Alberta election results: 19 times out of 20 (if they don’t change their minds)

The election result this week in Alberta, Canada confounded a lot of people and cast the art of polling in a bad light.   The polls  predicted  that the Wildrose Party would win, but they were trounced by the PC Party.  Two days before the election, one poll gave the Wildrose 38% versus the PCs 36%. [...]

misLeading pant sizes-why women aren’t as thin as they think

The Economist magazine is  taking a jab at another sort of inflation. Women’s pant sizes, while nominally the same, have actually been increasing in girth.  The British new magazine estimates that an average size 14 pair of women’s pants  “is now more than four inches wider at the waist than it was in the 1970s.” [...]