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Divorce is a common affair in America today, but it hits some groups harder than others. Yes, race can be a factor -- but far more telling is financial status, among other things. For answers, 24/7 Wall Street digs into the Census Bureau%u2019s May report, Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 2009.
Hate your job? Thinking of moving to greener pastures? A new ranking of the country's best jobs might contain some career move hints. Some results may surprise you. Mathematicians, actuaries and statisticians aren't sexy, but they rank among the top.
I write about real estate for a living and have for about a decade. If I have one take-away lesson from my time in the trenches, it's this: Numbers can be spun to prove any point you are trying to make, and on some days, the warring factions (Housing Bubblers, Doom and Gloomers, No Better Time to...
The wizards behind those amazing World Series statistics
12:00PM 10/31/2009
When Don Zminda was the statistician for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball in the 1990s, he spent most of his Sundays calculating reams of data that were written onto a stack of note cards for announcers Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. That was the state of the art back then -- not now.
"It would take me...
Bulgaria lottery repeats winning numbers, and winners abound
3:00PM 9/18/2009
Despite odds of 4.2 million to one against it, the Bulgarian national lottery drew the numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35, and 42 on two consecutive draws. And more curious than that: either many people in Bulgaria are not mathematicians and believe in second chances; or it was rigged. Ann astonishing 18...
Early Monday morning, the Census Bureau announced that new home sales surged 11 percent in June compared with a month earlier [pdf], outpacing most economists' estimates and leading to a orgy of enthusiastic news coverage. But did sales really climb?
The press certainly thinks so. Bloomberg News...
The combination of cell phones and driving is a hot button issue these days, and well it should be. My research indicates that cell phone- related crash statistics are sketchy at best but it seems that almost everyone agrees talking on a cell phone while driving can quickly lead to tragedy. I have...
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