Last year, one of my very young doctoral students (who was single), commented in class that she was sure women with more education were less likely to get married. Two older women in the class agreed that was probably true because women with more education were less likely to settle for just any man who…
A few years ago, taking testimony in a court case, an attorney asked me, “Tell me, doctor, have you heard the saying, ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’? Isn’t it true what they say, that you can lie with statistics?” I answered, “Not to me, you can’t.” My point that day was that if the person…
Every day, I get email asking me if I am interested in some affiliate program, link exchange, blah, blah, blah. Obviously, these people do not read my blog because I personally would question the wisdom of affiliating oneself with a person who has called a congressman a lying ass mother-fucker (I was right, too) and…
It’s not often that you read a paragraph and it sticks in your mind for months. That this particular paragraph came not from some great literary work but rather from the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association of Small Computer Users in Education is even more expected, but there it is. Douglas Kranch…