fivethirtyeightindex

Explore 21,350 pages from fivethirtyeight.com preserved by the Internet Archive

March 2016

Super Tuesday Will Be Our Best Look Yet At What Voters Think About The Economy
Significant Digits For Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Super Tuesday Could Be Historic For Trump
What Went Down On Super Tuesday
Hillary Clinton’s Got This
Can Republicans Still Take The Nomination Away From Trump?
Elections Podcast: Breaking Down Super Tuesday
Significant Digits For Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Should The NBA Move The 3-Point Line Back?
Elite Prospects Like Ben Simmons Almost Never Miss The Tournament
Donald Trump Is Just Barely On Track To Win The GOP Nomination
Republicans Liked Ben Carson To The End (But Not Enough To Vote For Him)
Significant Digits For Thursday, March 3, 2016
The Supreme Court’s Test For Abortion Laws Is A Poorly Defined Math Problem
The Next Amazon (Or Apple, Or GE) Is Probably Failing Right Now
Bored With ‘Balance’ In Baseball? 2016 Could Be Your Year
What We Can Learn About Drone Strikes From 10 Million Yemeni Cell Phones
Republican Voters Kind Of Hate All Their Choices
What Went Down At The GOP Debate (A Lot)
It’s Time To Start Planning For The Next Recession
Can You Win This Hot New Game Show?
Significant Digits For Friday, March 4, 2016
Americans Are Finally Returning To The Workforce
Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month
Kasich May Have Cut Off Rubio’s Path To The Nomination
Flint Has A Chance To Improve More Than Its Water
A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World
What’s At Stake For Republicans In This Weekend’s Elections
How The States Voted On Semi-Super Saturday
Peyton Manning Had A Hall Of Fame Career. Then He Had Another One.
Clinton Voters Like Obama More Than Sanders Supporters Do
Significant Digits For Monday, March 7, 2016
Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values
Donald Trump Would Be Easy To Stop Under Democratic Rules
SMU And Louisville Are Two Of The Best Teams Ever Banned From The NCAA Tournament
Elections Podcast: Cruz Rising
USA Today’s Embattled Crossword Puzzle Editor Is Stepping Back, For Now
Lakers Over Warriors Was Only The 23rd-Biggest Upset In NBA History
Bloomberg Might Have Produced President Trump
When Political Parties Splinter
Significant Digits For Tuesday, March 8, 2016
This Down Year Could Be Good For Anthony Davis After All
Could Michigan Change The Course Of The GOP Race?
What Went Down In The March 8 Presidential Primaries
What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means
Marco Rubio Never Had A Base
We Now Have Algorithms To Predict Police Misconduct
Significant Digits For Wednesday, March 9, 2016
‘Religious Liberty’ Has Replaced ‘Gay Marriage’ In GOP Talking Points
Elections Podcast: The Biggest Primary Polling Upset Ever
College Presidents Say Race Relations Are Just Fine (Students, Not So Much)
Gonzaga Is A Major Team In A Minor Conference
Why The Polls Missed Bernie Sanders’s Michigan Upset
What Went Down At The Univision Democratic Debate
Significant Digits For Thursday, March 10, 2016
Why Am I Right-Handed?
Americans May Be Too Religious To Embrace Socialism
Ted Cruz Might Still Be Able To Stop Donald Trump
Dear Data And FiveThirtyEight Want You To Visualize Your Podcast Habits
These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most
Donald Trump’s Sweeping Statements On Islam Are In Line With GOP Opinions
How The CNN Republican Debate Played Out
Is Twitter Making Us More Productive?
Significant Digits For Friday, March 11, 2016
Should You Shoot Free Throws Underhand?
San Jose Is The Most Forgettable Major American City
The Big Ideas From This Year’s Sloan Conference
Don’t Sleep On Illinois And Missouri — They Could Help Make Trump Unstoppable
How To Use Our Delegate Tracker
Shane Battier Says Dukies Always Have Two Brackets
From Wallace To Trump, The Evolution of “Law And Order”
How FiveThirtyEight Is Forecasting The 2016 NCAA Tournament
What Trump Supporters Were Doing Before Trump
Significant Digits For Monday, March 14, 2016
Making Sense Of An NCAA Tournament Bracket That Makes No Sense
What’s At Stake For Republicans In The March 15 Primaries
What’s At Stake For Democrats In The March 15 Primaries
Elections Podcast: Violence At Trump Rallies
What Happened In The March 15 Primaries
Significant Digits For Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Can Bernie Sanders Pull Off An Upset In Ohio?
How A Data Scientist Who’d Never Heard Of Basketball Mastered March Madness
The GOP’s Establishment ‘Lane’ May Have Always Been A Dead End
11-Seeds Are Dangerous This Year
Donald Trump Incites His Crowds — And His Crowds Incite Him
How Will Tonight’s Primaries Affect The Presidential Race?
Trump Attack Ads Are Finally Popping Up, But They Might Be Too Late
Five Weird Teams To Watch In The NCAA Tournament
Join Hot Takedown’s March Madness Pool!
Elections Podcast: Ides Of March Reaction
Clinton Is Following Obama’s Path To The Nomination
