Category: Five Thirty Eight

A few days ago, I wrote a post about poltical and demographic associations with changes in COVID-19 rates over all U.S. counties. Today, I’m augmenting that. For here, rather than considering all counties, I limited the study to counties with demonstrably large increases or decreases in COVID-19 prevalence. Rather than working with 3083 counties, this…

(Updated 2020-07-06, see end.) So, today I report on a diversion. This is a bit off the beaten path for me. It resulted from an “I wonder” comment by Rob Honeycutt at Tamino‘s “Open Mind” blog, this time offering a post concerning how predictive the party affiliation of a governor of a state might be…