Questions tagged [statistics]
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What percentage of federal employees are living "paycheck to paycheck"?
During the current government shutdown, I'm hearing stories about government workers who are either furloughed or working without pay taking on second jobs and making use of food assistance. The last ...
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How often do political extremists murder their more moderate allies?
I was recently looking at the recent history of New Caledonia and specifically of the assassination of Tjibaou and Yeiwéné and I was curious how often does an extremist choose to kill more moderate ...
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How could the BLS jobs created in May and June 2025 have been so far off?
The May and June new jobs reports from BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) were incorrect by a factor of ten. How does this happen, and what confidence should be placed in the July report?
May report ...
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What is the level of support for Guamanian independence among different groups?
Guam is a US territory that does not have voting rights in US general elections. There have been several referenda to assess support for a change to independent or state status, but none recently.
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How predictable are the voting records of members of the US legislative branch?
My pet hypothesis:
Everyone of the same party and of the same state votes the same.
A more rigorous statement is: all variance can be explained by party, state, and a minuscule cluster of statiscally ...
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Is there any logic for using betting average rather than best odds? [closed]
There is a question about the predictive power of betting markets compared to polling. Two articles that discus this are Forbes and Fortune, and Forbes references Real Clear Politics (RCP) betting ...
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How can I figure out how much of the trade between each pair of countries is conducted in USD?
I want to get a measure of (an aspect of) the dominance of the US dollar in international trade - which is something I often hear commentators mention.
Is this available as processed data somewhere? ...
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Why is there such a high uncertainty about the death toll in the Sudanese civil war?
According to this article (cited by Wikipedia article on the Sudanese civil war):
“We literally don’t know how many people have died, possibly to a factor of 10 or 15. The number was mentioned ...
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What percentage of people in each nation have ever been incarcerated or are currently incarcerated?
Statistics of the number of people currently incarcerated (in prison, jail, brigs, confinement, detention, etc.) per nation are readily available for many nations. This is commonly referred to as a ...
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Data on Palestinian and Israeli casualties by years
I am looking for data on Palestinian and Israeli casualties in the past - from 1948 (creation of Israel) or earlier to our days, preferably in a downloadable form.
One of the questions that I find ...
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Are there more reliable sources for the death toll in the Israel–Hamas war than the Gaza Health Ministry?
On 25 October, US President Joe Biden stated he had "no confidence" in
the death totals reported by the Gaza Health Ministry.[62][63] In
response, Human Rights Watch stated that after three ...
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How many alleged Islamists does Spain deport or extradite in a year, roughly?
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Benhalima requested asylum in Spain, but Spain – which was the first country in the West to show its support for the Algerian regime when the protests broke out – refused his request. The ...
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Are there statistics on how many people support or oppose vaccine mandates in the US by vaccination status?
Is there a fairly recent study showing how many people in the US support or oppose vaccine mandates broken down by vaccination status (how many vaccinated or unvaccinated people support or oppose ...
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Are there an unusual number of statistical ties in politics, and if so, why?
Presumably in a large sample (here being cases, not people), some will be statistical ties and some not. For example, the senate is in a statistical tie, as is Pennsylvania and Brazil, and many others,...
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Is there any good source of Hungary's legislative statistics?
Specifically, I am interested in figuring out the following pieces of information:
How many times have the parliament voted on legislative acts since the Orban government since 2010;
How many acts ...
