{"id":725,"date":"2004-11-06T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=725"},"modified":"2004-11-06T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T00:16:43","slug":"red-blue-look-at-the-size-of-that-tail-on-the-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/11\/06\/red-blue-look-at-the-size-of-that-tail-on-the-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"An Amazing Histogram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all political junkies this <a href=\"http:\/\/bactra.org\/redirects.html\">study<\/a> of the 2004 presidential election by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman is extremely interesting.<br \/>\nUpdate: It seems that the authors have gotten rid of the final histogram which claimed that 302 counties voted nearly fully for Kerry (IIRC &gt;90% of the vote for Kerry.)  This was the most interesting part of the article, unfortunately.  Still an interesting article, but not nearly as shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all political junkies this study of the 2004 presidential election by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman is extremely interesting. Update: It seems that the authors have gotten rid of the final histogram which claimed that 302 counties voted nearly fully for Kerry (IIRC &gt;90% of the vote for Kerry.) This was the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/11\/06\/red-blue-look-at-the-size-of-that-tail-on-the-distribution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Amazing Histogram&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}