Cats: Dogs: (Apologies Greg, I just needed to beat you to the punch.)
Daily Archive: September 26, 2009
Sep 26 2009
Nate Silver calls out Pollster on cooking polls
Pro-Republican company Strategic Vision, owners of the polling data firm Pollster, has long been suspected of fraudulently cooking polls to make its clients (the Republican party, primarily) look good. Nate Silver over at Five Thirty-Eight might have just put together sufficient mathematical proof via humans’ “gambler’s fallacy” to take them to task for it. The …
Sep 26 2009
A Glorious Dawn
Carl Sagan, when autotuned, sounds slightly more like Kermit the Frog than usual, but this was still inspired and beautiful. Also features Stephen Hawking. By the by, laptop speakers do not do this song justice.










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