Significant Digits For Wednesday, March 16, 2016
It’s Still Not Clear That Donald Trump Will Get A Majority Of Delegates
Merrick Garland Doesn’t Pass Scalia’s Diversity Test
Merrick Garland Is The Oldest Supreme Court Nominee Since Nixon Was President
Trump Voters’ Aversion To Foreign-Sounding Names Cost Him Delegates
A Website Went Offline And Took Most Of Women’s College Basketball Analytics With It
Don’t Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At Go
Republicans Could Do A Lot Worse Than Merrick Garland Under President Clinton — Or President Trump
Significant Digits For Thursday, March 17, 2016
No. 16 Seeds Are Due*
Introducing The NCAA Tournament Excitement Index
How Much Did The NCAA Selection Committee Screw Your Team Over?
John Goodman Is America’s Greatest Supporting Actor
How Baseball’s New Data Is Changing Sabermetrics
Doug Rushkoff Says Companies Should Stop Growing
Primary Turnout Means Nothing For The General Election
Can You Best The Mysterious Man In The Trench Coat?
Significant Digits For Friday, March 18, 2016
Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
An Ode To The Rice Cooker, The Smartest Kitchen Appliance I’ve Ever Owned
Late NCAA Bracket Submissions Show We’re A Nation Of Procrastinators
These Are The Only 4 Teams With Any Chance Of Beating The UConn Women
The NCAA Tournament’s Most ‘Where The Hell Is That College?’ Colleges, Ranked
Michigan State And The Biggest NCAA Tournament Upsets Ever
Will Trump Clinch The GOP Nomination Before The Convention?
The World’s Most Prolific Twitter User Tweets Mostly About Nothing
Significant Digits For Monday, March 21, 2016
In Cuba, A Peso Isn’t Always A Peso
The Warriors Convinced Big Schools That Small Ball Works
Texas A&M Pulled Off A 1-in-3,000 Comeback
Elections Podcast: What Is Kasich Doing?
Northern Iowa Played Two Of The Tournament’s Most Exciting Games
The Most Important States On Trump’s Path To 1,237 Delegates
Significant Digits For Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Past Terrorist Attacks Helped Trump Capitalize On Anti-Muslim Sentiment
What To Expect In The GOP Race In Arizona And Utah
How The March 22 Primary Elections Went Down
Why Donald Trump?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, March 23, 2016
It’s The Breanna Stewart Era In College Basketball
Sue Bird Says The WNBA Needs Better Data
Attacks On Transportation Targets Like Those In Brussels Have Become Rarer
The First ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ Was The Blockbuster Nobody Saw Coming
How Far Jeb Bush Is Going To Stop Trump
The Odds Of A Perfect Bracket Are Too Infinitesimal For My Puny Primate Brain
This Survey Is Unwieldy And Intrusive — And Invaluable To Understanding Americans’ Health
When Will The World Really Be 2 Degrees Hotter Than It Used To Be?
Failure Is Moving Science Forward
Significant Digits For Thursday, March 24, 2016
What Will Be The Most Exciting Sweet 16 Game?
Batman And Superman Are Totally BFFs
Prediction: This NCAA Tournament Will Keep Being Bonkers
These Are The Phrases That Sanders And Clinton Repeat Most
Villanova Will Die — Or Live — By The Three
The Job Market Is Pulling In People Who Didn’t Want To Work Before
He Called It America’s Worst Place To Live. Now He’s Moving There.
Should You Pay $250 To Play This Casino Game?
Significant Digits For Friday, March 25, 2016
Trump Will Have A Hard Time Turning Blue States Red In November
‘Waitress’ Is Making Broadway History With Its All-Female Creative Team
What A Two-Front War To Deny Trump The Nomination Could Look Like
All Those New Dinosaurs May Not Be New — Or Dinosaurs
Gonzaga Just Keeps Proving It Never Should Have Been An 11-Seed
Bernie Sanders Continues To Dominate Caucuses, But He’s About To Run Out Of Them
Significant Digits For Monday, March 28, 2016
What The Hell Is Syracuse Doing In The Final Four?
Elections Podcast: Momentum And Misogyny
Updated Odds Of The Warriors Going 73-9
Toast Has Been A Fad For 150 Years
Significant Digits For Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Oh, Hey — There’s Finally An NCAA Men’s Tournament Favorite
Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan
Even The Orioles Have A Shot In The AL East
One Weird Trick To Lose The 2016 Election: Alienate Women
Shut Up About Harvard
Apple’s New Night Mode Doesn’t Mean You Should Take Your Tablet To Bed
It’s Really Hard To Get Bernie Sanders 988 More Delegates
Significant Digits For Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Will We See More Royals Magic In The AL Central?
Hot Takedown’s 2016 MLB Preview
A Baseball Mystery: The Home Run Is Back, And No One Knows Why
How Trump Hacked The Media
Trump’s Call To Punish Women Who Have Abortions Is Way Outside The Mainstream
Significant Digits For Thursday, March 31, 2016
Texas Teams Will Rule The AL West
Wisconsin Could Be Trouble For Trump
The Warriors Have An 85 Percent Chance Of Getting At Least 73 Wins
Why Does The Sun Hurt My Eyes?
Take A Trip Through 174 Years Of Classical Music
Women Earn The Glory While Men Earn The Money In U.S. Soccer