Wednesday
Take-rate study of Uber and Lyft drivers, found on FiveThirtyEight's "Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019." Original study conducted by Jalopnik.
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Thursday
35 Years of American Death, also from FiveThirtyEight. My number is the county with the highest mortality rate, Union County Florida compared with the lowest #.
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Friday
From YouGov.com, a [crazy!] study that found 29% of Midwesterners would "connect more to a politician eating something unhealthy, compared with something healthy (13%)."
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Monday
From the New York Times online, the final scores at the US Open between Naomi Osaka and Belinda Bencic. The score was 6-4 (for one of the two matches).
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Tuesday
A study from YouGov.com that "Millennials are the loneliest generation." I focused on the number of those who said they had "zero" friends - 22% of total surveyed.
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Wednesday
From FiveThirtyEight, "Our Guide To The Exuberant Nonsense Of College Fight Songs." I focused on how many said the word "Rah" (18) out of the total songs analyzed (44).
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Thursday
From BBC News, "Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote." The final vote was 319-320, with the conservatives losing one vote.
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