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What to Know About Measles as the Virus Spreads The New York TimesUS experiencing largest measles outbreak since 2000 - 5 essential reads on the risks, what to do and what's coming next The ConversationThe Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back The AtlanticMeasles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina WIRED
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House approves housing bill, setting stage for tough Senate negotiations PoliticoHousing affordability package set to advance in Congress amid home-cost concerns CNBCHouse passes bipartisan housing bill as Trump zeroes in on affordability crisis foxnews.comCongress isn't waiting on Trump to tackle
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Three-round 2026 NFL mock draft: Cardinals, Dolphins, Steelers select QBs in Round 3 NFL.comRenner's 2026 NFL mock draft 7.0: Predicting all 32 first-round picks after Super Bowl LX CBS SportsJoel Klatt's 2026 NFL Mock Draft 1.0: Cowboys Get a Future All-Pro? FOX SportsPost-Super Bowl Mock Draft: Arvell Reese goes No. 2 overall, Ravens add Makai Lemon PFF
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Amid the celeb sightings, 1990s nostalgia, GLP-1s galore, sports betting promos, and AI overload from last night's Super Bowl — the Backstreet Boys found themselves in their own battle between […]
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Ads pitching artificial intelligence companies dominated the Super Bowl broadcast. Their huge cost probably didn't ease investor worries about spending.
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The Japanese market has rallied by 12% so far in 2026 as investors respond to Takaichi's expansionary budget promises and the renewed weakness in the yen.
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Real-time food delivery data shows which Super Bowl commercials actually translated into sales.
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Jeremy Siegel, Wharton Emeritus Professor of Finance and Senior Economist at WisdomTree, shares his perspective on the state of the U.S. economy, analyzing recent rate cuts, inflation progress, employment data, tariff uncertainty, and what they could mean for markets and growth in 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Topic: MediaPoliticsThe NYT "Needle" in 2016
The 2020 election showed that doing live reporting on election counts when the order of counting has a bias is misleading and emotionally draining. Of course, there is no actual "race" with totals moving back and forth, one candidate in the lead and then another. That's just an illusion created by the bias in the order. The result is actually a fixed fact after the polls close, and we're just uncovering different parts as time goes by.
It's a bit like scratching off a lottery card. The final result of the card is fixed, you just get some drama revealing bits of it at a time.
The press get good ratings and we can't stop them from reporting this, even when they know the reports are misleading. But instead of one number, there's really two numbers to show from partial results:
The best estimate of the final number based on your models and what data you have
The amount of uncertainty in that estimate (which you might show as a scalar, or as a distribution.)
As we know, Trump even worked to exploit that lie, known as the red mirage, to call the election into question. It's serious stuff.
This particular time, we the following large biases.
In person votes were usually counted before
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