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Cepos viser vejen for Socialdemokratiet

fredag, februar 22nd, 2008

Skidt med at cepos formulerer sig lidt klodset. 50% er jo faktisk mere end 40% og med 1000 interview sandsynligvis endda også signifikant. Det interessante ved spørgeskemaet omkring folks holdninger til den seneste hærværk/terrorisme/drengestreger/ i københavn er hvor fint holdningerne fordeler sig til henholdsvis højre og venstre i folketingssalen. Og særligt at de socialdemokratiske vælgere […]

København, Religiøsitet, retsstat, Studies, dystopia, (im)migration, political, RAMBLINGS | 1 comment

Vision of Humanity - a slight critique

fredag, august 3rd, 2007

I very much like the Vision of humanity project. It’s an interesting alternative to e.g. freedomhouse rankings. However - it seams to me that there is a systematic bias that I don’t care much for.In calculating a nations peace index the number of external wars fought (indicator 1 and 2) as well as military expenditure […]

development, happiness, Freedom of speech, economics, Human rights, political, social capital | No comments

Map of happiness

torsdag, juli 12th, 2007

From the Economist.com, comes this at a glance insight: Money does make happy: Rich countries are more happy then poor countries.
This view on happiness is of cause a bit naive and there are certainly many reasons why it does not apply on the individual level for intra-cluster correlations (i.e. it would be an ecological fallacy […]

Learning, happiness, political, recommendations, psychology, great sites, video | 2 comments

Comparative view on U.S. presidents from 1945 to 2007 (approval ratings)

tirsdag, juli 10th, 2007

I found (via stumbleUpon) this comparative view on U.S. presidents since 1945  and up to the midterms in 2007. The article hardly has any text, so the readers can pretty much interpret themselves. Below a detailed look on Ronald Reagan’s approval ratings:

Btw: this is a good interview with Reagan from 1975 (Inside Ronald Reagan (who […]

U.S. Presidential Politics, Reagan, political | No comments

State of the egyptian blogsphere

mandag, juli 2nd, 2007

… Well according to Ahmad Sherif’s blog Egypt still has a long way to go. Democracy, freedom of speech etc. Quote:
The Egyptian Police is attempting to intimidate our fellow blogger Wael Abbas. Wael has provided us with precious recordings exposing the unlawful and disgusting ways of our local Police and Secret Services. These are […]

Freedom of speech, Egypt, government, political, video, Human rights, Aid | 1 comment

3 percent can point to kabul, but fortunately…

mandag, juni 25th, 2007

JibJab does it again: what we call the news

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political, jovial stuff, video | 1 comment

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