Unlike her, top people today are a little younger: an average age of 57 for our sample as against 58 in 1972.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

As always, we'll be bringing you a little bit of everything over the next few days, letting you sample the best of SIGGRAPH from the comfort of your own device -- head over to our SIGGRAPH 2012 tag to follow along.

ENGADGET: We're live from SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles!

Not because of Charles Dickens adaptations (Little Dorrit notwithstanding) but because a generation ago, viewers were eager to sample, and maybe even embrace, the new stuff the networks were turning out.

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There is some debate as to how exact defensive statistics are, but there is little question that they separate the good from the bad, especially with a large sample size.

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With such a small sample those falls could seriously distort the average spending per beneficiary enough to rank my little hospital in a lower tier.

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