Statistical evidence:part 2

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

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IN NORMAL TIMES, THE FIRST Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report. The markets react, the politicians preen, and most Americans go about their

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RIDICULOUS that after all this time it should be a shock. What had she expected? That he would appear one day on her doorstep with that oh-so-familiar crooked grin to reclaim her? To tell her that he’