In the "watch and learn" department here is what the comments below are missing about this story. The author of the story appearing in CNN is John Byrne who is

In the "watch and learn" department here is what the comments below are missing about this story. The author of the story appearing in CNN is John Byrne who is the owner of poetsandquants.com website (of course it could be a coincidence but I don't think that's the case). The article on CNN doesn't disclose this fact. That doesn't make the data inaccurate necessarily but it shows how easy it is to get national media attention for your website at least if you target CNN as the recipient of some good link bating information. This is the "about" page of the poetsandquants.com website: http://poetsandquants.com/about/ http://poetsandquants.com/about/ Not much there, eh?