BACK TO SCHOOL
BACK TO SCHOOL For the last 57 years, I have been going back to school in the fall. Sometimes I returned to class as a student and other times as a professor. My first sojourn was in the late 40’s … Continue reading →
MEAN GIRLS
Search Contents hide Mean Girls Tools Appearancehide Text Width Color (beta) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Mean Girls (disambiguation). “Burn book” redirects here. For the book Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, see Kara Swisher § Books. For the book Burn This … Continue reading →
BEHAVIORAL METHODOLOGIES
BEHAVIORAL METHODOLOGIES This article addresses the antagonism between science and social sciences. It is suggested that labeling be changed, level of acceptance, and use of number systems be more closely examined. Basically, the soft sciences have a name change and … Continue reading →
POLLS
POLLS Back in 1972, the Democrats did not pick an ideal candidate with George McGovern. As the last votes were counted, Senator McGovern had about 29 million votes. His opposition President Richard Nixon had 47 million. So the President won. … Continue reading →
FALSE POSITIVES
THE ASCENSION OF FALSE POSITIVES: MULTIPLE REGRESSION SHOULD BE GIVEN LESS EMPHASIS Multiple Regression is a prestigious statistical strategy. Unfortunately it is flawed. This article will define the term “false positives” an “example” the” premier critic”, “non-fraud errors”, “possible corrections”, … Continue reading →
1968
1968 NEWSWEEK (2007) 11/19 42-63 NEWSWEEK spends over 20 pages on the year, 1968. It is almost the 40th anniversary and thus the magazine spends the time, to tell over forty percent of the population what that year was like. … Continue reading →
AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED
AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED BLLOMBERG/BUSINESSWEEK (2010) 6/6/ PAGE 51 AMERICAS MOST TRUSTED INSTITUTIONS/2010 SMALL BUSINESS 71% CHURCH/SYNAGOGUE 63% HOLLYWOOD 33% MAINSTREAM MEDIA 31% CORPORATIONS 25% CONGRESS 24% BANKS 22%
Continue reading →ALL SUMMER LONG
ALL SUMMER LONG It is summer time in the last half of the 20th century. Now of course, it is a memory. Many folks have that special summer and this is dedicated to those days. The selections come from America’s … Continue reading →
ALPHA BLOGGERS
ALPHA BLOGGERS Levy, Stephen (2004) “ Alpha bloggers” NEWSWEEK, 12/20/2004, E 16 If you blog, you don’t make much money but you can get a lot of power. Some bloggers have such a large readership that they are invited to … Continue reading →
THUD THUNDER
AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN IOWA IN 1937 (EXCERPT) As leader of the soil analysis group #123, we headed north to Dundee and Strawbery Farm. Backbone park was located in the middle of this area. There were 15 of us and I … Continue reading →