- Analysis: Don’t be fooled by high early US voting numbers | Early vote totals are historically not a good predictor of the outcome of the presidential race. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/19/analysis-the-trap-of-reading-too-much-into-early-vote-totals 32 comments politics
- According to ESPN's Cy Young predictor (via Bill James/Rob Neyer's algorithm), the AL award is now a hot race between Dallas Keuchel and...err...Shawn Tolleson. http://espn.go.com/mlb/features/cyyoung 52 comments baseball
- Slavery’s Long Shadow...“Within the United States, race is the single most important predictor of support for welfare. America’s troubled race relations are clearly a major reason for the absence of an American welfare state.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/opinion/paul-krugman-slaverys-long-shadow.html 6 comments politics
- The biggest predictor of how long you'll be unemployed is not food stamps, skills, gender, or race: it's bad luck. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-biggest-predictor-of-how-long-youll-be-unemployed-is-when-you-lose-your-job/ 5 comments politics
- No Rich Child Left Behind- Family Income now a better Predictor of Children's Success in School than Race. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/ 22 comments politics