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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
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Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
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Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
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More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
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Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Budweiser Clydesdales.--- http://www.youtube.com/embed/PU92XeqhRSA
Brian Greene
Breaks Down Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves for Stephen Colbert ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/brian-greene-breaks-down-einsteins-theory-of-gravitational-waves-for-stephen-colbert.html
Watch the doll's eyes
as he writes with pen and paper ---
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/
Thank you Bob Overn for the heads up
Free music downloads
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Music and
Pictures from My Youth ---
http://nethugs.com/interesting/memories-of-the-1950s/#xBiaK1gChMVywClz.0clz.o
Click on the arrow
Also go to
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm#JukeBox
Buddy Holly
http://nethugs.com/interesting/memories-of-the-1950s/#xBiaK1gChMVywClz.0clz.o
Also go to
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm#JukeBox
Hear the Unique, Original Compositions of George Martin,
Beloved Beatles Producer (RIP) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/the-unique-original-compositions-of-george-martin.html
1,000 Hours of Early Jazz Recordings Now Online:
Archive Features Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & Much More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/vast-archive-presents-1000-hours-of-early-jazz-recordings-a-great-resource-for-jazz-novices-aficionados.html
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks
(1937-2001) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/the-history-of-electronic-music-in-476-tracks-1937-2001.html
Web outfits like Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and
mobile content that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2
Pandora (my favorite online music station) ---
www.pandora.com
TheRadio
(online music site) ---
http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza: Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) ---
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live ---
http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings
---
http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free music selections online ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Music and
Pictures from My Youth ---
http://nethugs.com/interesting/memories-of-the-1950s/#xBiaK1gChMVywClz.0clz.o
Click on the arrow
Amazing Photos of
the Sahara Desert's Lost Libraries ---
https://weather.com/travel/news/huniewicz-lost-libraries-sahara-desert
Earth View from Google --- https://earthview.withgoogle.com/
Science Captured as
Beautiful Works of Art ---
http://qz.com/634928/photos-science-captured-as-beautiful-works-of-art/
Street View, Then & Now: New York's Fifth Avenue (photographic history) --- http://publicdomain.nypl.org/fifth-avenue/
Scott Kelly's
Photographs From a Year on the Space Station ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-scott-kelly-instagram-2016-3
Download 1800 Fin de Siècle French Posters & Prints
in High-Resolution: Iconic Works by Toulouse-Lautrec & Many More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/download-1800-fin-de-siecle-french-posters-prints-in-high-resolution.html
Smithsonian's
Staggering Photo Competition ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2016-02-29/see-the-world-through-smithsonian-s-staggering-photo-competition
Brooklyn Street Art --- http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/
See the First
Image of the Air Force’s New Long Range Bomber ---
http://time.com/4240055/air-force-bomber-b-21/?xid=newsletter-brief
Download All 36
of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Stunning High Resolution)
---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/download-all-36-of-jan-vermeers-beautifully-rare-paintings-many-in-stunning-high-resolution.html
10 haunting photos of Idaho's Atomic City, 30 years
after nuclear disaster drove everyone away ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-atomic-city-nuclear-disaster-30-years-later-2016-3
Mongolian Cowboys
---
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/mongolian-cowboys-slideshow/monogolian-cowboys-photo-1456677202915.html
Gorgeous color photos from the Great Depression show
life in one of America's darkest times ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/color-photos-of-great-depression-america-2016-3
Bob Jensen's
threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's
threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
The Concise
Encyclopedia of Economics ---
http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html
Don't forget that most of the terminology can be found in greater detail in
Wikipedia
11 Essential Feminist Books: A New Reading List by
The New York Public Library ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/essential-feminist-books.html
Revisiting John
Williams, Novelist and Editor (Collection of Shorter Poems) ---
http://daily.jstor.org/john-williams-novelist-editor/
Gardening and the
Secret of Happiness ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/29/robin-wall-kimmerer-braiding-sweetgrass/?mc_cid=d58c766e05&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Glossary of Poetic Terms --- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on March 15, 2016
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations031516.htm
U.S. National Debt Clock ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Also see
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
National debt just reached a record $19 trillion (plus over #100 trillion in
unbooked entitlements burdening future generations in the USA)
Martin Matishak and Eric Pianin,
The Fiscal Times
http://www.businessinsider.com/national-debt-reaches-record-19-trillion-2016-2
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget. Entitlement spending has
grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all American households now rely
on government handouts. When we hear statistics like that, most of us shake our
heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s because nobody thinks they’re
the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re the problem. But that’s not the
truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to think of the rising entitlement
culture in America as someone else’s problem, someone else’s fault, we’ll never
truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely zero chance...
