{"id":11311,"date":"2015-03-31T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:18:57","slug":"ive-taken-a-job-at-fivethirtyeight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2015\/03\/ive-taken-a-job-at-fivethirtyeight.html","title":{"rendered":"I’ve taken a job at FiveThirtyEight!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"538\"<\/a>I\u2019m pleased to announce that I\u2019ve started working this week at FiveThirtyEight. \u00a0I\u2019m a news writer, so most of my pieces will be shorter, news cycle-driven pieces on data angles in the stories of the day. \u00a0I like to read \u201cdata\u201d a little broadly, so I\u2019m as excited to write about choices of methodology as I am to take a crack at a big dataset myself.<\/p>\n

My first piece as a staffer went up yesterday, and I\u2019ve got a couple of links for you all to pieces I wrote earlier for the site. \u00a0I\u2019ll still be blogging here on religion, but you can follow me at FiveThirtyEight for more news analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve been writing:<\/p>\n

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Will the Indiana Boycott Work?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If Indiana\u2019s RFRA law does trigger a national boycott, the protest won\u2019t depend on ordinary citizens; activists hope to recruit businesses to carry out the boycott for them by proxy.<\/p>\n

If anything, the protest will resemble the\u00a0proposed Dolce and Gabbana boycott<\/a>\u00a0(over the designers\u2019 remarks on in-vitro fertilization and surrogate pregnancies for gay couples), for which activists relied on celebrities to publicly avoid the brand (because the clothes were too expensive to be boycotted by the masses).<\/p>\n

Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What Paris Could Do About Its Mystery Drones<\/a><\/h3>\n

Requiring operators to keep drones in sight would allow law enforcement to charge operators, if they can find them. The Paris drones are flying illegally, but it is difficult to trace a drone on the move back to its controller. In the future, the FAA might require companies to modify their products so the drones\u00a0can\u2019t<\/i>\u00a0be flown in violation of regulations.<\/p>\n

A company could hypothetically track the location of both controller and drone and then override the user\u2019s inputs to send the drone back if it was trying to fly out of an estimated line-of-sight radius. DJI, the company that manufactures the drone that crashed at the White House,\u00a0voluntarily modified its software to set up a blackout zone around the White House<\/a>. Get too close, and the drone will descend until the user either turns it around or is forced to land it.<\/p>\n

Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Shorter Yellow Lights In Chicago Increase Chances Of Tickets<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The red-light cameras have drawn criticism for\u00a0spikes in the tickets issued at certain intersections<\/a>, a possible\u00a0increase in accidents at formerly low-incident lights<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0a $2 million bribery\/kickback scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But for Chicago drivers, it may be the nickel-and-diming that hurts the most. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, the city\u00a0made several modifications to the standard formula used to set minimum yellow-light change times<\/a>, all of which shorten the duration of yellow lights and increase the chance a driver will run a red and pay a fine.<\/p>\n

Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Comparing Obama\u2019s Veto Rate To Other Recent Presidents\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Obama has so far exercised his veto less frequently than other recent presidents. President Bill Clinton vetoed 37 bills in eight years, and President George W. Bush vetoed 12 in his two terms. In President George H.W. Bush\u2019s single term, he vetoed 44 bills.<\/p>\n

But because Obama is facing\u00a0some of the least productive Congresses in recent history<\/a>, his low veto count may not be entirely of his own making. To compare him with other presidents, it makes more sense to look at the rate at which he has vetoed bills, rather than the overall tally.<\/p>\n

Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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