Located 698 results from search term 'statistics'
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Commented in Instagram fined €405m by Irish regulator
That's not really gonna hurt them according to this link.
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Commented in The death of Internet Explorer: Good riddance to bad rubbish
Up to today my website still has to use scripts to accomodate Internet Explorer users, because the browser renders pages way different than other browsers. That was the case from the beginning since I began dabbling in web design (somewhere 1995), eventhough there was and is a very good set of standards set by the W3C, Internet Explorer always seem to wreck cool designs and functionality, made according to those standards.
In the statistics of my webserver I hardly see any Explorer users, so I could actually delete all that scripting to "help" Explorer users? Or should I keep it for that absolute minority?
I am just as pleased as the author of the nice and good article that this piece of shit software will be gone (for good?).
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Commented in Exclusive: China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
8% of the userbase is from the US, which is a lot in people's numbers (165 million downloads to date), but looking at it percentage-wise it is not that hard to overcome an eventual deleting or banning of the US from its' users. Maybe it's a good thing for software developers (and other makers) to just skip the US market at all. Not as a boycott, but as a means of logistics and economics: it saves a lot of time and money not to invest in the US. And it prevents political shenanigans like this one.
4% of the world population is American, which leaves 96% of the world open for adventure and entrepreneurship. :-) -
Commented in Western allies should stand up for Georgia against Russia | Letters
Maybe Georgia shouldn't invade Russia so often. I mean, fun is fun, and all. Still, if you don't want your nose bloodied, don't invade Russia.
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Commented in The Unemployment Rate Is Meaningless. Here’s What You Should Look at Instead.
Thanks for a very informative article. I’ve heard for years that there is a major discrepancy between what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports about unemployment and the “real” unemployment rate.
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Commented in Meet the 11% of Americans who don’t use the internet
Thanks for a very informative article. I never realized that there were other people besides my parents who do not like or use the Internet. The statistics in the article are also quite interesting.
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Commented in Russian trolls tweeted 18,000 times on Oct. 6, 2016
Gosh. That’s so many! Out of the literally five hundred million tweets per day on average, that’s, like, a third of a percent of a percent. Checkmate, people that thought the most despised presidential candidate ever stealing the nomination from the most popular politician in America, only to then lose to the second-most despised presidential candidate ever, was a bad move.
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Commented in The $1.4 Trillion U.S. ‘Surplus’ That Trump’s Not Talking About
Are you questioning the Department of Made Up Statistics?
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Commented in The $1.4 Trillion U.S. ‘Surplus’ That Trump’s Not Talking About
So a fruit based handset manufacturing subsidiary in China, selling to Chinese, paying only Chinese taxes, using transfer pricing to move money around, now counts as US trade (for the purposes of this "research").
This sounds like something from the Department of Made Up Statistics. Much like "aggregate sales surplus".
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Commented in Toys R Us blames bankruptcy on millennials not having kids
Ummm.... have Toys R Us heard of demographics? They could have been watching carefully and responding to changes in birth rate statistics, etc etc. This could have led them to make some changes earlier on and maybe downsize or specialize (in certain types of toys), instead of having to go bankrupt.
The other issue they had was a rather poor online ordering system with very little data privacy, which did not evolve as well over the years as competitors like Target, Walmart or Amazon. Thus, I bet they lost a lot of potential online profits from people who could have shopped online at ToysRUS but instead shopped at one of the other stores. They are a good store, but unlike Target or Walmart they just didn't move with the times.
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Commented in Why Scientists Think a Tax on Junk Food is a Splendid Idea
There does not seem to be a lot of statistics out there to show a correlation between sin taxes and reduced consumption.
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Commented in The Making of an American Nazi
It's the inescapable Gypsy curse of 'security' reporting like this, its stock in trade is fear. Fear is what draws its attention to a subject like this, and fear is what it uses to keep your attention. Ultimately it often may not make any more sense, either.
That's an incredible point, imo. I mean, media in its current form greatly benefits from added fear, as their most meaningful measurement for 'success' is how many clicks they get. Fear is one of the things most successful in that area. Like his point in the video you linked: twitter groups by white nationalists have grown since 2012 by 600%. Active twitter users have pretty much doubled in that same amount of time, but what's more, the Daily Stormer didn't even exist then! (let alone the fact that report after report finds out just how many bots are used on twitter to boost numbers & retweets, so this is fairly meaningless as far as utility for measuring political thought). As for
Their persecution fantasies double as their excuse for persecuting others. If there is some 'conversation' that has belittled them, rather than oh say for instance they're angry insecure and troubled, I'd be curious what that is. Because if it's women and people to the political left of literally Hitler, that's nonsense. Talk about a culture of victimhood, eesh.
