At a recent meeting of the curriculum committee, a Hillsboro School District official presented a statistic that looked something like this: Mean test score: 73% Margin of error: 9% Adjusted score : 82% Now, for any of us in engineering or other professions that use margins of error, this looked …
[5440 note: Gordon Fulks, PhD, relates the following story of his chance encounter with Global Warming cheerleader James Hansen at his appearance in Oregon on March 20.] On Tuesday, I had no intention of driving all the way to Salem to hear the Great Global Warming Guru James Hansen speak …
You probably saw those “Februany” five, five-dollar, five-dollar foot long commercials that the Subway chain was running last month. As it happens, the offer was good everywhere in the USA except San Francisco. Why? They priced themselves out of it. The city, populated by do-gooders, raised their minimum wage to $10.24 an hour, rendering …
Today on Yahoo! news, there was an article that had all the makings of your typical screed demonizing Conservatives as anti-science flat earthers: Study: Trust in science among educated conservatives plunges But a funny thing happened on the way to characterizing Conservatives as backwards nincompoops. Now don’t get me wrong, …