Steve Tobak
---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
P-Value --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
ASA = American Statistical Association
The ASA's statement on p-values: context, process, and purpose ---
http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
David Johnstone from Australia gave me permission to broadcast his reply to the AECM with respect to the attached paper from the American Statistical Association.
The ground is shaking beneath the accountics science
foundations upon which all accounting doctoral programs and the prestigious
accounting research journals are built. My guess is, however, that the
accountics scientists are sleeping through the tremors or feigning sleep
because, if they admit to waking up, their nightmares will become real!
"A Scrapbook on What's Wrong with the Past, Present and Future of Accountics
Science"
by Bob Jensen
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccounticsWorkingPaper450.pdf
Bob Jensen
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Dear Sudipta and Bob, thanks for sending this Sudipta, it was actually written up in the local newspaper (Sydney Morning Herald) the other day. There has also been a series of articles on economic modelling that starts with the conclusion and works back to the argument. People are waking up to rorts slowly but inevitably, it seems.
There are multi-million dollar industries (e.g. “accounting research”) that depend on p-levels and would need a big clean out and recanting/retraining if the tide were to turn. I think that the funding bodies (e.g. taxpayers) are starting to smell rats, so life is going to be different for younger researchers in 10 years I suspect. Much more scepticism about supposed “research”.
I have been toying with writing a book on the P-level problem. I used to be excited about this stuff, I thought it was deeply interesting and other people would also find it interesting. I didn’t realize that most researchers are not intrinsically interested in the techniques they use, and I also didn’t realize that most will resist bitterly anything that makes their lives less glamorous and their self-image less wonderful. This is what I see as the “positive theory of accounting researchers”.
Great to have a couple of old fashioned academics to talk to on this.
By the way, all the young statisticians schooled in Bayesian theory know about the issues with P-levels, and they are breeding up in computer science and elsewhere.
Tom Dyckman’s paper on P-levels is coming out in Abacus 2nd issue 2016. In that same issue is an excellent survey paper by Jeremy Bertomeu on cost of capital etc, which will give that issue further credibility and hopefully prompt some extra readers to see Tom’s paper.
David Johnstone
Jensen Comment
Note that the following article has enormous implications for what is taught in
most Ph.D. programs in the social sciences, business, accounting, finance, and
other academic disciplines. Regression analysis has become the key to the
kingdom of academic research, a Ph.D. diploma, journal article publication,
tenure, and performance rewards in the Academy. Now the sky is falling, and soon
researchers skilled mostly at performing regression analysis are faced with the
problem of having to learn how to do real research.
Regression Analysis --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis
Richard Nisbett --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Nisbett
"The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis A Conversation With Richard
Nisbett," Edge, January 21, 2016 ---
http://edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis
A huge range of science projects are done with multiple regression analysis. The results are often somewhere between meaningless and quite damaging. ...
I hope that in the future, if I’m successful in communicating with people about this, that there’ll be a kind of upfront warning in New York Times articles: These data are based on multiple regression analysis. This would be a sign that you probably shouldn’t read the article because you’re quite likely to get non-information or misinformation. RICHARD NISBETT is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking; and The Geography of Thought. Richard Nisbett's Edge Bio Page.
