Statistics about the media: Lorde edition
From @andrewbprice on Twitter: number of articles in the NZ Herald each day about the musician Lorde
The scampi industry, which brings in similar export earnings (via Matt Nippert), doesn’t get anything like the coverage (and fair enough).
More surprisingly, Lorde seems to get more coverage than the mother of our next head of state but two. It may seem that the royal couple is always in the paper, but actually whole weeks can sometimes go past without a Will & Kate story.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »