Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
This seems like a bit of a problem: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce…
These safety features open new opportunities to deploy robotic automation systems, side by side with human workers, so each can do what they do best: “The introduction of cobots with…
aiwan’s ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd (3711.TW), one of the world’s largest semiconductor testing and packaging firms, said on Wednesday that it would build a more advanced smart factory, as…
This assessment will prove false within a few years, of course but it fits the meme of the day of media’s obsession with negativity: More than half of Americans believe…
These 2022 news headline sound bad until you look at context – over time, the numbers stay much the same – and surveys results are questionable: As of August, 60%…
Nearly 125,000 Illinoisans Went Looking For A New State To Live In Illinois isn’t alone in losing people to other states, it’s just that we’re losing so many more than…
The linked post is, to some extent, trying to explain why there seems to be an increase in political activism. I don’t know about that but the data in the…
It is interesting that the per capita peak was in the 1960s. All of these countries, except China, peaked in the 1960s. US Fertility Rate Chart Not sure this is…
Samuelson was 100% wrong. For decades, since its 1961 edition, students of economics had read in Paul Samuelson’s textbook the following sentence: “The Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to…
Source: Midterms 2022: The Changing Demographics of the Electorate In addition to many other factors, this change in population demographics – and the demographics of the legal voting population –…