I'm still waiting for them to say something interesting. I'm watching
some candidates. I won't commit to sending them my social security
number and birth date until I have evidence that they're credible.
FYI, I enjoy this website re: americans elect:
http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archive
What is everyone (else's) current take on the Americans Elect at this
point? I just took the time to (re)sign up and go through about 100
questions and then looked at the draft candidates and at the "questions"
being put forth for debate by the candidates somewhere down the line.
Overall I wa
Since politics seems to be rearing its ugly head here, I would like to
recommend a book: Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State, by
Andrew Gelman. He is a well-respected statistician and political
scientist at Columbia University. To quote from his web page: " Andrew
has done research
Steve Smith wrote at 03/14/2012 12:34 PM:
> I'm not sure "Statistics are Lies" is precisely accurate. I think
> "Statistics are incomplete" and "Statistics are skewed" come closer but
> *even* more to the point, I think, is "Statistics are used to lie".
I can't resist. ;-) The noun "lie" is int
George Box gave us: "All models are wrong, some are useful" and he was
speaking specifically of *statistical models*... I think the rest of us
apply it a bit more widely, and I don't think that is inappropriate. A
corollary to this might be, "all statistics are wrong, some are useful"?
I'm n
Very nice aggregation .. and interesting. Agreed bias does show through.
I looks like a potentially very close general election. Especially if the
former article is right: once a republican candidate is chosen, the gap
closes. This sounds like a reasonable hypothesis.
-- Owen
On Wed, Mar 1
Personally, I find polls confusing. I like this page:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
that projects multiple polls down to a simpler space. Best I can tell,
the error for the ABC/WaPo poll is is 4 points, the Pew poll is 3
po
This:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-obama-leads-gop-candidates-head-head-contests-151032764.html
is an interesting Pew poll on the whole election scene, Republican primary
as well as an Obama second term.
I'm a bit surprised about the Health Care tie, although is makes sense if
one comp
God this is cool stuff:
- Impact phenomena: direct hits, glancing interactions, comet vs meteor
- Geology: Detective stories of the earth's surface, including new and
improved core sampling and "nano-diamonds"
- Anthropology: Sampling our own history and folk/religious tales for
impact events stori
