Who hates algebra?
I started this entry Feb. 19, as I was packing stuff to head home from Atlanta, but it got stuck in “have more urgent things to do” land. But now, to comment on Richard Cohen’s I hate math and am proud of it column, What is the value of algebra? Blog responses have included PZ […]
Migration and graduation, from NIH reviewer standpoint
Reviewer comments on my NIH proposal have come back, and the substantive comments make me smile. One of the weaknesses: potential problems associated with the measurement of population mobility. Bingo. I had submitted this proposal before I had finished the article manuscript I submitted in the summer, which sketches the relationship between mobility and graduation […]