Ms. (Katherine) Milkman (Princeton '04), who has a minor in American studies, read 442 stories printed in The New Yorker from Oct. 5, 1992, to Sept. 17, 2001, and built a substantial database. She then constructed a series of rococo mathematical tests to discern, among other things, whether certain fiction editors at the magazine had a specific impact on the type of fiction that was published, the sex of authors and the race of characters...- David Carr, reporting on Ms Milkman's senior thesis in the NY Times new yorker magazine database | posted by greg at May 31, 2004 11:22 AM | TrackBackAmong Ms. Milkman's least shocking findings was that characters in New Yorker fiction tend to live in the same places New Yorker readers do, not the United States as a whole...
Ms. Milkman is by all accounts, including her own, a normal college student.
