Category: Dr. De Mars General Life Ramblings

The Worst Marketing in the World

I heard people on the internet like to look at pictures of cats but I don’t own a cat, so please look at this jack-o-lantern from the night they had scuba divers doing pumpkin carving underwater at the Long Beach Aquarium. The truth to how I get business – I answer the phone I get

The Blog Hour

To fight off quarantine boredom, my granddaughter, Eva, and I have a nightly blogging challenge. Feel free to join us.

Being (less) stressed during a pandemic

Want to be stressed less? Start your day with something you look forward to and check out what your public library has to offer (yes, really)

Everything is NOT just fine

If you think you should be feeling as if everything is fine, STOP IT! Everything is NOT fine. Even if you are healthy and your rent is paid, there is still a pandemic.

5 Basics of Consulting Success: Part 1

Of all the qualities necessary to be a successful statistical consultant, none is more important than communication, even if that communication is only with your future self.

The one skill a statistical consultant must have

There are actually 5 strengths you need to be a successful statistical consultant; communication, testing, statistics (duh), programming and general knowledge outside of your field.

7 Tips to Not Getting Screwed by Your Data

First of all, I want to draw your attention to this retraction in the Journal of the American Medical Association and mad props to Drs. Aboumatar and Wise and John Hopkins for doing the right thing in publicly retracting it. For the TL; DR crowd Someone who is probably now unemployed miscoded the study groups