It was 85 degrees in soCal today. Just thought I would rub that in for the benefit of my former and present colleagues in the frozen north. The advantage of having a blog as opposed to doing an on-line course is that I can just randomly switch subjects, which in my office is referred to…
We interrupt this discussion of chi-square and other categorical data analysis for a broadcast from the future … My brain is full. After three days of Macworld I have come to a number of conclusions, which I will share with you in random order, thus sparing you the expense, inconvenience and sogginess of traveling to…
SPSS does some pretty cool things, and I have written about some of them here. However, there are also some annoyances. First of all, it is one of the hardest packages to use moving datasets from one format or platform to another. The regular SPSS dataset, the one that ends in .sav crashes many mail…
If you haven’t checked out the site 43thing.coms website, you really should. You can post up to 43 things that you want to do and then add updates as you make progress on your things. As no good idea should ever go uncopied, I decided to write a couple of posts on cool things about…
Every now and then I post a mistake I made using either statistical software or statistics. Students often get discouraged feeling they make so many mistakes and they will never get it all right. No one gets it all right all the time. Obvious mistake of the day …. I was making minor cosmetic changes…
I have been asked several times by students in my classes if I would consider writing a blog on statistics and statistical programming. Apparently, blogs are “in” with people younger than me, as witness daughter #2 at left who has just informed me that people do not use the term “in” any more. Whatever. Giving…
Today I am on my soapbox. These are words to the wise for working people everywhere, but especially to a certain generation – mine – and to a certain gender – women. If “getting the job done” requires that you work 70 hours a week while other people work 40, then the solution is that…
It is has become increasingly evident that there is not an IQ cut-off for being allowed to post on the Internet. I wrote about this a while back in my personal blog, suggesting that if you would not tell 30,000 people individually how drunk you were last night and what you tried to do to…
In the middle of writing a final project report from my old company, I read an interesting article by Walter Kirn on multi-tasking. According to the author, who cites actual science as evidence, we are all becoming progressively dumber due to doing two or three things at once. While talking on the cell phone, we…
…. and I mean poor not in the Biblical sense of poor in spirit but in the Financial Reserve sense of not having money in your checking account. There are so many kinds of software now that it is hard to choose what you absolutely have to have. First on my list of software the…