Income distribution trends in the United States
Interesting insight: Among the researchers' findings is that the only group of workers for which gains exceeded the economic growth rate was the group near the 99th percentile (top 1%) of the income distribution.
The actual income of workers at the 99th percentile, should have risen from $257,000 in 1975, to $560,000 by 2018 at the economic growth rate, but it actually rose to $761,000 (and was more than $1 million in 2007).
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Interesting insight: Among the researchers' findings is that the only group of workers for which gains exceeded the economic growth rate was the group near the 99th percentile (top 1%) of the income distribution.
The actual income of workers at the 99th percentile, should have risen from $257,000 in 1975, to $560,000 by 2018 at the economic growth rate, but it actually rose to $761,000 (and was more than $1 million in 2007).
Source: StaDaFa
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Wordle is a new word-game that everyone and their mother seems to talk about these days. It is a fun word game that seems like the child Mastermind had with crosswords. The goal of Wordle is to find a random five-letter word in 6 tries. You do that by guessing each time what the missing word might be. After each guess, the colour of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word. If a letter turns green, then that letter is in the word and in the correct spot. If a letter turns yellow, it means that it is in the word but not in the correct spot, and if it turns black, the letter is not on the word at all.
The whole appeal of Wordle, and what differentiates it from other word games, is the fact that only one word is available each day. Does any of you play it? I never played and purposely don't plan to😄
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The whole appeal of Wordle, and what differentiates it from other word games, is the fact that only one word is available each day. Does any of you play it? I never played and purposely don't plan to😄
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Horror Villains' kill count.
From most kills to least, we have Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, The Invisible Man, Hannibal Lecter, Jigsaw, and Victor Crowley.
Which one is your favourite?
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From most kills to least, we have Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, The Invisible Man, Hannibal Lecter, Jigsaw, and Victor Crowley.
Which one is your favourite?
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The number of people who use social media
For this purpose we have created two graphs: One showing the number of people who use some of the most visited western social media over time;
the other showing the user growth of these social media, taking as a zero point on the X-axis the day they launched.
In both cases, we've included monthly active users, i.e people that use each service at least once a month.
Source: StaDaFa
For this purpose we have created two graphs: One showing the number of people who use some of the most visited western social media over time;
the other showing the user growth of these social media, taking as a zero point on the X-axis the day they launched.
In both cases, we've included monthly active users, i.e people that use each service at least once a month.
Source: StaDaFa
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Radar plot depicting the data presented in Nutt, David, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse"
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Anosmia, or the loss of smell, is one of the most common manifestations of COVID-19, and one of the symptoms that differentiates it from other diseases with similar characteristics.
As it is clearly evident in the graph, during the first months of the pandemic when few things about COVID-19 were known and testing was scarce, many individuals noticed the loss of smell and turned to the internet to find out what was wrong. The magnitude of these searches at the end of March 2020, translated a few weeks later to hundreds of deaths.
The story repeated itself many times, throughout all COVID-19 waves. People noticed they couldn't smell, searched it on Google, and then a few days later cases were up, and a few weeks later deaths rose as well.
Source: StaDaFa
As it is clearly evident in the graph, during the first months of the pandemic when few things about COVID-19 were known and testing was scarce, many individuals noticed the loss of smell and turned to the internet to find out what was wrong. The magnitude of these searches at the end of March 2020, translated a few weeks later to hundreds of deaths.
The story repeated itself many times, throughout all COVID-19 waves. People noticed they couldn't smell, searched it on Google, and then a few days later cases were up, and a few weeks later deaths rose as well.
Source: StaDaFa
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Number of Serial Killers by Year in the U.S.
The highest growth of serial killers in the U.S. was between 1960 and 1970. That's entirely due to the American mega-project of building high-speed roads between the states everywhere.
Thanks to the new highways, serial killers could easily travel between the states, remain anonymous, and hide their victims on the ways between the states. Especially, the most favourite type of victims were hitchhiker, and with this new American development, there were way more of them than before.
Source: StaDaFa
The highest growth of serial killers in the U.S. was between 1960 and 1970. That's entirely due to the American mega-project of building high-speed roads between the states everywhere.
Thanks to the new highways, serial killers could easily travel between the states, remain anonymous, and hide their victims on the ways between the states. Especially, the most favourite type of victims were hitchhiker, and with this new American development, there were way more of them than before.
Source: StaDaFa
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