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Month: December 2019

  • Immigration

Does immigration make littering worse? It sure looks that way

  • Posted on December 19, 2019September 7, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Alex Nowrasteh and Andrew Forrester just published a piece which they claim to show that, in the US, immigrants don’t litter more than natives. Here is how Nowrasteh, in his inimitable style, shared the piece on Twitter. I started my…

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Is Ramarni Wilfred a statistical impossibility?

  • Posted on December 10, 2019January 23, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A couple of days ago Mansa Keita, a computer scientist, tweeted about a 16-year-old black prodigy who lives in the UK: A quick Google search reveals this story had first been reported in 2014, back when Ramarni — Wilfred is…

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