Counting people in the US: “White people” may be a minority in the US by 2042. And apparently it is difficult to count the number of Jews, Muslims and other smaller religious groups who live in the Land of the Free.
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thabet
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thabet
Probability is [...] the philosophical success story of the first half of the twentieth century. To speak of philosophical success will seem the exaggeration of a scholar. Turn then to the most worldly affairs. Probability and statistics crowd in upon us. The statistics of our pleasures and our vices are relentlessly tabulated. Sports, sex, drink, drugs, travel, sleep, friends — nothing escapes. There are more explicit statements of probabilities presented on American prime time television than explicit acts of violence [...] Our public fears are endlessly debated in terms of probabilities: chances of meltdowns, caners, muggings, earthquakes, nuclear winters, AIDS, global greenhouses, what next? There is nothing to fear (it may seem) but the probabilities themselves. This obsession with the changes of danger, and with treatments for changing the odds, descends directly from the forgotten annals of nineteenth century information and control.
– Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance.
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razib
What Statistics Don’t Tell Us - The bad news about the good news about terrorism. sounds like The Black Swan.
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razib
below ali said: “This is a good way of identifying all the future fundamentalists” in response the large number of techies on this list. just a reminder
1) most fundamentalists may be techies, but most techies may not be fundamentalists
2) context matters. the tech skew in some data is far less pronounced among european born muslim radicals
