Tuesday, July 07, 2009

What's wrong with being average?

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Yahoo finance has their own list of guest columnists that write opinion pieces on money and investing. They vary greatly in quality, by fa...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Politics and the "Dumb Electorate" Myth

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Around every election season, we routinely hear grumblings from folks that go something like this: Man, people are stupid! If only people w...
Sunday, May 14, 2006

Idle chatter about global warming

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The global warming debate rages on. Many folks think that it's a tempest in a teacup , others think that it's a real sign of human...

Revisiting Prior Odds

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Remember our earlier examples of deciding whether we have a six or twenty sided die? When I glibly divide 1/6 by 1/20 I assume that I am equ...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

My Math is Wrong and I Don't Care

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I'm not a mathematician. In fact, I would most likely irritate any mathematician worth his or her salt. This is because I am sampling ...
Monday, May 01, 2006

Odds, Schmodds.

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I've tried to avoid large amounts of arithmetic, but at this point it seems inescapable. The "odds" math I was talking about ...

Agatha Christie is for Chumps

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Okay, I'll admit it. I watch CSI . I only watch the original show, CSI:Miami and CSI:NY both leave me cold. I also love Quincy and ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

The Best Uses for DNA: The Duke Case Continued

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Another statement I disagree with from the original article: The best use of DNA is excluding someone as the source of a particular sample,...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

The Durham Lacrosse Team Rape Case

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A rape allegation involving Duke University's Lacrosse Team has quickly become a high-profile case. Scores of articles can be uncovered ...