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The latest excuse for our slow economic recovery:  rich folks aren’t spending as much; they’re saving their money.  In my experience, this was inevitable.  Not because wealthy folks have suddenly turned frugal (although there is some of that), but more so because smart "wealthy" folks tend to be  value-oriented rather than price-oriented.  This means that Read more

That’s what it says on Prezi….  Good stuff for UTSA’s Quantiatitive Scholarship program. Tip from Thnik Again! Read more

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The Anonymous Survey Researcher at Bad Research, No Biscuit exposes some shoddy statistics on HDTV, and his commenters conclude it’s an IQ test.  I think it’s just laziness on the part of the original survey group, ORC, and their corporate overlords, infogroup.  Read the article; the take-away lesson is "don’t trust self-reported data" rather than Read more

Chart Wars. Tip from American Digest. Read more

No?  Nathan at Flowing Data gives a list of 30 Resources to Find the Data You Need. Read more

Joe Hart and Gail Dunham are a couple of greed whiners.  They need to pull up their socks, thank God for the virtuosity of Capt Sullenberger, and get on with their lives.  They could look to Fred Berretta or Amber Wells for good examples.  Good or bad, everyone on Flight 1549 will be dining out Read more

Purse-sized Tasers are on the market: Ms. Hanrahan imagines a situation in which a woman is menaced as she makes her way to her car in a parking garage. She points and clicks her Taser at her target, delivering a 30-second shock (the police’s version transmits a 5-second zap) and then drops the Taser and Read more

…This is why most academics can’t dance, their souls are shallow. Tip from The Manolo, by way of Roger Simon at Pajamas Media, by way of the Instapundit. Read more

Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman has died. One of the thoughts he left us was on the War on Drugs: Illegality creates obscene profits that finance the murderous tactics of the drug lords; illegality leads to the corruption of law enforcement officials; illegality monopolizes the efforts of honest law forces so that they are Read more