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Always Check the Dataset

By Dan Nexon

In General

On January 2, 2017

A while ago I used a story about the relative score of North Carolina on "Electoral Integrity" to frame a piece about democratic backsliding. I spend a lot of time looking at datasets, so I have no excuse for not looking at the one used...

advocatethis Although I'm just a year or so older than the girl in the song, I never thought of her as my peer. I didn't know much at 20, but I knew 60s and 70s popular music.
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Cereal She was already nearly 40 when the song came out in 1980, at least by one way of reading it.
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