Word: skewness
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...interesting facets of celebrity death-watchers is their unique demographic. Who searches for dead celebrities? The answer might surprise you. By examining the visitors to popular dead celebrity sight deadoraliveinfo.com we find that visitors to the site skew to male (71.2%), over 55 years of age (57.7%), living in suburbia (31.4%). Perhaps old guys in the burbs have more time to contemplate mortality...
...Based on the demographics of visitors to the official iPhone site, we know that potential buyers skew slightly male (51.8%), are likely to be between the age of 18-24 (31%) and fit into an affluent urban demographic (11.6%). But it's interesting to note that over 47% of visitors to the site, where you can learn about and purchase the extravagant piece of hardware, earn less than $60,000 a year. Searches for the iPhone first peaked in January of this year as Steve Jobs uncharacteristically pre-announced the new device at the annual MacWorld Conference. Searches began ramping...
With its grayish skew, could cycling become the new golf? A number of things suggest it already is. Stories increasingly surface of businesspeople cutting deals or doctors swapping medical techniques while on a ride, as opposed to the fourth tee. Early this month, at a gathering of the Neurosurgical Society of America in Kohler, Wis., the docs for the first time had the option of skipping an afternoon on the links and instead going for a group ride--and at least 20 signed...
...final exams would not only alleviate this pressure; it would also allow the incorporation of feedback on a course’s final in a student’s responses. We find the argument that a student’s experience with a course’s final will skew his or her responses unconvincing; final exams are integral to a course’s substance and should be evaluated as such. If anything, the limited window for filling out CUE evaluations causes the sample of responses to be skewed, potentially providing future students with a poor representation...
...concern is that a faculty member’s financial ties will skew the results of research. “When money is in play, mischief is a constant companion,” Thrall says...