Posted inStatistics
Paper churning
It is a cliche, but it is true, that academics must publish or perish. Papers, and more papers, and more papers still, are what makes for a professorial life. It's…
Posted inStatistics
On the growth of government spending: who benefits, the rich or poor?
UPDATE: Reader Stephen Dawson has kindly shown where I made a very stupid error. This error caused me to label the y-axis incorrectly in the third picture below. It also…
Posted inPhilosophy
Just what are falling temperatures evidence of?
If increasing temperatures are consistent with or are evidence of global warming, what theory is consistent with or evidence of falling temperatures? Global warming, too? We have to ask this…
Posted inFun
We made “noteworthy”
Which is one step below "honourable mention", which itself is just under the actual winner. Or, in other words, we lost. Several months ago Roger Kimball instituted a contest: Name…
Posted inFun
Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!
For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…
Posted inStatistics
The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part I
This series originally begin 3 January 2009. This is only Part I; the remaining parts are linked below. INTRODUCTION On 20 September 2004, in the Physics Department at MIT, sponsored…
Posted inCulture
The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II
STUDY DESIGN As I mentioned last time, it is crucial to design a test that eliminates all possibility and suspicion of cheating. If the KIBS kids were going to demonstrate…
Posted inCulture
People with nothing to do will find something to do
Universities have are a long way from what Aristotle had in mind. Full documentation here. At least download and read the letters the University sent to Sampson. Just hilarious.
