My niece, Samantha, should be far more trusting at her tender age. She was skeptical – skeptical, I say! – that I once worked at a job where I got so bored that I started coding my SAS statements backwards, typing a semi-colon first and then working backwards, say to PROC . Non-naive nieces aside, it…
First of all, in response to the darling daughters (multiple) who told me this link wasn’t obvious enough, I will begin with EMOTICAMELS !!! Here is the link to sign up to the appsmitten newsletter. Click on it and sign-up CLICK Right Here next to the most annoying gif I could find. CLICK HERE !…
My mother-in-law suspects that her granddaughter is being raised with no adult supervision whatsoever. Her suspicions are correct. This year, The World’s Most Spoiled 14-year-old (she had a birthday this week) is learning physics. The rocket scientist has multiple degrees in physics. The stage would seem to be set for positive developments in science learning. Two…
Last week I mentioned a problem with scoring questions when each of dozens of true/ false questions had not been scored true or false (as one might think) or 1 or 0 (as one might think in mathematical terms) but, no, in some bizarre Alice in Wonderland mushroom-eating logic, each question was recorded as the…
Performance evaluations are nobody’s favorite experience, with the possible exception of a small population of masochists. However, I did enjoy one from a department chair who began, Unlike most new Ph.D. ‘s who believe that they are smarter than God, AnnMaria …. My assumption of less-than-omniscience began with my graduation from the University of Minnesota…
Programming is NOT mostly about writing code. It’s mostly about figuring out how to solve a problem. Here is an example from yesterday…. HOW TO SCORE QUESTIONS WHEN THE ANSWERS ARE IN MULTIPLE VARIABLES I downloaded an SPSS file from surveymonkey which a client had used to collect data. I then output that as a…
Heidi Cohen gives a lot of good advice on getting your blog noticed, very little of which I follow. For one thing, she does not begin by suggesting you have someone bring you a glass of cognac, which is how this particular post started, proving that she may know more about blogging but I’m a…
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…