it's looking neck and neck

gonna write and not post so many terrible puns

still waiting for the first EGMOT (emmy, grammy, mitofsky, oscar, tony)

so they don't like pancakes????

my mistake, I retract the Post

who called it the Puppy Bowl and not the World Pup

You’ve spent the past 2 weeks, microlearning for a party. You’re ready to bring up the Great Gatsby. As you take a sip from your wine, Roberta, says: “Oh like an East Egg vs West Egg school?” Your night is ruined. You’ve gained a new nemesis and vow to microlearn even harder.

will take any excuse to point out that the bear on the California flag looks like you asked it for a favor just when it was leaving the office

dc please be alert for a piccolo

if we send the weather to college, maybe then it won't feel like zero degrees

in retrospect I'm not entirely sure this hasn't happened and it would explain some of the MRP panels I've sat through

Reviewer 1: "While we appreciate the attempt to control for altitude in the survey, we are concerned that asking respondents 'How high are you?' may have involved ambiguous wording."

preemptively and defensively clutching my millennial-Canadian-indie-rock listening numbers

fun data for someone out there!

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also do I need to adjust for altitude if I make this in McGrath, Alaska

as my grandmother elmo once said to me

the Cook Report should do recipe reviews in off-years

This is flawless and I feel like Marc Chagall would love it

Striking chart from new @pewresearch.org analysis for Black History Month: In a little over two decades, the percentage of Black Americans with a bachelor's degree has just about doubled. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

he seems like a perfectly fine bunny to me

the "personal life" section in Lindsey Vonn's wikipedia page really takes a turn (complimentary) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey...

pin this thread while I walk away

I would also settle for the ability to hibernate like a bear. There are options here. We can talk. I'm not unreasonable.

honestly not a bad informal heuristic for vetting polls

more things should be named in this manner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_C...

hashtag throwback Wednesday

Desperately trying to think of a Sliders Georg joke but failing.

If others have been doing research on implications for survey cooperation, particularly among Latino and immigrant populations, I'd be very interested to see it

Thinking of everyone at the Post today.

autoplay has gone too far: I moused over this and 4'33" started blaring

with all due apologies, this cannot be true

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

horrible: 34 degrees fahrenheit and partly sunny suddenly feels lovely and mild

@evanbirnholz.bsky.social actually said "argh" aloud when I realized how this worked as a sentence

new sequel to those sheep mystery novels just dropped

do you think darryl strawberry likes alphonso mangos

went too far down the process of trying to come up with DJ names for all the other probability panels but I think "DJ AmeriSpeak" kinda works as-is

we love a detailed crosstab (in my experience, folks often get a little too hung up on sample size for national polls -- after a certain point, there are diminishing returns for a topline -- but the breakouts like this are where a robust sample really comes in handy)

(a bar, somewhere) PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, on third whiskey: they still don't understand the concept of a probabilistic forecast, I mean— THE NEEDLE, six beers deep: I hear you, man PHIL (startled): a talking needle!!

oh no

if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to be adding that last option to every survey regardless of relevance (via www.powder.com/gear/how-sti..., which, tsk, appears to be a convenience sample)

for the record, I'm aware that "nouvelle vague" does not translate to "new vague" and we're not going to talk about *when* I became aware of that

the percentagepilled instinct to describe freezing temperatures as "less than one-third"

this is an eminently losing battle that I will also continue to whole-heartedly fight

Characteristically thoughtful discussion of a known snag of survey research -- people who care a lot about politics are more likely to take political polls -- and what we might be able to do to address that (As noted, I think this is such a fun experiment)

This just in from Amnesty International: "U.S. authorities must immediately release journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting journalists for their reporting is a clear example of an authoritarian practice."

explaining to the unamused guy with a hairnet that actually oversampling is an important statistical method

accidentally typed a gmail address as "gail dot com"

who knew! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneckdown