Are the odds of everyday life in your favor?
Did you know that 59% of men and 66% of women have lost their attraction to someone after a first kiss? That people are more likely to die in January and March than other months? That the odds of...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s white hood
What incorrigible racist said the following? “Fewer young black and Latino men participate in the labor force compared to young white men. And all of this translates into higher unemployment rates and...
View ArticleWhat’s behind epidemic of financial industry deaths?
A rash of eight financial-industry suicides so far in 2014 has mental-health professionals trying to understand what’s behind it. In late winter many people suffer from depression, but for bankers this...
View ArticleFraud runs rampant in Census Bureau
There’s a pattern of falsifying statistics throughout the entire Census Bureau. And anyone who attempts to blow the whistle on the fraud is either retaliated against or ignored, according to two new...
View ArticleNearly half of 2013 dog-bite victims were kids
LOS ANGELES — About 4.5 million Americans were bitten by dogs in the United States last year, including over 2 million children and 5,581 U.S. Postal Service workers, authorities announced Thursday in...
View Article‘Split’ happens: Absurd stats, live and without context!
I’m positive, perhaps, that some of our best friends are like-minded, consenting adults, those into “splits.” Hey, as long as they keep it to themselves. Don’t ask, don’t tell. “Splits” are the...
View ArticleRolling Stone’s ‘rape culture’
The now-discredited Rolling Stone article alleging a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia would never have been written if not for a highly politicized orthodoxy that holds our campuses...
View ArticleLAPD cooked the books to conceal crime under Bratton
The Los Angeles Police Department fudged violent crime stats under the watch of Bill Bratton — cooking the books to keep down the number of serious assaults, a report said Thursday. An estimated 14,000...
View ArticleNYPD stats show overall crime down, serious offenses up in ’15
Serious crimes in the city — including murders, rapes and robberies — increased last year while the number of arrests plunged to their lowest level since 2003, according to NYPD statistics released...
View ArticleFDNY’s misleading response times make them seem faster, union charges
The city keeps two sets of books when it comes to FDNY emergency response times — and the data that is most accessible to the public shows skewed figures that are up to 92 percent more favorable than...
View ArticleThe number of middle-aged whites killing themselves has soared
Suicide rates in the United States have soared to a 30-year high, with the most striking surge among middle-aged women and white people, according to federal data released Friday. The total number of...
View ArticleAmericans haven’t gotten a raise in 16 years
Mark Twain is credited with saying “figures don’t lie, but liars figure.” If he were around today Twain’s quote might go something like this: “Figures do lie, and liars figure out how to make people...
View ArticleFBI stats back up Trump’s warning on crime
The FBI confirmed Monday that Donald Trump’s right: America’s murder rate is spiking. New data show homicides rose 11 percent in 2015, with overall violent crime up 4 percent. Trump rightly warned that...
View ArticleThe death penalty may soon be sentenced … to death
The death penalty is one of the most controversial parts of our justice system, for understandable reasons. Based on how most Americans feel about it, and other factors, sentencing someone to death may...
View ArticleTwo-thirds of people do this while kissing
Next time you walk into a room and completely forget why you’re there, take it as an evolutionary compliment. It’s a sign your survival instincts are finely attuned to the dangers of your new...
View ArticleCensus Bureau fraud still running rampant after probe
A whistleblower is about to turn on the Census Bureau. A few years back, I broke the story that there had been massive falsification of data in the Philadelphia region of the Census Bureau. There was...
View ArticleNew Jersey has fourth lowest divorce rate in US
New Jersey’s state bird is the American goldfinch — but it ought to be the American lovebird. Love is alive and well in New Jersey, which had the fourth lowest divorce rate — just 12.9 per 1,000 people...
View ArticleRetail sales numbers are fake but the harm is real
There’s an old saying that no one should ever see how laws or sausages are made. I’ll add to that: Nobody should know how the government comes up with its retail sales figures. But I’m going to tell...
View ArticleThe Post defends de Blasio
We won’t say Mayor de Blasio’s effort to reform the city’s jails is working — but we can say city Comptroller Scott Stringer just failed in his bid to show that it isn’t. Stringer’s shop on Monday...
View ArticleCutting through the hate-crime hysteria
A funny thing happened after Mayor de Blasio essentially blamed President-elect Donald Trump for “a huge uptick in hate crimes”: Someone looked at the numbers. It turns out that far more hate crimes...
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