THE CRUSADE AGAINST MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
The thing I’m most interested in right now has become a kind of crusade against correlational statistical analysis—in particular, what’s called multiple regression analysis. Say you want to find out whether taking Vitamin E is associated with lower prostate cancer risk. You look at the correlational evidence and indeed it turns out that men who take Vitamin E have lower risk for prostate cancer. Then someone says, "Well, let’s see if we do the actual experiment, what happens." And what happens when you do the experiment is that Vitamin E contributes to the likelihood of prostate cancer. How could there be differences? These happen a lot. The correlational—the observational—evidence tells you one thing, the experimental evidence tells you something completely different.The thing I’m most interested in right now has become a kind of crusade against correlational statistical analysis—in particular, what’s called multiple regression analysis. Say you want to find out whether taking Vitamin E is associated with lower prostate cancer risk. You look at the correlational evidence and indeed it turns out that men who take Vitamin E have lower risk for prostate cancer. Then someone says, "Well, let’s see if we do the actual experiment, what happens." And what happens when you do the experiment is that Vitamin E contributes to the likelihood of prostate cancer. How could there be differences? These happen a lot. The correlational—the observational—evidence tells you one thing, the experimental evidence tells you something completely different.
In the case of health data, the big problem is something that’s come to be called the healthy user bias, because the guy who’s taking Vitamin E is also doing everything else right. A doctor or an article has told him to take Vitamin E, so he does that, but he’s also the guy who’s watching his weight and his cholesterol, gets plenty of exercise, drinks alcohol in moderation, doesn’t smoke, has a high level of education, and a high income. All of these things are likely to make you live longer, to make you less subject to morbidity and mortality risks of all kinds. You pull one thing out of that correlate and it’s going to look like Vitamin E is terrific because it’s dragging all these other good things along with it.
This is not, by any means, limited to health issues. A while back, I read a government report in The New York Times on the safety of automobiles. The measure that they used was the deaths per million drivers of each of these autos. It turns out that, for example, there are enormously more deaths per million drivers who drive Ford F150 pickups than for people who drive Volvo station wagons. Most people’s reaction, and certainly my initial reaction to it was, "Well, it sort of figures—everybody knows that Volvos are safe."
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Drawing Inferences From Very Large Data-Sets
David Johnstone wrote the following:
Indeed if you hold H0 the same and keep changing the model, you will eventually (generally soon) get a significant result, allowing "rejection of H0 at 5%", not because H0 is necessarily false but because you have built upon a false model (of which there are zillions, obviously).
"Drawing Inferences From Very Large Data-Sets," by David Giles, Econometrics
Beat: Dave Giles� Blog, University of Victoria, April 26, 2013 ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/2011/04/drawing-inferences-from-very-large-data.html
. . .
Granger (1998; 2003) has reminded us that if the sample size is sufficiently large, then it's virtually impossible not to reject almost any hypothesis. So, if the sample is very large and the p-values associated with the estimated coefficients in a regression model are of the order of, say, 0.10 or even 0.05, then this really bad news. Much, much, smaller p-values are needed before we get all excited about 'statistically significant' results when the sample size is in the thousands, or even bigger. So, the p-values reported above are mostly pretty marginal, as far as significance is concerned. When you work out the p-values for the other 6 models I mentioned, they range from to 0.005 to 0.460. I've been generous in the models I selected.
Here's another set of results taken from a second, really nice, paper by Ciecieriski et al. (2011) in the same issue of Health Economics:Continued in article
Jensen Comment
My research suggest that over 90% of the recent papers published in The
Accounting Review use purchased databases that provide enormous sample sizes
in those papers. Their accountics science authors keep reporting those
meaningless levels of statistical significance.
What is even worse is when meaningless statistical significance tests are used to support decisions.
