Cautionary Tales Short – Voting in a Monkey as Mayor

Cautionary Tales Short – Voting in a Monkey as Mayor 29th April, 2022

Cautionary Tales episodes are released every other Friday, and so there will be one appearing again next week. Meanwhile, for  Pushkin+ subscribers, I proudly present another Cautionary Tales “Short”.

Shownotes

The main sources on the Hartlepool elections were contemporary reports from The Times, The Guardian and the BBC.

On random promotions, see In Praise of Random Promotions and Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo The Peter principle revisited: A computational study Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications,
Volume 389, Issue 3, 2010.

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Originally posted on: https://timharford.com/2022/04/cautionary-tales-short-voting-in-a-monkey-as-mayor/