{"id":33241,"date":"2010-11-19T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T00:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2010-11-22T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:20:03","slug":"why-h-l-mencken-is-popular-with-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/19\/why-h-l-mencken-is-popular-with-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Why H. L. Mencken is popular with nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/19\/the-800-pound-mama-grizzly-problem\/\">The 800-Pound Mama Grizzly Problem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Palin, in fact, draws almost as much search traffic worldwide as the man she would face if she wins the Republican nomination: Barack Obama. And her name is searched for about 30 percent more often than the President\u2019s among Google users in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><b>Some members of Ms. Palin\u2019s family also draw as much attention has the other Presidential contenders. <\/b>Todd Palin, her husband, gets about as much search traffic as Mr. Pawlenty. Bristol Palin, her daughter (and a finalist on \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d), gets several times more than any of them (as does her former boyfriend, Levi Johnston).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought of this <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/politicalquiz\/quiz\/index.php\">News IQ Quiz<\/a> from Pew. I got 12 out of 12, which apparently places me in the top 1% of quiz takers? The only question I hesitated on was #11 for what it&#8217;s worth. Check out how different demographics do in the aggregate and by question:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7880\"><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/11\/response.png\" alt=\"response\" title=\"response\" width=\"600\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7881\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 800-Pound Mama Grizzly Problem:<br \/>\nMs. Palin, in fact, draws almost as much search traffic worldwide as the man she would face if she wins the Republican nomination: Barack Obama. And her name is searched for about 30 percent more often than the President\u2019s among Google users in the United States.<br \/>\nSome members of Ms. Palin\u2019s family [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,827,828,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-intelligence","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33424,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions\/33424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}