"Statistical Significance - Again " by David Giles, Econometrics
Beat: Dave Giles� Blog, University of Victoria, December 28, 2013 ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2013/12/statistical-significance-again.html
Statistical Significance - Again
With all of this emphasis on "Big Data", I was pleased to see this post on the Big Data Econometrics blog, today.
When you have a sample that runs to the thousands (billions?), the conventional significance levels of 10%, 5%, 1% are completely inappropriate. You need to be thinking in terms of tiny significance levels.
I discussed this in some detail back in April of 2011, in a post titled, "Drawing Inferences From Very Large Data-Sets". If you're of those (many) applied researchers who uses large cross-sections of data, and then sprinkles the results tables with asterisks to signal "significance" at the 5%, 10% levels, etc., then I urge you read that earlier post.
It's sad to encounter so many papers and seminar presentations in which the results, in reality, are totally insignificant!
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs,
Justice, and Lives, by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 978-472-05007-9, 2007) ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
Page 206
Like scientists today in medical and economic and
other sizeless sciences, Pearson mistook a large sample size for the definite,
substantive significance---evidence s Hayek put it, of "wholes." But it was as
Hayek said "just an illusion." Pearson's columns of sparkling asterisks, though
quantitative in appearance and as appealing a is the simple truth of the sky,
signified nothing.
pp. 250-251
The textbooks are wrong. The teaching is wrong. The
seminar you just attended is wrong. The most prestigious journal in your
scientific field is wrong.
You are searching, we know, for ways to avoid being wrong. Science, as Jeffreys said, is mainly a series of approximations to discovering the sources of error. Science is a systematic way of reducing wrongs or can be. Perhaps you feel frustrated by the random epistemology of the mainstream and don't know what to do. Perhaps you've been sedated by significance and lulled into silence. Perhaps you sense that the power of a Roghamsted test against a plausible Dublin alternative is statistically speaking low but you feel oppressed by the instrumental variable one should dare not to wield. Perhaps you feel frazzled by what Morris Altman (2004) called the "social psychology rhetoric of fear," the deeply embedded path dependency that keeps the abuse of significance in circulation. You want to come out of it. But perhaps you are cowed by the prestige of Fisherian dogma. Or, worse thought, perhaps you are cynically willing to be corrupted if it will keep a nice job
Bob Jensen's threads on the often way analysts, particularly accountics
scientists, often cheer for statistical significance of large sample outcomes
that praise statistical significance of insignificant results such as R2
values of .0001 ---
The Cult of Statistical Significance: How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice,
and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
Those of you interested in tracking The
Accounting Review's trends in submissions, refereeing, and
acceptances'rejections should be interested in current senior editor
Mark L. DeFond's
annual report at
http://aaajournals.org/doi/full/10.2308/accr-10477
This has become a huge process involving 18 editors and hundreds of referees.
TAR is still the leading accountics science journal of the American Accounting
Association. However, there are so many new specialty journals readers are apt
to find quality research in other AAA journals. TAR seemingly still does not
publish commentaries and articles without equations and has not yet caught on
the the intitiatives of the Pathways Commission for more diversification in
research in the leading AAA research journal. Virtually all TAR editors still
worship p-values in empirical submissions.
"Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain
P-values," by Christie Aschwanden, Nate Silver's 5:38 Blog, November
30, 2015 ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/not-even-scientists-can-easily-explain-p-values/
P-values have taken quite a beating lately. These widely used and commonly misapplied statistics have been blamed for giving a veneer of legitimacy to dodgy study results, encouraging bad research practices and promoting false-positive study results.
But after writing about p-values again and again, and recently issuing a correction on a nearly year-old story over some erroneous information regarding a study’s p-value (which I’d taken from the scientists themselves and their report), I’ve come to think that the most fundamental problem with p-values is that no one can really say what they are.
Last week, I attended the inaugural METRICS conference at Stanford, which brought together some of the world’s leading experts on meta-science, or the study of studies. I figured that if anyone could explain p-values in plain English, these folks could. I was wrong.
