...It happens more often than you'd think. (Not the act of confusing me with other Asians -- which I don't mind so much -- but the verbalization of such. Tact seems to be a lost art these days.)
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Funniest story told to us by the realtor lady we had met yesterday: One time, the contractor she worked with went to a place in Newark, NJ, while there were still tenants living there. Afterwards, he had to call the cops, because he had seen a fresh body in the crawl space of the house. WHAT?! That's insane!
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Some interesting things I dug up while going through the archives at FlowingData.com:
- Good for your stats class or a discussion of how people (BP, specifically) manipulate(s) statistics.
- Regression-able data about TV sizes as a function of time? ...Could be a good intro to Pythagorean Theorem-related discussion about the sizes of TV's.
- Simply fun to know: Legal drinking ages around the world.
- Maybe for the econ teachers: a visualization of the causes of the 2008 US financial meltdown.
- A fascinating representation of how the recession does not hit everyone equally. (Move your mouse up and down to see "hidden" ethnic-age-education lines that are either above or below the national unemployment average.)
- More about unemployment in the States over time.
Some of it is teachable material; others are just cool to check out. It's really interesting how media can enhance your interpretation of numeric data. The guy has some other really neat stuff, but I figured I would link to the short list that appealed to me the most.
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