Saturday, January 26, 2013

Where might Obama rank?

(from Nate Silver)

According to the aggregate of several surveys by historians (that's Silver's methodology), who ranks as our greatest President? (Lincoln should be an easy guess) How about the second best? Washington? Jefferson? The Worst? (btw, it's not a recent one)

Why is JFK ranked so high (served 3 years) and William Henry Harrison so low (served 1 month)?

Interesting read: 

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/contemplating-obamas-place-in-history-statistically/


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