test is "known to predict future success in life" is