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  • Political Pollsters Are Getting Crushed By Digital Measurement Challenges

    “The world may have a polling problem,” declared Nate Silver, the former New York Times statistical wunderkind who’s since launched FiveThirtyEight under the ESPN banner, in an article last year. Silver made this claim following the failure of UK polls to predict results of the country’s general election last May. In the US, he noted […]

  • Nearly Two-Thirds of Facebook Users Have Taken a Break

    Facebook continues to be the most popular social networking site in the US, but users are more likely to take a break from the site or spend less timing using it, according to new data from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. In its December 2012 survey, Pew found that 67% of […]