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Jensen Comment
Why all the fuss? Accountics scientists have a perfectly logical explanation.
P-values are numbers that are pumped out of statistical analysis software
(mostly multiple regression software) that accounting research journal editors
think indicate the degree of causality or at least suggest the degree of
causality to readers. But the joke is on the editors, because there aren't any
readers.
November 30, 2015 reply from David Johnstone
Dear Bob, thankyou for this interesting stuff.
A big part of the acceptance of P-values is that they easily give the look of something having been found. So it’s an agency problem, where the researchers do what makes their research outcomes easier and better looking.
There is a lot more to it of course. I note with young staff that they face enough hurdles in the need to get papers written and published without thinking that the very techniques that they are trying to emulate might be flawed. Rightfully, they say, “it’s not my job to question everything that I have been shown and to get nowhere as a result”, nor can most believe that something so established and revered can be wrong, that is just too unthinkable and depressing. So the bandwagon goes on, and, as Bob says, no one cares outside as no one much reads it.
I do however get annoyed every time I hear decision makers carry on about “evidence based” policy, as if no one can have a clue or form a vision or strategy without first having the backing of some junk science by a sociologist or educationist or accounting researcher who was just twisting the world whichever way to get significant p-values and a good “story”. This kind of cargo-culting, which is everywhere, does great harm to good or sincere science, as it makes it hard for an outsider to tell the difference.
One thing that does not get much of a hearing is that the statisticians themselves must take a lot of blame. They had the chance to vote off P values decades ago when they had to choose between frequentist and Bayesian logic. They split into two camps with the frequentists in the great majority but holding the weakest ground intellectually. The numbers are moving now, as people that were not born when de Finetti, Savage, Lindley, Kadane and others first said that p-values were ill-conceived logically. Accounting, of course, being largely ignorant of there being any issue, and ultimately just political, will not be leading the battle of ideas.
January 28, 2016 reply from Paul Williams
Bob,
Thank you for this. In accounting the problem is even worse because at least in other fields it is plausible that one can have "scientific" concepts and categories. Archival research in accounting can only deal with interpretive concepts and the "scientific" categories are often constructed for the one study in question. We make a lot of s... up so that the results are consistent with the narrative (always a neoclassical economic one) that informs the study. Measurement? Doesn't exist. How can one seriously believe they are engaged in scientific research when their "measurements" are the result of GAAP? Abe Briloff described our most prestigious research (which Greg Waymire claimed in his AAA presidential white paper "...threatens the discipline with extinction."). as simply "low level financial statement analysis." Any research activity that is reduced to a template (in JAE the table numbers are nearly the same from paper to paper) you know you are in trouble. What is the scientific value of 50 control variables, two focus independent variables (correlated with the controls), and one dependent variable that is always different from study to study? This one variable at a time approach can go on into infinity with the only result being a huge pile of anecdotes that no one can organize into any coherent explanation of what is going on. As you have so eloquently and relentlessly pointed out accountants never replicate anything. In archival research it is not even possible to replicate since the researcher is unable to provide (like any good scientist in physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) a log book providing the detailed recipe it would take to actually replicate what the researcher has done. Without the ability to independently replicate the exact study, the status of that study is merely an anecdote. Given the Hunton affair, perhaps we should not be so sanguine about trusting our colleagues. This is particularly so since the leading U.S. journals have a clear ideological bias -- if your results aren't consistent with the received wisdom they won't be published.
Paul
Bob Jensen's threads on statistical mistakes ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/temp/AccounticsScienceStatisticalMistakes.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
"A Scrapbook on What’s Wrong with the Past, Present a nd Future of
Accountics Science," by Bob Jensen, Working Paper 450.06, Date Fluid ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsWorkingPaper450.06.pdf
The purpose of this paper is to make a case that the accountics science monopoly of our doctoral programs and publish ed research is seriously flawed, especially its lack of concern about replication and focus on simplified arti ficial worlds that differ too much from reality to creatively discover findings of greater relevance to teachers of accounting and practitioners of accounting. Accountics scientists themselves became a Cargo Cult.
Gaming for Tenure as an Accounting Professor ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTenure.htm
(with a reply about tenure publication point systems from Linda Kidwell)
Apple gets smacked by $450-million e-book price-fixing fine ---
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-gets-smacked-by-450-million-e-book-price-fixing-fine/
Publishers are also unhappy with the Supreme Court's decision. At Amazon headquarters, however, they're probably popping open the champagne.
The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear Apple's appeal of a lower court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices. Apple must now pay $450 million as part of its anti-trust e-book settlement. Amazon, however, is probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
Continued in article
Ransomware --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
Next Ransomware virus
target is you car ---
http://readwrite.com/2016/03/08/car-hack-ransomware-part-two
Jensen Comment
I was at a New Years Eve dinner party when our host lamented that he'd been hit
by Ransomware on his PC. One of the guests, an enthusiastic advocate of Apple
computers, bragged that Apple computers were immune from Ransomware.
Hackers Target Apple Users With Ransomware --- http://www.newsweek.com/hackers-apple-users-ransomware-433906
Jensen Comment
Apple quickly reacted to block this virus, but it does reveal that kidnappers of
data know Apple's vulnerability as well as Windows much worse vulnerability.
Nine tips for Microsoft Powerpoint
for Chartered Accountants ---
https://www.icas.com/ca-today-news/top-tips-for-microsoft-powerpoint
Is this extreme grade inflation or what?
"Bill Gates Never Attended Any
Classes He Signed up for at Harvard --- But He Got As Anyway," by Megan
Willett, Tech Insider via Business Insider, March 9, 2016 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-never-attended-class-at-harvard-2016-3
Bob Jensen's threads on the grade inflation scandal across
the USA ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
Smart Watch and Other Device Cheating
Eye Openers.
Go to
https://www.bing.com/
Enter
"Smart Watch Cheating"
TechSmith Blog: Learn Some Great Video Tricks
and Tools of the Trade ---
http://blogs.techsmith.com/?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=dnl77&utm_campaign=tsc&spMailingID=50885351&spUserID=Mzk1NjE2NTkyMTYS1&spJobID=881279152&spReportId=ODgxMjc5MTUyS0
United Airlines Passengers Will Soon Be More ---
United
http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/united-adding-seats/#gUMR97cbjGqq
40% of government bonds in Europe now trade
with negative interest rates ---
http://ritholtz.com/2016/03/negative-interest-rates-40-outstanding-european-government-bonds/
I think European universities need to upgrade the economics curriculum
Governor Cuomo wants to stop funding
one-third of CUNY four-year colleges' budget. Where will the money come from?
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/11/new-fiscal-year-approaches-who-will-fund-cunys-senior-colleges?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=b5d583b912-DNU20160311&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-b5d583b912-197565045
The title is somewhat but not entirely misleading. The Governor wants to cut NY State support of New York City's CUNY colleges and have the funds replaced by other sources. However, the term "other sources" is not yet defined by the Governor. Seems like it's time to consult with creative accountants.
"Rethinking Gen Ed,"
by Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, March 10, 2016 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/10/undergraduate-curricular-reform-efforts-harvard-and-duke-suggest-theres-no-one-way?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ae1de344d-DNU20160310&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ae1de344d-197565045
Amid concerns that requirements may not mean much to students or professors, Harvard and Duke Universities both look to curricular changes to improve undergraduate education.
Jensen Comment
Amidst the turf wars where some academic disciplines low on numbers of majors
depend upon including their basic courses in the Gen Ed core. Harvard led the way
by making the Gen Ed core a smorgasbord of courses from nearly all academic
disciplines. This, in turn, led to gamesmanship on the part of students to
choose the easiest courses rather than traditional courses that traditionally
part of gen ed. The closest that students may ever get to Shakespeare and
calculus or civics may now be in high school.
