The U.S. lags badly in some international math tests, but in the TIMSS test we crack the top ten. Or at least we did a decade ago.
contributed by Andy on Jul 29, 2022 in confidence intervals, progress?
On average, time spent - with family peaks at <15yo - with friends peaks at 18 - with coworkers peaks at 30 - with children peaks at 40 - with your partner peaks at 70 - alone peaks at the end fascinating chart (ht @Alex_Radke)
— @DKThomp
contributed by Andy on Jul 19, 2022 in things that go up, lifestyle choices
people drawing logos from memory
contributed by Andy on Jul 16, 2022 in not actually a chart
New research shows that children of immigrants were nearly twice as likely to become rich as the children of people born in the United States. Immigration is the key to American exceptionalism.
contributed by Andy on Jul 12, 2022 in density
How remote work is changing tech pay: “As remote work has become more of an expectation in 2022, salaries have begun to converge toward the higher-tier metros” https://t.co/tEdVMi3wRf
contributed by Andy on Jul 11, 2022 in covid
This is one of the craziest plots I have ever seen. World GDP follows a power law that holds over many orders of magnitude and extrapolates to infinity (!) by 2047. Clearly this trend can't continue forever. But whatever happens, the next 25 years are going to be pretty nuts.
contributed by Andy on Jul 6, 2022 in things that go up, logs logs logs, power laws
Movies left, NIH right. 🤔 (From https://t.co/0D0vA6b6jC.)
contributed by Andy on Jul 4, 2022 in stripe press, progress?
This is about the weirdest temperature distribution in #NYC you'll see. A rapidly moving backdoor front (east -> west) has dropped temperatures in Queens/Bronx down to below 70F (aided by Long Island Sound). Meanwhile, it's still 90F in parts of Brooklyn/Manhattan! #nywx #nycwx
contributed by Andy on May 31, 2022 in weather, actually this is a map
In 2021 Alexa continued her reign as the most disastrously declining popular name, falling from 495th to 883rd among girls born, and shedding 46% of births, from 1281 in 2020 to just 698 in 2021. In percentage terms, no other major name fell more than 25% (which was Lauren).
contributed by Andy on May 13, 2022 in things that go up
Known reinfections had higher Ct values (indicating lower viral loads) with each variant than ones where no record of a previous symptomatic infection existed, here shown in the unvaccinated. 6/9
— @sbfnk
contributed by Andy on Apr 27, 2022 in covid, small multiples