Borrowing an idea from studies of gerrymandering, here's "wasted goals" the in EPL in 24/25.
Wins: Wasted Goals = Goals Scored - (Opponent Goals + 1)
Draws/Losses: Wasted Goals = Goals Scored

Wicked line in the footnotes of a smart post on mediation analysis. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Anora, the nominee with highest MetaCritic composite score, won Best Picture at last night's #Oscars. That has happened in half of the years since Oscar voting was reformulated in 2009.

5 years ago today was Super Tuesday. The last set of competitive races between Biden and Bernie before the field consolidated around Biden amidst the growing Covid crisis. CDC already under fire. National death toll at 6 reported cases.

Strongly recommend this 35min Oscar-nominated documentary, streaming on Netflix. Oren O’Brien is an inspiration!

Today in Sociology of Culture. Cerulo, but scented lotions.

Finally, a stretch of good weather coming up!

Clever approach to gather data on congestion pricing. Bloomberg "aimed a high-definition camera at Lexington Avenue...and collected more than a hundred hours of daytime traffic imagery before and after congestion pricing went into effect." Intriguing results.

Spotted in NYC.

Huh.

Interesting claim. Anecdotally, it seems true. But I wonder how many people were ever involved in the rock vs. pop wars. I think a lot of people have always liked whatever’s on the radio. pca.st/episode/19ba...

Let me get this straight: Jenny Lewis invented the gift card? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/s...

I said this back in September. Turns out Man City is more Mr. Bean than Jason Statham.