Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2012
I used to actually be a scholar. A friend of mine saw my name and a colleague’s name in this past weekend’s Boston Globe. For interested readers, had I been following my “ideology” I would have tried hard to refute the result that we published. But the data spoke as clearly as they could given […]
Posted in Education on Mar 26th, 2012
Former high school physics teacher Andrew Knight is mad! Our schools are failing. Rarely does real learning happen in modern classrooms, and when it does, it is often merely a byproduct of each student’s pursuit of an independent and potentially conflicting goal: high grades. … They choose easy teachers. … They harass teachers about grades. […]
Posted in Methodology on Mar 26th, 2012
I’ve suggested to folks that perhaps the best way to improve health outcomes in America is to improve American education. Empirically we know that better educated people have better health outcomes and it is not hard to imagine why. That sounds all well and good. However, today we learn the process works the other way […]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Mar 26th, 2012
April 24th is the day that Armenians use to commemorate a despicable and horrific genocide that was perpetrated on their people by the Turks. I couldn’t wait a month to commemorate it. More on the sick particulars of that below. But I wanted to bring this remembrance up and coin a new fallacy that I […]