What is sadly lacking in most core requirements or even alternatives in the gen ed core is financial literacy even though financial ignorance is probably the leading cause of too much consumer debt and divorce in the USA.
"The
Trends Report: 10 Key Shifts in Higher Education,"
Chronicle of Higher
Education Special Report, February 29, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/specialreport/The-Trends-Report-10-Key/32
Executive Summary
---
http://chronicle.com/article/An-Executive-Summary/235454?cid=cp32
Welcome to our second annual Trends Report. The past year has seen plenty of upheaval in higher education — student protests over racial inequality, controversies over free speech and so-called trigger warnings, rising complaints over the handling of campus sexual-assault cases, scandals involving academic research, questions about the value of a degree, and more. Look at some of the words that describe this year’s trends: "beware," "productivity," "reactive," "scrutiny," and "survive." If there’s a pattern here (or a meta-trend?), it’s that higher education continues to be on the defensive, under growing pressure to respond to critics on and off campus. To stay ahead of their critics, college leaders need to stay ahead of the curve. We hope The Trends Report can help.
Our coverage spells out 10 key shifts in higher education. We examine what’s working (and what’s not), and offer case studies, expert commentary, and resources you can use to start a conversation or a program on your own campuses. Think of it as a briefing on what informed college leaders need to know in 2016.
Meanwhile, the trends we identified last year haven’t exactly faded into oblivion. You’ll notice that several of them — most notably, challenges to free speech, an emphasis on helping students build careers, and the influence of social media — have evolved and taken on new forms for this year’s list.
Here are the 10 higher-education trends identified by our reporters and editors, with help from people whose jobs put them on the front lines of academe every day
■
A fresh wave of attacks on free speech, often coming from students.
Instructors (and even student debaters) are under pressure to provide students
with trigger warnings, meant to warn them of potentially upsetting topics. Also
contributing to the trend are student protests denouncing a hostile campus
climate, and the emergence of watchdog groups that scrutinize campus speech for
bias. Some colleges are fighting back.
■ Efforts by colleges to combat sexual assault by creating new cultural norms on
the campus.
Under pressure to make sure their handling of sexual-assault cases will stand up
under Title IX, some institutions are proactively educating students about the
meaning of consent and the importance of intervening to prevent sexual violence.
■ The growing use of metrics to measure faculty productivity.
Colleges have new tools to see how their professors stack up, and they’re not
afraid to use them. Faculty critics say the tools provide an incomplete and
inaccurate picture of their jobs.
■ The need for college leaders to react quickly to events that could quickly
spin out of control.
"Reactive" used to be seen as a negative label, but in the age of social media,
when leaders can no longer control the campus agenda, the ability to react has
become a survival skill.
■ Widespread attacks on shared governance.
The traditional model of shared governance is eroding as more governing boards
make unilateral changes that ignore faculty opinion, such as appointing someone
from outside academe as president. Boards are reacting to fiscal pressure,
political heat, and complaints about the cost and value of a degree.
■ The outsourcing of services that are a core part of a college’s mission.
It’s not unusual for colleges to turn the operation of campus bookstores and
cafeterias over to private companies, but now they’re also outsourcing some key
academic services, like advising and even teaching.
■ Increased scrutiny of academic research.
Corporate influence and outright fraud have undermined the credibility of
scientific research. Meanwhile, some fields have been tainted by research
scandals involving fabrication and the inability to replicate results.
■ A movement to overhaul the college transcript.
Some colleges are adding new types of information to transcripts to better
reflect what students have learned and accomplished. An expanded and digitized
transcript may lead to "the quantified student," but it could also provide a
powerful accountability metric that allows colleges to track graduates.
■ The rise of the instructional designer.
As online learning and new classroom technologies spread, the demand for
instructional designers — who develop courses that others may teach — is
growing.
■ A reliance on better marketing to survive enrollment challenges and create a
stronger institutional identity.
