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Alterknit educashun polticks
In the alternate reality where pundits and talk-show hosts live, Barack Obama is not going to say Tuesday that students have a personal responsibility to work hard in school. Somehow this is indoctrination, or maybe unseemly politicking for all the 7-year-olds who will be voting in 2012. Though Richard Whitmire and many others are scratching […]
Rising health-care costs are all my fault
It’s true. See what this “friend” wrote me some weeks ago: Oh, so you’re the guy who’s driving up everyone’s premiums with your insatiable demands for weekly colonoscopies. Don’t worry: the TMI in the full entry is about insurance companies, not what the doctors found.
Greg Mankiw provides the laugh of the day
Economist Greg Mankiw provides the unintentional humor of the day: “Smart parents make more money and pass those good genes on to their offspring.” Smart parents years ago miraculously picked employers who survived the Great Recession without laying them off? Smart parents are dumb enough to spend money on expensive private schools and expensive private […]
Stopping by the office on a steamy morning
Whose words these are you darned well know.My house is not on campus, thoughI’ve stumbled in by instinct. Gutshave steered me through the traffic flow. My teenagers must think me nuts.I work when they lie on their… beds;you smile upon their summer ease?Through morning steam the concrete juts and swallows cars and spits out keysand […]
Unhappy with my brain right now
Fuzzy logic Responders/nonresponders Donald Rubin and multiple imputation Dichotomous variables Record linkage: whether a linkage allows one to determine outcome Limits Category theory You have now been infected. That is all (for now).