Mark Richardson

Maybe some people don’t know this, but Glenn McDonald, in addition to being the genius writer who used to pen The War Against Silence every Wednesday night, is also a genius statistician. Every year he crunches numbers for the votes in Pazz & Jop. Each voter’s page lists voters whose taste is similar (McDonald calls it “Empathies”). I can report that every single voter in my Empathies list that I’ve met in person (and I’ve met about half of them) is kind, smart, and interesting. Tribalism at work?

Posted at 11:55pm.