Year: 2007
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Jesus, Tony Hawk, and World Demographics
So my son Christian was thinking out loud the other day. CXO: Are there more men in the world or women?ME: Actually, there are slightly more women than men.CXO: I don’t know… I mean, Jesus was a man, Tony Hawk is a man, there are a lot of famous people who are men.ME: There are…
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Online Poll in High-Info Crowds = Prediction Market
Over at Second City Cop, they’ve posted a poll with options for the next police chief. Since (I assume, though SCC always notes he has readership all over the world) he probably has a pretty high cop readership, I wonder how accurate this poll will end up being. In effect, this free poll can act…
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CTA Needs to get All GPS-y
No reason why they can’t publish real-time info on everything.
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Amazon Turk for Gathering Intelligence on Infectious Disease in China
Similar to the Who Is Sick? database, this Mechanical turk HIT seeks to collect information about disease from the crowd. Find description of a disease outbreak in China in Chinese We assume you read one or more Chinese newspapers daily. If you see any description of an infectious disease outbreak or even individual new cases…