Licenses

High-water marks for Extra, General, and Tech - I'm still not on board with the hobby is dying crowd. Novice and Advanced can only go down - deaths, expirations.

Month	Extra	Advanced	General	Technician	Novice	ARS Total
Oct-15	139,309	48,631	172,276	361,564	11,104	732,884

Source

Men are from Wikipedia and Women are from Pinterest

MarcusLilley 87% of contributors to Wikipedia are male and 87% of Pinterest users are female, startling stat #ftmedia12Wed, Mar 07 09:13:05 from TweetDeck retweeted by tim

The Most Hams Ever

Amateur Radio Sees Tremendous Growth in 2011: "As the third quarter of 2011 came to a close, ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, began calculating the number of licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US, as well as the number of new licensees. “At the end of September, I saw that the number of hams in the US was high,” she said. “When I started comparing that number with other years, I found that it was an all-time high.” For the first time, there are more than 700,000 radio amateurs in the US."

This is why I love sports

Wes Rucker has done the analysis and the Vols can finish anywhere from 2nd to 5th in the East depending on the outcome of three games this week-end.

Here is the best scenario:

"Alabama beats Georgia, Florida beats Vanderbilt, Tennessee beats Kentucky
1. Florida 13-3
2. Tennessee 9-7
3. Kentucky 9-7
4. Vanderbilt 9-7
5. Georgia 9-7"

Who is misinformed?

From the "How the World Works" video below...

You may have seen the study showing that Fox News Viewers are largely misinformed. Except they aren't - unless you ignore:

- The study didn't test what it claimed.
- The data collected supported opposite conclusions.
- The researchers cited disputed citations as fact.
- and more!



It reminds of:
Using statistics means you never have to say you lied.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
98% of all stats are made up.