Nate Silver Number Crunches the Salad Bar
Numbers guru Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight.com) penned a brilliant piece for the New York Times today about beating the by the pound salad bar buffet at Whole Foods using the power of math. Obviously, we loved it… but he did forget a few important things (we’re looking at you fruit and fake shrimp!)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 1:15 pm, March 17th, 2011 under Asides.
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A guy going around checking sticker prices for items that are on the salad bar… yeah, that’s pretty much what passes for quality reporting in the NY Times these days
The shareholders should put Sulzberger’s head on a pike on 8th Ave