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The New York Times answers its own question!
‘The Interview’ Brings In $15 Million on Web
LOS ANGELES - “The Interview” generated roughly $15 million in online sales and rentals during its first four days of availability, Sony Pictures said on Sunday.
Sony did not say how much of that total represented $6 digital rentals versus $15 sales. The studio said there were about two million ( Read more... ) -
Politcal Seismology
Eric Cantor’s Loss Was Like an Earthquake
Everybody is talking how it was big and far-reaching surprise, but here Nate Silver has something more subtle in mind: The statistics of Republican primary results look a lot like those of earthquakes, and he presents the graphs to show it. Major primary upsets, like serious earthquakes, are rare but they ( Read more... ) -
Politics, Pundits, and Probabilty
Nate Silver wrote this before the fall of Eric Cantor: The Political Media Still Fall for the Hot-Hand Fallacy.
He referred to it afterwards:
I warned 'ya that folks were drawing too many conclusions from Mitch McConnell's win. Primaries are pretty random.
