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February 2, 2011 1:32 PM   Subscribe

Forget turning your pajamas inside out, the kids these days just use a 'snow day predictor' which calculates the probability that their school will cancel snow the following day based on weather predictions, past data, as well well geo data. Via the freakonomics blog.
posted by jourman2 (5 comments total)

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Via the Metafilter blog too I'm afraid.
posted by ND¢ at 1:34 PM on February 2, 2011


Inside out Pjs? Snow days?

I suppose I'd need to be from a city unprepared for a little bit of snow to understand this.
posted by utsutsu at 1:35 PM on February 2, 2011


I'm glad my school never cancelled snow!
posted by grumblebee at 1:39 PM on February 2, 2011


Oh woops, sorry about the double, didn't come up in preview for some reason. There is so more background on the development though on the freakonomics site.
posted by jourman2 at 1:40 PM on February 2, 2011


Also spoons under the pillows. Because obviously.
posted by DU at 1:42 PM on February 2, 2011


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