Saturday, September 23, 2017

Little Correlation Between Box Office and Film Quality

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[Added later: this post was prophetic. The Blade Runner sequel (2049) came out two weeks later and as I'm adding this comment, has bee...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

What Determines Amount of International Tourism?

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I was looking at Gunnar Garfors's 25 Least Visited Countries in the world. I had always wondered about this, so for fun I decided to c...

Defense Contractors - Is War Profitable?

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Companies like Boeing get some of the revenue from selling consumer (civilian) hardware, and some from defense. Other companies are far mor...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

War Requires Material Capacity and Lack of Institutional Constraint

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In Never at War, Spencer Weart shows that in the modern era, democracies are extremely unlikely to fight other democracies , but that non-de...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Education Ratings by State

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This is from Education Week . No Bad Stripe visible here, but the Northeast sure does stand out. Looks like those Puritans and Midlan...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Per Capita Income and the Bad Stripe

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The Bad Stripe runs southwest from extreme SW Pennsylvania through West Virgina, turning westward through Kentucky and part of Tennessee, cr...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

U.S. Presidents, Quality and Remembrance by Experts vs. Popular Opinion

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Previously I measured the prominence of U.S. Presidents , using a quantitative measure (mentions in print as indexed by Google N-gram; a per...