I'm not entirely sure how to reconcile that train of thought, which I think is spot-on, with another post you made, in which they show that for quite some people it might just be about finding a group, no matter how twisted the thoughts of those members.
Besides that his argument in the video is, like you said, about decreasing anonymity in order to decrease hate. Which is a bit silly. "They grew in the shadows for years" as if the FBI isn't on top of pretty much any 4chan/8ch thread that slightly veers into dangerous territory. I mean the technology already exists, and having conversations out in the open at least allows you to follow what's happening. The Charlottesville riots were discussed openly. If things like this were cracked down upon I think they would just move to private IRC channels, to telegram groups (if those are actually secure, no one knows), and be completely out of sight. But the end effect might still be the same. I don't know, because on top of conflicting thoughts this is also happening in another country, so I'm sure I'm missing a tad of context.
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Commented in Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions
It's a trick question. The question asks for a prejudiced answer ascribing behavior on the basis of race. There's no answer that isn't racist. Your link is broken, but there's Racism-with-the-capital-R deep in the grain of that as well. Those statistics are based on convictions by a justice system not much removed from the time of the plantation overseers. Critics could, rightly, point out that a not-insignificant part of those statistics will be down to the Racism of the poverty-to-prison system that yields them. Crime statistics are awfully murky things anyway to use to extrapolate out broad-brush assertions like "blacks are more violent in the U.S compared to other races."
Mind you, I know you're from Philly and I'm not going to tell you how the world is any more than I would tell someone from Detroit, or Atlanta, or anywhere else. Will say, though, poverty would be a better basis on which to consider violence than race. You can't win for losing.
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Commented in Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions
This is an older study from 2013 I thought had some interesting statistics relevant for today. You're right about agenda corraling research, I assume quantifying biases in any demographic probably can only yield subjective conclusions no matter the "explanatory variables, logistic regressions" considered. Most of the authors are from Australia and they never understand USA gun obsessions or whatever and anyway, the study found "paradoxical attitudes" among US whites so what are we really supposed to think? Thank you for your thoughtful response btw, was hoping for a discussion, this Vegas thing has me really distraught, to say the least, I can't make any sense of it. Maybe I'm searching for answers in all the wrong places...
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Commented in Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions
By your statistics then black men might be more violent but black women, not so much. You'd also have to look at how this went in other countries.
I have seen several videos where the police react to black men openly carrying guns in the US. It didn't go well for the black men. It appears that the second amendment mainly applies to white people.
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Commented in Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions
This is an interesting interactive forum.....for instance this was a question from a reader:
"The question "How well does the word 'violent' describe most blacks?" was asked, with lower scores indicating racism. However, this question implies that it is asking about how well the word 'violent' describes blacks compared to other races, such as whites, asians, etc (e.g. "Does the word 'violent' describe most blacks, compared to other races, such as whites, asians, etc").
"According to Beureau of Justice statistics, data show that from 1976 to 2005, black victims were killed by blacks 94% of the time." ... "Overall, more than half the nation's homicide victims are African-American, though blacks make up only 13% of the total U.S. population. Of those black murder victims, 85% were men, mostly young men." Source: http://online.wsj.com/new...
Based on these statistics alone, it would be accurate to claim that blacks are more violent in the U.S compared to other races. Therefore, if a person interpreted the question in the way described they would be correct, but would they necessarily be racist?"
Sometimes I find these types of studies to be corrals, where the participants are being used for an agenda. For instance, were only whites asked these questions. Do you think black respondents would actually show to be more racist if asked that same question?...and a sweeping statement of "describe most blacks"...that's pretty over the top.
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Commented in Here's why Australians will never understand the US obsession with guns
Nope. Gangs do kill people, mostly each other and guns help them do that, so guns are part of the problem. And they do skew stats, but we are still far, far below where other advanced societies are. So culture and society play a part, including what is laudable and what is not. Guns are a symptom. Switzerland as an example is a gun society that acts responsibly.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015...15891/the-u-s-is-a-world-leader-in-gun-deaths
Pretty sad statistics.
By the way...who exactly are you quoting?
EDIT: want clarification for your quote...or did you just make it up.
"guns don't kill people, gang violence kills people... with guns, yes, but guns are not to blame; gangs are; so we need more guns in hands of non-gang members who will then exterminate gangs - gangs which, mind you, will not arm themselves while being exterminated - and, thus, end gang violence and the cause of all these non-gun-but-gang-related deaths"?
