My statistics professor posted a challenge to our class last night: Find the stat that he is credited with in today’s Tribune. The first student in the class to report back gets a free beer at the “statistics bar” that he always talks about. You know, the place where all manner of statisticians get together [...]
Introduction. I don’t know if you’ve seen The Cradle Will Rock, but – if so – my favorite line from the movie is “Mmmmm mm mm mm-mmm.” The line is supposed to be, “Now who’s the dummy?” and is said by an actual Dummy, as attempted by really bad ventriloquist students, one of whom I’m [...]
(Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis. Click to make bigger) This post is in honor of my statistics course. The Social Science Statistics Blog suggests avoiding the word “regression” (as used in the phrase “multiple regression analysis”). It’s safe to say that their reasoning is different than my reasoning for avoiding the word. However, their [...]
Since school is starting up next week, I thought I’d post a favorite classroom assignment of mine, especially in introductory classes. It’s a comparative community demographic assignment, good for thinking about your own location in the spectrum of social inequality. American FactFinder can be found at the U.S. Census website, and is used by many [...]
Now that I blog, I understand cartoons about blogs. Also thought you’d like some of the posts I’ve been checking out lately [footnote: The cartoon is Pearls Before Swine, and no I can't make it bigger. You can, though, by clicking on Rat]: general sociologyIn honor of the stats course I’m taking next school year, [...]
