1. Nate Silver says the car culture is declining. It must be true. “In January, according to statistics compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, Americans drove a collective 222 billion miles. That’s a lot of time spent behind the wheel — enough to make roughly eight hundred round-trips to Mars. It translates to about 727 miles traveled for every man, woman, and child in the country. But that figure was down about 4 percent from January 2008, when Americans averaged 757 miles of car travel per person. And this was no aberration: January 2009 was the fifteenth consecutive month in which the average American drove less than he had a year earlier. This is, historically speaking, highly unusual behavior. If there have been two seemingly immutable trends for the American consumer, they’re that he’s eaten more every year and driven more every year” Read more: Auto Industry Statistics - Nate Silver on Car Culture - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/features/data/nate-silver-car-culture-stats-0609#ixzz2ErRLhr7y

    Nate Silver says the car culture is declining. It must be true.

    “In January, according to statistics compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, Americans drove a collective 222 billion miles. That’s a lot of time spent behind the wheel — enough to make roughly eight hundred round-trips to Mars. It translates to about 727 miles traveled for every man, woman, and child in the country. But that figure was down about 4 percent from January 2008, when Americans averaged 757 miles of car travel per person. And this was no aberration: January 2009 was the fifteenth consecutive month in which the average American drove less than he had a year earlier.

    This is, historically speaking, highly unusual behavior. If there have been two seemingly immutable trends for the American consumer, they’re that he’s eaten more every year and driven more every year”

    Read more: Auto Industry Statistics - Nate Silver on Car Culture - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/features/data/nate-silver-car-culture-stats-0609#ixzz2ErRLhr7y

    December 12, 2012
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      The problem with statistics is what is selected to produce then. The more information included the more accurate....
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      Good point, it doesn’t directly count those that don’t qualify for the eligibility criteria. Regression models are only...
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      Nate Silver!!
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      Nice numbers! Good trend! (BTW where...everyone driving
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      Seriously, marry me Nate Silver.
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      That’s a nice article. It’s from May of 2009 though, so it would be more relevant if Nate (or, you know, whoever)...
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      Nate Silver says the car culture is declining. It must be true. “In January, according to statistics compiled by the...
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      true, EVERYONE GET ON YOUR BIKES
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