Among all our casual topics, whether someone likes the taste of beer is the single best predictor of if he or she has sex on the first date.
via blog.okcupid.com
OkTrends is so awesome.
Jul
5
2011
Do you like the taste of beer?
Dec
9
2010
Numbers Are Cool
Isn't that cool?
white@iwhite:~> bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
1 + 2 - ( 3 - 4 - 5 ) * 6 * 7 * 8 - 9
2010
^D
A little too late though. ;)
Nov
23
2010
Xbox Serial Numbers
Between October 2003 and January 2005, the Xbox Linux Project asked all visitors to their website to enter their Xbox serial numbers, date and country of manufacture, ROM version, hard disk and DVD drive brand and other properties, and gathered more than 14,000 entries. The original idea was to find a rule to deduce the hard disk and DVD drive types in an Xbox by only looking at the serial number, which was visible through the unopened packaging.
via pagetable.com
This guy has spent a lot of time putting numbers together. And, frankly speaking, while I don't see much value in the findings (as one of the commenters pointed out: just go a talk to the Microsoft!), it's always exciting how numbers that are put in order can tell a story.
Mar
9
2010
Health Reform by the Numbers
- $1,115 – that’s the average premium for employer-sponsored family coverage per month in 2009. Annually, that amounts to $13,375 – or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job. (Source)
- And if nothing is done to reform our broken health care system, a recent survey found that over the next ten years, out-of-pocket expenses for Americans with health insurance could increase 35 percent in every state in the country. (Source)
via whitehouse.gov
Health system is indeed broken. Health insurance is indeed expensive.
But what's up with this number - $1,115? Any numerology subtext (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology)? Hypnosis? Zombing? Anything else? :)
Too much stress on numbers, while it's the alliance of a number-outcome.
P.S. My family coverage is less than that.
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