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At first glance Luby et al. sounds very relevant. They go on in length about maternal support and maternal nurturance without once defining or operationalising these terms in the main text. Hidden in methods we find they are based on one single 8 minute instance in a highly artificial situation. Read the rest of this entry »
This post is a show of solidarity with another blogger.
Don’t go to Jamaica because it’s a dump and you’ll get murdered with a machete!
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Well, well, social engineers with something to hide are so transparent. As Villeval states „Balafoutas and Sutter find that, with very few exceptions, the most able men are not overtaken by less able women.“, which immediately leads one to ask what about the less able ones? Supplementary figure one tells us: Read the rest of this entry »
Today and after an ordeal of two years Dr Yehuda David was finally acquitted by the French courts. His crime was telling the truth in – as the ruling confirms – restrained and careful wording while providing comprehensive evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
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Science editor Bruce Alberts cuts to the heart of the matter about education. As I frequently told my daughter, hoping repetition would make it stick, „Auswendiglernen ist das Gegenteil von Lernen“ (“learning by heart is the opposite of learning”) or, as Richard Feynman’s father put it Read the rest of this entry »
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Seeing Hore and Crotty it seems some science is still being done.
In a radio talk last week (Funkhausgespräche, WDR 5, 2012-01-26) the physicist Martin Lambeck stated, that if homeopathy did indeed work, it would not just require an addition to current physics but rather result in a total collapse of the edifice of science. Read the rest of this entry »
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Seeing the comments and reply to Halpern I find her original conclusions confirmed, which goes against my preconception, but thus are the facts.
On May 25th I wrote: “[Slimak’s] arguments against moderns are quite convincing too. So, could these be the elusive Denisovans?” Seeing the comment and reply by Zwyns and Slimak I now tend Read the rest of this entry »
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The commentary by Beroza is wrongly listed under geology, it ought to be placed prominently in the social sciences, epidemiology and probably climatology. “A more subtle effect is cherry picking, which amounts to defining retrospectively the behaviour that is considered anomalous… They find, for example, that, when anomalous clusters are defined retrospectively, 30% of realizations of a Poissonian earthquake catalog will contain clusters that should occur less than 1% of the time.” Read the rest of this entry »
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There is a reason for the Flynn-effect and the need to renormalize the test results for each year cohort. In Brinch I fail to see anything more than a simple training effect.
Talk about standing things on their head. It used to be the case, that parents paid to send their children to school and many parents still do. I don’t want that back, as it Read the rest of this entry »
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And once more another proposition of the “our forebears were all idiots”, “tradition is always wrong”, “new and different is always better” school has fallen flat on its face in the light of objective evidence Read the rest of this entry »
