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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part II
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. In no way should college teachers be judged by what research they produce, if any. Lists of papers and books should…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part III
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Colleges themselves---which, I remind us, are to be separated from research institutes---should be broken in two: traditional college and technical or…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part IV
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. I know there wasn't supposed to be a Part IV, but at the risk of boring you, and since this is…
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California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist
The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently…
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“I Can See The Future!”
The future begins tomorrow. This being so, it doesn't seem especially difficult to say what will happen in that uncertain land. Weathermen, and their noble sisters the weatherwomen, daily dispatch…
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Food Deserts: Millions Of Californians Starving Themselves Into Obesity
The blubber is flowing in California. So says that State's venerable University, Los Angeles division. It's an epidemic! Both excessive fatness "increased significantly in just six years". This isn't the…
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Belief In God “Rooted” In Human Nature Say Academics
New research has shown---and by "research" I mean a fact long known to citizens is revealed to academics who attach a p-value to it and publish it---"that suggests that religion…
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A New (Old) View Of Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 11
It is often difficult to keep in mind all the links in a chain of argument when that chain is long.1 This is especially so when one expects that chain…
