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Check out this week's highlights from Quick and Dirty Tips. Don't forget to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.     The Science Behind How Your Vote Is Counted This week is a big one for us here in the US: we elect our president for the next four years. An estimated 129 million people voted in the 2012 presidential election, only about 55% of those eligible to do so. The process of how all of those votes are collected and then counted and the machinery we rely on to do it accurately are what the Verified Voting group call the "intersection of technology and democracy."  ...Read More 11/04/2016 9:05am View How to Handle Election Season at Work Regardless of which end of the political spectrum you reside, or how much time you invest in politics in general, everyone is caught up with politicians right now. Politics tends to take over our lives in the year leading up to a presidential election-even making its way into the office with colleagues.. ...Read More 11/04/2016 3:05am View How to Eliminate Your Own Unconscious Political Bias It's election time! Suddenly, all our friends are experts in foreign policy, environmental regulation, economics, and all kinds of other things they never talk about except in election years. If only they realized how ignorant, irrational, and hideously unqualified to vote they all sounded. Not like us, of course. We're completely educated on all the issues, rational, and gloriously qualified to vote. That's why it's good to be us!  ...Read More 11/03/2016 9:05pm View "Historic" Versus "Historical" A listener, Denise, wants to know if she should say, "We sell historic replicas" or "We sell historical replicas." Was an event "a historic occasion" or was it "a historical occasion"? These are good questions because it's easy to get these two words confused. They sound alike and their meanings overlap, but the two words are used differently.  ...Read More 11/03/2016 2:05pm View How to Use Statistics to Understand Poll Results Should you believe the results of every political poll you see reported in the news? The short and simple answer is: "no." For me, there are two reasons for this. First, being skeptically natured, I tend not to believe a lot of what I see until I can verify it for myself. ...Read More 11/03/2016 3:05am View     EXPLORE THE QDT STORE   Get ready for school with one (or several!) of Grammar Girl's books. Whether you're tackling a grammar conundrum or simply need advice on crafting effective e-mails, you'll want Grammar Girl at your side. Check out Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, The Ultimate Writing Guide for Students, or one of the other many titles available. Visit the store today.                 Get out and vote! QDT Editorial Team                 Want more tips?  If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 SHARE THIS EMAIL

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