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Where’s my gimme cap?
I’m pretty sure this letter never got sent. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Simpson’s Paradox, revisited
Check out this cool new webpage explaining Simpson’s Paradox. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more
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Death of an Adjunct
We’re going to see a lot more of THIS as colleges and universities cut back on adjunct hours to dodge the Affordable Care Act. But, of course, the humane and sensitive tenured faculty will certainly rush to breach to help out, no? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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How to become a stats-savvy boss…
…in one easy lesson. Go read Alan Downey’s slide presentation “How to be a good consumer of statistical analysis.” Then get yourself some data and start working on those CDF plots. Read more
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Ladies, don’t eat those chicken wings!
You’ll give your unborn son a permanent case of Chicken Dick. This morning, PETA sent a letter to Drew Cerza, founder of the National Buffalo Wing Festival, with an ominous warning: The latest scientific evidence [the Study for Future Families] shows that the sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have Read more
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Some people can’t take a joke
The NSA doesn’t want you to have this t-shirt: So buy one here. A$$holes. Read more
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STEM Shuck and Jive
It’s an article of faith in my profession that America has a chronic shortage of scientific and engineering professionals, so there’s a constant imperative to recruit more students into the STEM disciplines. Turns out this is a wee bit exaggerated: The Georgetown study estimates that nearly two-thirds of the STEM job openings in the United Read more
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Summer Fashion Statements
This one comes with its own explanation: (Tip from Happy Acres) while this one defies explanation. I inadvertently caught Oprah on the Letterman Show a few nights back, and she was wearing that dress. Doesn’t she own a mirror? (Tip from American Digest) Read more
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Academic Publishers Give Science the Business
Here’s a great overview of the business of publishing academic journals. What a racket! Update (3 Sep 2013): The Brazilians have hacked the system. Let the academic infowars begin! Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Think Twice about Grad School
The ‘market” for professors is pretty skimpy today’s academic job market is a “market” in the sense that one stall selling fiddlehead ferns in the middle of a strip mall is a “farmer’s market.” In the place of actual jobs are adjunct positions: benefit-free, office-free academic servitude in which you will earn $18,000 a year Read more
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