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Stats: Nick Diaz White House petition to finish 15,000 signatures short of goal

In a guest post, Stanford University research scientist Aashwin Mishra crunched the Nick Diaz petition data and teams with Paul Gift to share the results.

Nick Diaz needs a hundred thousand. Not a hundred grand or a hundred large, but 100,000 signatures. And he needs them by the end of the day on Friday in order to get an official White House response to the five-year suspension and $165,000 fine handed down last month by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC). Will the Nick Diaz petition reach its goal? It should end up roughly 15,000 votes short unless the mixed martial arts (MMA) community steps up to change the current trends.