Today’s post is at Pajamas Media: Good: Nuclear Doomsday Clock Turned Back; Bad: Board Didn’t Factor In Iran As always, thanks to the editors, particularly David Steinberg and Aaron Hanscom, for coming […]
Pajamas Media: Actually, Weather Is Climate
Today’s post is at Pajamas Media: Actually, Weather Is Climate Once again, thanks to the editors David Steinberg and Aaron Hanscom for coming up with a title and a tagline. Which is […]
How To Use A Poll To Predict Election Winners
The Scott Brown, Martha Coakley race is over. The results are not surprising nor undesirable. This is because anybody who dares call another—close your eyes if you cannot stand foul language—a Yankee […]
Don’t Read This If You Want To Stay Happy
George Will is not a reactionary. He is not known for fireworks. When you think of sober, you think George Will. So when the man writes something like this, we have the […]
Random Samples In Polls Not Needed; Other Common Poll Errors
Pajamas Media—my new pals–conducted, or rather commissioned, their own poll in the Scott Brown-Martha Coakley race. It found, after calling more, but reporting on 946 “likely” voters, Brown ahead by 15.4%, a […]
Health Care Ping Pong Party
From The Hill: House and Senate leaders have formally agreed to bypass a bicameral conference committee to merge two healthcare bills, and have opted to instead “ping-pong” the Senate bill over to […]
Results of Complete Prediction of 2009 NFL Season
Before the 2009 season began, I developed a very simple predictive1 model based solely on each NFL team’s historical record. Here is what was said about the model: I used data from […]
Fruit-of-the-Loom Bomber update
Yesterday, I maligned President Obama. I cast an aspersion that should have remained un-cast. I hurled an insult that should have been left un-hurled. Yes, I was wrong. But I want everybody […]
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