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  • July 2008

    • Gallup Shows Biggest Obama Lead—Even as McCain Gains

      New York Daily News  |  Jul 28, 08 6:30 PM CDT

      Gallup Shows Biggest Obama Lead—Even as McCain Gains

      (Newser) - After a Gallup poll yesterday showed Barack Obama with his biggest lead to date among all registered voters, at 9%, a Gallup/ USA Today survey out today has John McCain ahead among those voters deemed most likely to actually go to the polls in November. A rep for Gallup—which conducts a daily “tracking poll” of registered voters—calls the varying data “statistical noise.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • opinion polls  • statistics

  • June 2008

    • Justices Don't Buy MLB's Fantasy Pitch

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 2, 08 2:15 PM CDT

      Justices Don't Buy MLB's Fantasy Pitch

      (Newser) - The Supreme Court refused today to hear an appeal by Major League Baseball against a ruling that allowed fantasy sports leagues to use real players' names and stats without paying a licensing fee, the Los Angeles Time s reports. MLB contended such leagues shouldn't "exploit players' identity for commercial gain;" the for-profit ventures said free-speech law allows it. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • US Supreme Court  • athlete  • First Amendment  • statistics  • fantasy sports

  • May 2008

    • Baseball Finally Back to Normal

      Washington Post  |  May 23, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Baseball Finally Back to Normal

      (Newser) - After over a decade of chemical-fueled insanity, baseball is back to normal, writes Thomas Boswell in the Washington Post. Home run totals are down 10.4% this spring, after an 8% drop last year. The sport is on pace to return to the century-old statistical norms ripped to shreds by the steroid era. “I think this is a good thing,” said Orioles prez Andy MacPhail. “It’s more like baseball.” More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • steroids  • performance-enhancing drugs  • home run  • statistics

  • March 2008

    • Iraqi Death Toll Uncountable

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 19, 08 10:49 AM CDT

      Iraqi Death Toll Uncountable

      (Newser) - "We don't do body counts," an American general notoriously said not long after the US-led invasion of Iraq. Five years later, there is no credible count of civilian deaths in the Iraq war, the Guardian reports in a look at the wildly different estimates that have been promoted—ranging from under 100,000 to well over a million—and how they're put together. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Iraq death toll  • civilian casualties  • statistics  • Tommy Franks

  • December 2007

    • IBM Launches Social Mapping Biz Tool

      MIT Technology Review  |  Dec 29, 07 7:39 PM CST

      IBM Launches Social Mapping Biz Tool

      (Newser) - IBM has released a software tool named 'Atlas' that aims to track and analyze statistical relationships among individuals in a corporate setting, MIT Technology Review reports. Employees are given the opportunity to partake in business-adapted online practices—blogging, social grouping, bookmarking, organizing projects—and Atlas creates a "social graph" of the relationships formed among participants. More »

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      business  • social networking  • IBM  • blogging  • statistics  • corporate

  • September 2007

    • US Wrestles With Defining Iraq Deaths

      Washington Post  |  Sep 25, 07 1:17 PM CDT

      US Wrestles With Defining Iraq Deaths

      (Newser) - For military analysts, a shooting victim in Iraq hasn’t necessarily fallen prey to sectarian violence. Instead, teams analyze each killing for signs it was ethnically motivated, compiling statistics the Bush administration has relied on to show progress in Iraq. Victims who were tortured, shot once in the head, or taken to body dumps are included; others are not. More »

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      Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • David Petraeus  • sectarian violence  • statistics

  • August 2007

    • How Much Does It Cost to Tie the Knot?

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 24, 07 6:58 PM CDT

      How Much Does It Cost to Tie the Knot?

      (Newser) - The notion that Americans are blowing vast sums of money on weddings is debunked by the Numbers Guy at the Wall Street Journal . The figure is often touted that the average US wedding costs $30,000; in fact, it's closer to half that price. Carl Bialik says the surveys, distributed by the bridal business, are skewed by interviewing only couples likely to splurge on nuptuals, and excluding those who opt for modest civil ceremonies. More »

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      wedding  • price  • brides  • statistics  • cost

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