Monthly Archives: March 2010

Income Inequality, Regression, and Understanding the Residual

Posted on March 18, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Learning from the outliers.
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Posted in Economics, Education, Public Health, Statistics | 6 Comments

Happy Evacuation Day!

Posted on March 17, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

One unique Massachusetts tradition is that, on this day, some tightwad state representative rails against how much Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day cost the state.
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Posted in Boston, Management, WhatEVAH! | 5 Comments

Federal Educational Standards Will Weaken Massachusetts Schools

Posted on March 17, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

With friends like Arne Duncan and the Obama Administration, who needs enemies (or Republicans)?
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Posted in Democrats, Education, Massachusetts | 3 Comments

Tuesday Links

Posted on March 16, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

There’s this big ball of fire in the sky. It scares me, so how about some links?
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Posted in Lotsa Links | 1 Comment

Hannity and Carlson’s War on Entomology

Posted on March 16, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s nothing more than Palinist politics of the blood, with scientists cast in the role of the ‘unreal’ Americans.
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Posted in Conservatives, Funding, Insects, NSF, The War on Science | 11 Comments

David Brooks Gets Obama Wrong

Posted on March 15, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Quelle surprise.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder | 4 Comments

Fear Mongering with Bad Statistics: NY Times and the Cato Institute Confuse Current and Future Obligations

Posted on March 15, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

ZOMG! Penshuns! A really stupid statistic from the Cato Institute.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Social Security, Statistics | 3 Comments

Sunday Links

Posted on March 14, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Still raining. While I’m off building an ark, here are some links for you.
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What Incessant Propaganda About Education Yields: The Boston Phoenix Makes Stuff Up

Posted on March 14, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

If you want to argue that Patrick’s educational program will make the schools better, that’s fine (I’m not sure I agree though). But to claim that they’re underperforming is just flat out wrong.
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Posted in Education, Massachusetts | 6 Comments

Saturday Links

Posted on March 13, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s a very Schlumpy Saturday here. Time for links.
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