Latest Stories from Walter Hickey
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12 Insanely Hard-To-Spell Words That Won Past Spelling Bees
While the point of the Bee is to spell the words, not define them, half of the fun for the viewer i…
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IT'S THOMAS JEFFERSON DAY: Here Are 19 Famous 'Quotes' That He Never Actually Said
No, Thomas Jefferson did not predict the recession and blame it on the Fed. While Jefferson wasn't …
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Awesome Visualization Shows Height And Weight Of NFL Players By Position
He's also a fan of the NFL, and just unleashed this fantastic visualization of the heights and weig…
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How To Use Microsoft Excel To Pull Only The Data You Need From A Set
Maybe you have a list of students, and only want to know how many of them got A's. The easiest and …
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MAP: New Yorkers Say These Neighborhoods Have The Hottest Residents
Last week we published a set of maps from a poll of New Yorkers about certain popular neighborhoods…
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New Yorkers Say These Neighborhoods Have The City's Best Food [MAP]
Last week we published a set of maps from a poll of New Yorkers about certain popular neighborhoods…
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MAP: The Best Bars In New York City Are In These Neighborhoods
Several days ago we published a set of maps from a poll of New Yorkers about certain popular neighb…
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Washington D.C. Desperately Needs To Stop Listening To America
Americans significantly overestimated the percent of people on food stamps. Most were off by multip…
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The Washington Post Destroyed A Troll In A Twitter Fight For The Ages
A supporter fired back, alleging that the Post was full of godless communists and implying that the…
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MAPS: Here's Where The Hipsters And The Yuppies Live In New York City
Yesterday we published a set of maps from a poll of New Yorkers about certain popular neighborhoods…
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Americans Really Overestimate The Percent Of People On Food Stamps
We asked over 500 respondents to write in an estimate of several different statistics, including th…
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On Average, Americans Think Minimum Wage Should Be Almost $10
But what we got next was even more interesting. We asked people what the minimum wage *should* be, …
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3 Ways To Get A Job In The Booming Legal Marijuana Business
Just because you enjoy smoking marijuana doesn't mean you have what it takes to work in the busines…
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26 Maps That Show How New Yorkers Really Feel About Each Other
A Business Insider-SurveyMonkey Audience poll asked New Yorkers to pick which neighborhoods has the…
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How Anyone Can Run A Simple Linear Regression In Microsoft Excel
You're going to want to use LINEST, the Excel feature that runs a simple linear regression on your …
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POLL: Americans Severely Underestimate How Many Jobs We're Adding
A majority of respondents did know the unemployment rate is down over the past year, from 8.1% in A…
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A New Poll Shows Americans Don't Actually Understand Anything About The Deficit
So this is a difficult question, and we really can't knock people for getting it wrong. What we can…
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The Whole Government Shutdown In One Simple, Beautiful Chart
This rectangle represents all the employees of the federal government. It's divided into smaller bo…
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39 Photos That Prove Birthday Boy Vladimir Putin Is The Most Badass Leader In The World
We don't know what he's doing to celebrate it - perhaps an elephant hunt, bear wrestling, or maybe …
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POLL: Americans Think Inflation Is Way Higher Than It Really Is
Public misperceptions of inflation aren't new, but they appear to be getting worse. The Cleveland F…
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MAPS: Here Are The Most Popular Media Outlets In Every State
The visualization incorporated the data Bit.ly has collected about short links that send people to …
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MAPS: Here Are The Most Popular Media Outlets In Every State
The visualization incorporated the data Bit.ly has collected about short links that send people to …
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How Less Than 5% Of The US Population Caused The Government To Shut Down
Now, let's keep in mind that even this is a high estimate. The National Review's Robert Costa - who…
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MAP: Here Are All The Countries The US Went To War With In Tom Clancy's Novels
The thing is, the foreign policy of the United States in the Clancy-verse is remarkably aggressive,…
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How To Make Someone More Honest Using Only Your Eyes
The paper "Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting," found here at the NI…