Friday, March 4, 2016

Now I ain't sayin' they're a speech suppressor...

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I'm posting this a few months late, but free speech is on my mind since watching this debate last night. Also, God help me, I never t...

The Journals of Irreproducibly Irreproducible Results

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A while back I blogged about a study of reproducibility in experimental psychology.  A critique of the methodology has just been published ...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

My first try at SF writing

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I tried writing a short story.  It got rejected.  I probably won't resubmit it elsewhere, because it was written for a rather unique aud...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

No, see, the revolution was just never tried

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In the previous post I noted that personality surveys are the easiest things in the world to game.  I closed with a link to an article on a ...

What is measured improves, but nothing else does

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Oh, good! A recent update to federal education law requires states to include at least one nonacademic measure in judging school performan...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

More about controversial speakers

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At the moment CSULA is saying that Ben Shapiro can speak at some future event that includes an opposing viewpoint.  This sounds nice and ope...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The most painful compromise of my academic career thus far

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The Cal State system has done many things that deeply offend me, and the CSU has forced me to make many compromises, but the very worst comp...