Nathan Yau, a statistician who runs Flowing Data,... ...me Use Survey conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics between 2022 and 2024. The tool is adjustable by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/17/Who-Do-We-Spend-Time-With/Do you recognize the design of this cookie?It's a reference to a meme illustrating suvivorship bias.During World War II, the US Navy asked statistician Abraham Wald to suggest where armor should be added to planes based...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/02/Survivorship-Bias-Cookies/I'm glad you asked!Cutter Wood has a new book out titled Earthly Materials: Journeys through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. It examines the science of our excretory systems. An exerpt available a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/03/How-Much-Will-the-Average-Person-Poop-and-Pee-During-a-Lifetime/According to the respected Pew Research Center, which conducts public opinion polling on many topics, 12% of young Americans can operate a SSBN, which is one of these:The SSGNs are US nuclear-powered submarines that, ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/22/12-of-Americans-Are-Licensed-to-Operate-a-Nuclear-Submarine/Hadrian (r. 117-138) lived to the ripe old age of 62 before he died of natural causes. He was an outlier on that count. Only 25% of Roman Emperors died of peacefully. That's if you count from Augustus all the way to Cons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/10/19/A-Data-Scientist-Crunches-the-Numbers-on-the-Lifespans-of-Roman-Emperors/AsapSCIENCE has a whole lot of statistics to show you know how normal you are. That seems a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/09/Are-You-Normal/[https://youtu.be/bELuzigi-dM] (YouTube link)Only... ...ing under the sun. Elliot Morgan has a roundup of statistics
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/17/46-Odd-and-Surprising-Stats-and-Figures/Don’t be fooled by people using the word &ld... ...is is only one of several comics illustrating how statistics
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/14/Why-You-Shouldnt-Trust-Statistics/How well did Glee end? Fans were clearly delighted. I didn't see it, but I did watch the finale of Newhart, which was ingenious.Dexter rightfully deserves to be dead last in this list. Just hacking off the last 3 minutes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/02/A-Statistical-Analysis-of-the-Ratings-of-the-First-and-Last-Episodes-of-TV-Shows/What's really important for women to look for when searching for a man to marry? The most popular and growing characteristics are mutual attraction, dependable character, and maturity. Chastity used to be important, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/25/What-Men-and-Women-Want-from-Marriage-1939-vs-2008/
