Looking through my Facebook feed I came across a post of an article from Health Magazine that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a made up disorder by big pharma to push drugs to children.  The article cites another article by a Joe Jarvis in The Daily Bell that claims to prove that ADHD is […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with it’s annual census of hate groups which shows .  Last week I wrote extensively on the national hate group numbers at The Hill Talk.  This week I will l look at a new way of measuring the reach of these groups. The hate map for Pennssylvania […]

I asked others in the field of demographics on my last post on the percentage of veterans being a negative predictor of the amount of living wage enacted in the 38 cities/counties that have passed living wage ordinances.  One expert in the field suggested one variable that I hadn’t considered.   Chris Briem over at the […]

Last week I met with two filmmakers who were doing a documentary film on faith and the economy in the Johnstown area.  I was telling them about my blog and my regression model that predicted 78.5% of the variability in Trump’s vote in the 50 states plus the District of Columbia with the predictor variables […]

I’ve written about how things like education, the uninsured, and the concentration hate groups predict Trump’s % of the vote at the US state level and the county level in Pennsylvania.  At the state level Washington, DC was an outlier relative to the rest of the states and at the county level Philadelphia was an […]

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted last.  I’ve been busy with running for city council and other personal issues.  In my last big data post, I looked at county level simple correlations with education, uninsured, child abuse, and Trump’s % of the vote.  This post will look at multiple regression for county […]

Trump marked the first 100 days milestone of his campaign with a rally in Harrisburg the State Capitol touting his achievements and his plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.  In my last post I looked at uninsured trends in the state.  This time I will look at uninsured, poverty rates, educational attainment […]

This week the Southern Poverty Law Center came out with it’s hate map for 2016.  They found an increase in the total number of hate groups in the US from 892 in 2015 to 917 in 2016.  For the last three years I have been adjusting the hate group numbers for the population in the […]

Earlier this year the Southern Poverty Law Center created a map showing the concentration of hate groups in the US.  I adjusted the number of groups in each state by the population in each state  showing a different picture.  Just after the election the FBI issued a new report that hate crimes in the US […]

Candidate Election Result  in PA (%) FB followers  Nov 8 FB engaged  Nov 8 % engaged  Nov 8 Net gain  Nov 8 % Gain Nov 8 Clinton (D) 47.61 16,771 52,344 312.1       5,847 53.5 Trump (R) 48.83 44,222 6,394 14.5     31,160 238.6 Johnson (L) 2.39 764 47 6.2               33 4.5 Stein (G) […]