Category: education

  • A Politically Correct Mob Attacks Dr. Phil

    I don’t see Dr. Phil’s question about teen sex as offensive.

  • The Internet is not a Safe Haven for being Anonymous when Behaving Badly

    There is no guarantee that being anonymous online offers a safe haven to be abusive to others. Recently, I was in a scuffle with a flock of anonymous voices on Amazon and as I struggled to disengage from the issue, I was warned that I should apologize to all the anonymous voices hiding behind the […]

  • Dealing with Internet Bullies

    No one wins an argument with an Internet bully suffering from disinhibition and anyone may be a victim of disinhibition without knowing it.

  • National Debt Info-Graphic by President 1945 – 2012

    As tax rates dropped for the wealthy, unemployment went up and GDP went down (on average).

  • Originally posted on InsideTimsHead: As the election drew near, many political and stats junkies (like me) became fans of Nate Silver, aka @fivethirtyeight, the shrewd political number-cruncher and blogger for the New York Times. His way of aggregating the most reliable presidential polls into megapolls, and factoring in those polls’ historical accuracies, was considered by…