Posted inCulture
You’re welcome
Dear Mortgage Holder, Obama's latest plan must sound pretty sweet to you. You bought a house and paid too much for it. It didn't look that way at first because…
Posted inCulture
Site down last night
Update. The site was down all day, from 7:30 am to about 7:00 pm EST. Any comments you made were lost. Please, please post them again. With hope, the site…
Posted inStatistics
Help finding paper.
Two days ago a report appeared in various places announcing the results of a new paper tying malaria to "global warming." I'd like to find the paper but I haven't…
Posted inStatistics
We made Joker!
UPDATE: apologies to those who tried to comment from 1 am to 5 am EST Wednesday. My hosting service was doing maintenance and comments were locked out. All is well…
Posted inFun
For I, James Hansen, Scientist, have spoken
The quotations below are true in spirit. For the original political editorial, click here, which you really should read first. I struggled for a long time to think of an…
Posted inStatistics
Count ’em: The White House should not control the Census
Judd Gregg rann for the door yesterday to escape from being installed as Commerce secretary in Obama's administration. Part of why he got the willies was that he did not…
Posted inCulture
resource: property that can be converted into supplies (Webster)
A friend recently related this, unfortunately not atypical, incident at my friend's company. It was the joyous time of year for personal evaluations. Way they do it at that company…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Theory confirmation and disconfirmation
Time for an incomplete mini-lesson on theory confirmation and disconfirmation. Suppose you have a theory, or model, about how some thing works. That thing might be global warming, stock market…