Critical Politics and POVs

How do you remain critical and be affiliated at the same time? I don’t think you can but it is an appropriate thing to contemplate as we celebrate the birth of the nation. Regardless of political affiliation, today is a day that can be politics free if the focus is on the revolutionary spirit and [...]

Data, Central Tendency, and Normalcy

In exploring some old data recently to see if it was publishable, I began to contemplate the things we take for granted in scientific studies. Statistics are so commonly used today that any paper is expected to have a smattering of tests and the all important p-values. (The incorrect use of alpha as inter-changeable with [...]