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Though there's a science to using search-term data to predict reality show outcomes, that same kind of data is probably too confounding to provide any real insight into which candidates will get nominated or who will ultimately win the 2008 presidential race. Still, there's no harm in guessing - or in taking a look at what the American public really wants to know. In a previous article, I revealed the most popular searched-on issues in relation to each of the presidential hopefuls. Now, somewhere over Colorado, I'm sifting through thousands of these one-off searches, hoping...
...looks like Internet users are also trying to predict their favored candidate's success in the upcoming election by searching on head-to-head comparisons with their likely competition: "Clinton versus Giuliani," or "Fred Thompson versus Barack Obama." (Searches on Fred Thompson, by the way, are as popular as searches for pictures of his wife...
...despite the opportunity for turnover, political analysts predict that voter turnout will remain extremely...
...professor Robert P. Kirshner ’70, one of the authors of the study. Kirshner added that one of the clues that tipped the team off to the unusual double nature of the explosion, named Supernova 2006gz, was a large quantity of carbon that they detected. Computer models predict high carbon levels when two white dwarfs merge. “Maybe this is a kind of fluffy mess where the white dwarfs have merged,” Kirshner said. To observe supernovae, astronomers analyze spectra from a computerized telescope, rather than observing the explosions directly. Harvard graduate student Malcolm...
Professional journalists and Harvard academics debated the media’s ability and responsibility to predict economic trends during a discussion about financial reporting at the Institute of Politics yesterday. In light of the recent subprime mortgage crisis and the dot-com bubble burst, the four panelists shared their perspectives on the role of journalism in shaping the financial behavior of the public. The panel members argued over whether financial crises could be predicted and whether the general population could respond to such information in order to minimize the extent of a potential economic downturn. In particular, they addressed...