Category: education

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    A Politically Correct Mob Attacks Dr. Phil

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

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    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 masks, and I asked myself…

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    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.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    National Debt Info-Graphic by President 1945 – 2012

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

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    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 some to be as revolutionary…