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emissions are equal to the number of people times their per capita income,
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
the size of the population residing in the country’s nth largest city is equal to 1/n of the largest city’s total, corresponding to a power law with a coefficient of –1
Vaclav Smil • Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
remarkable record of English “consumable” prices since the year 1264, compiled with great care by Henry Phelps-Brown and Sheila Hopkins. This index shows that market prices of food, drink, fuel and textiles in the south of England have tended to rise for more than seven hundred years, at an average rate of about one percent each year.2
David Hackett Fischer • The Great Wave
One of our favorite quotes of his is, “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding.”21 When we look at the amount of digital data being created and think about how much more insight there is to be gained, we’re pretty sure he’s not wrong, either.
Andrew McAfee • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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youtu.besampling efficiency
Jenni Romaniuk • Better Brand Health eBook
The story we see with each metric varies because some measures are more difficult for category buyers than others.
Jenni Romaniuk • Better Brand Health eBook
Human development has improved all over the world: between 1990 and 2015, the number of countries classified as having low human development fell from sixty-two to forty-one, while those classified as having very high human development rose from eleven to fifty-one. At the same time, progress has slowed since 2010.
Richard Haass • The World
share to be of interest as a competitive group, then you can put in a catch-all ‘Private…
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