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1. On Tuesday, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted out a graphic showing the current split between male and female voters in the election. And here’s if just dudes voted. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) ID: 9783029 According to Silver, if only women voted, Hillary Clinton would win by a landslide. However, if only men voted, Donald…
Donald Trump Hit On Marlee Matlin During The Celebrity Apprentice, Former Contestant Claims By Steve Helling•@stevehelling Posted on October 12, 2016 at 8:57am EDT Getty (2) When Donald Trump presided over the Celebrity Apprentice, he had complete control of the boardroom. But did the future Republican nominee go too far in dealing with the female celebrities? At least one…
It’s debate night in America, and darkness has fallen in Atlantic City. The area where Pacific and Virginia Avenues meet — once a bustling intersection swarming with patrons ready to take on the house — is now empty, even eerie. To the west, a seniors home and a jewelry shop with a neon-lit “cash for gold” sign face…
We have all heard of ad fraud. And we all probably also know that showing ads to bots — non-human visitors — is a waste of money. But what is less well is how ad fraud can wreak havoc on analytics and measurement — to the point that what you see in analytics is not…
What if the New York City subway map paid homage to some of the city’s great women? (Hover over the map to magnify.) Cartography by Molly Roy, from “Nonstop Metropolis,” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Subway Route Symbols ® Metropolitan Transportation Authority “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” is a song James Brown recorded in…
Technology Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Doug Chayka Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task — just ask Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or whoever it is who now runs BlackBerry. But the…
The 2016 Race How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages close story-meta-footer close story-meta Generated by chartmaker v0.12.1 on Wed Oct 12 2016 12:25:25 GMT-0400 (EDT) Our estimate of the U.S.C./LAT poll, using more typical weights Actual U.S.C./LAT estimates Our estimate of the U.S.C./LAT poll, using more typical weights Actual U.S.C./LAT estimates Our…
(Amy Cavenaile/The Washington Post; iStock) The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The resulting daily pop-up newsletter gave us some interesting insight into the world according to…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Two of Google’s ad measurement metrics have been suspended from accreditation from the Media Rating Council (MRC) — a key accreditation service advertisers and publishers use to verify that their ads are being properly measured — over “non-compliance” issues related to the way in which it counts its ad impressions. MRC announced…
Politics Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video ‘His Hands Were All Over Me’ Jessica Leeds, a businesswoman at a paper company, was sitting next to Donald J. Trump on a flight to New York in the early 1980s. She told The Times that he lifted the armrest and…