Month: February 2015

Demographics of Key Social Networking Platforms | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

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http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/09/demographics-of-key-social-networking-platforms-2/

Facebook

71% of adult internet users/58% of entire adult population

Fully 71% of online adults use Facebook, a proportion unchanged from August 2013. Usage among seniors continues to increase. Some 56% of internet users ages 65 and older now use Facebook, up from 45% who did so in late 2013 and 35% who did so in late 2012. Women are also particularly likely to use Facebook compared with men, a trend that continues from prior years.

Are These The Eight Worst PowerPoints The Government Has Ever Produced? | Mother Jones

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/powerpoint-slides-pentagon-ash-carter

We’ve all sat through PowerPoint presentations that suffocate any chance for deep thought, let alone comprehension. But defense and intelligence agencies are in their own league when it comes to slide-based warfare.

Here’s How The Academy Chooses The Best Picture | FiveThirtyEight

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Interesting about how they use the IRV system!

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/academy-awards-best-picture-instant-runoff/

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began allowing more than five films to be nominated for best picture, in 2009, it also changed the way the votes were counted. The system is called instant-runoff voting, and it’s designed so that the film preferred by the widest consensus of Academy voters wins.