Here as promised, word for word1, is the second exam I gave my introductory statistics students. A prerequisite for the class was at least “Pre calculus”. I emphasize—in italics!—that I have taught […]
Being Against Climate Change Legislation Is Just Like Being For Slavery
Or so implies Andrew J. Hoffman, current sitter in the cushy Holcim chair at the University of Michigan, and writer of the peer-reviewed (I’m guessing) article “Climate change as a cultural and […]
How Much Math Do We Really Need?
That title was lifted from a Washington Post essay by G.V. Ramanathan, a professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For my Twitter- and […]
Certain Oral Activities Linked To Intercourse Onset, New Research Suggests
I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to “New Research Suggests”, for these three words begin most press releases announcing dubious “scientific” results. Whoever first thought of this phrase […]
Texting Leads To Sexting…Leads To Bad Television
Researchers Find What they find is a way to publish yet another study documenting what everybody already knew. According to this article, sent in by reader Jack Mosevich, researchers have discovered that […]
TSA Full-Body Scans Would Not Pass Hospital IRB Reviews
Zzzzaapp! Some angry photons have just been blasted off toward your body, scouting for “contraband.” In the process of the search, these energetic massless particles will kick the crap out of some […]
Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?
Duke Scores Another Own Goal According to Science, Duke University oncologist Anil Potti quit after being caught cheating: Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in tumors that […]
Kids Who Play Video Games Take Longer To Fall Asleep Than Those Who Sit Quietly
This is a follow-up to the post Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School. The original New York Times article quoted the study […]
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