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Commented in Driverless lorries could mean 600,000 lost jobs. It's time we took a universal basic income seriously.
My favorite recurring topic, this one is more palatable to me as it would only apply to those out of work and looking for further employment. But... There are 32mm working age people in the UK, Poverty for a family of 4 is 20,000 pounds so let's for simplicity sake say the working age amount is now 18mm... 18x20,000 is 360bn... but the UK system would be for the unemployed, somewhere around 7% but let's add the people who just lost their jobs... let's go liberal with it and say 10%... 3mm so we are still looking at nearly 60bn. Let's assume that you keep the housing benefit but lose the Unemployment and Personal social services and other benefits which combined are 37bn... so you would need to cover the additional 22Bn with new taxes or some other way. Of course, if you also take away the housing and family benefits this system would cost less.
I will admit in the UK this is way more feasible than in a country like the US with a lot more people. I still think it's not feasible in terms of how to tax it out... you can only squeeze the wealthy so much before they decide to be wealthy elsewhere...
Poverty Level: Child Poverty Action Group
Working Age in the UK: Office for National Statistics
Welfare Spending: Office for National Statistics
TL,DR: I'm just saying once again this is a great concept but one that is not feasible to a working budget, and that's just my opinion but the numbers look that way to me.
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Commented in Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis
Experience shows otherwise. FTA:
By 2015, Insite had logged more than 3m visits and had safely treated nearly 5,000 overdoses – without one death. It had earned accolades around the world for the critical role it plays in saving lives and preventing the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C, while research suggested those who visited the clinic were more likely to pursue detox programs.
Guess it depends on what your goal is. Unless your goal is to kill heroin users, programs like Insite make sense. Reminiscent of how one achieves the goal of reducing abortion, isn’t it?
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Commented in Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From ’05 to ’14, Report Says
The study says:
>The environmental group found that consumption of chicken and pork fell as well, though less drastically, as Americans ate more cheese, butter and leafy greens.
According to poultry industry sources, total poultry consumption during the 2005-2014 time declined slightly.
http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-t...d-livestock-1965-to-estimated-2012-in-pounds/
The graph you provided actually supports what the study said, that from 2005 on total poultry demand declined along with beef.
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Commented in Statisticians fear Trump White House will manipulate figures to fit narrative
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
That was a truth a century ago, back when "Student" was publishing results from Guinness production to forward the field. It is kind of why you always need to ask about raw data, methodology, sampling, population size, etc. The same people who were lobbying criticisms at various polls across the political spectrum for pushing different agendas already should know it is not a matter of "if" but a matter of "when". The same reason why NASA put forward this statement.
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Commented in Why US Liberals are now Buying Guns too
The article is what it is. I live in Ohio where racial slurs are up and tormenting minorities also is up. The statistics may not show it yet,but believe me it is going on. I do not know what you mean by us against them,but I do know I have never seen such bigotry and sexism so openly after any election in all the years I have voted(since 72). Maybe you should come and visit us in the lower 48 and see for yourself. If you are white you will be ok!
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Commented in Teaching medical students to challenge 'unscientific' racial categories
So political correctness now seeps into the medical field. Science rules and statistics matter. I want a doctor to rule out the most obvious cause for my illness, PERIOD.
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Commented in Gives us a Full Day of Battery Life with No Compromises
How about they focus on both?
And for almost every consumer, a phone can already last a full day under any usage scenario. You would literally have to be using a modern flagship for 6-8 hours to burn it out in a day, and that doesn't mean 6 hours of talk, but a solid 6-8 hours of facebook, internet, etc. Few users ever hit this kind of use on a phone, which is why they've moved on to advertising 2+ day battery life. What the author is emphasizing so much has already been achieved by new flagships.
"Manufacturers need to stop advertising they can achieve a 2 day battery life when doing so requires you turn off features through power saving modes, live next to a cell tower, use your phone a little as possible or some combination of the 3"
Meh, my Z3 advertises "2 day battery" (xperia is where this buzzword phrase really started being pushed) and it doesn't require any of that. I easily get 2 days of battery (actually 3) with normal use. This guy needs some data and actual statistics from normal cell phone users to back up his article.
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Commented in The 8-Bit Video Game That Makes Statistics Addictive
Too cool! Statistics was the only mathematics course that got me 100% engaged with the subject matter in my entire school career. Now my kids are the same way, and they think 8-bit stuff is awesome (for some reason) too. We'll be playing this game tonight for sure.