The golden rule: Know who your students are, and figure out how best to serve
them.
We hope you find The Trends Report helpful. Let us know what you think at chronicle.com/trends.
The report is not free unless you subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education. It might be available from your campus library.
Jensen Comment
There are many trends not included above or included with a wide brush in the
Executive Summary. I will comment more about this after viewing the report in
more detail.
In particular I'm
interested in how this Special Trends Report covers the trend toward thousands
of MOOC courses and millions of MOOC students around the world ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
This includes non-credit and credit-seeking MOOC students.
I'm interested in
the trends toward competency testing, including transcript credits given for
competency rather than particular courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge
I'm interested in
the trends of assessment in general ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm
I'm interested in
trends for access by handicapped and disabled learners ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
I'm interested in
trends in teaching and learning tools of the trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
I'm interested in
both the bright sides and dark sides of education technology trends ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
I'm interested in
efforts to combat the biggest disgrace in higher education, namely grade
inflation where in North America the median higher education grades have trended
from C or C+ in the 1940s to A or A- in the 21st Century ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
I'm interested in
trends in affirmative action where special treatment is given to faculty
applicants, promotion and tenure, student applicants and enrolled students who
are not white or Asian ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#AffirmativeAction
I'm interested in
trends in athletics where special treatment is given to applicants and enrolled
students who are varsity athletes ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#Athletics
I'm interested in
treads in cheating by both faculty and students ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm
I'm interested in
trends in listservs, blogs, and social media in higher education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/listservroles.htm
I'm interested in
the squelching of conservative scholarship through biases in faculty highering,
curriculum content, and journal contest as liberal bias takes over higher
education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/higHerEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias
I'm interest in
the trends of many other controversies in higher education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/higHerEdControversies.htm
I'm interested in
the fall from grace of regression analysis and statistical significance testing
in general in higher education:
"The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis A Conversation With Richard
Nisbett," Edge, January 21, 2016 ---
http://edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis
"Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values," by Christie
Aschwanden, Nate Silver's 5:38 Blog, November 30, 2015 ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/not-even-scientists-can-easily-explain-p-values/
"Drawing Inferences From Very Large Data-Sets," by David Giles, Econometrics
Beat: Dave Giles�
Blog,
University of Victoria, April 26, 2013 ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/2011/04/drawing-inferences-from-very-large-data.html
"Statistical Significance - Again " by David Giles, Econometrics
Beat: Dave Giles�
Blog,
University of Victoria, December 28, 2013 ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2013/12/statistical-significance-again.html
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives,
by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 978-472-05007-9, 2007)
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
"The
manuscript-editing marketplace: A peer-to-peer website aims to disrupt the
author-services industry," by Jeffrey M. Perkel,
Nature,
March 1, 2016 ---
http://www.nature.com/news/the-manuscript-editing-marketplace-1.19457?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160303&spMailingID=50825784&spUserID=MzEyMDU5NjE1OAS2&spJobID=880255771&spReportId=ODgwMjU1NzcxS0
As Sebastian Eggert prepared to submit a conference article, he realized he had a problem: neither he nor his research adviser were native English speakers, and neither had much experience in writing and publishing research papers. But Eggert, a master's student in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, had heard of a website where he could purchase editing services from an expert: an online marketplace called Peerwith.
Launched in October 2015 and still in beta testing, Peerwith is a forum through which researchers can find and negotiate with service providers such as editors, translators, statisticians and illustrators to improve their research papers. The site boasts “hundreds of experts”, most of them with expertise in the social sciences and humanities. Users post a job request detailing the subject area of the document, its length and the desired turnaround time. Experts then bid for the job, and both experts and users rate each other afterwards. Peerwith's business model is akin to freelance marketplaces such as Upwork, says co-founder Joris van Rossum, who left the journal publisher Elsevier to start his firm, except with a strictly academic focus.
A market for author services on research papers already exists; van Rossum estimates it at hundreds of million of dollars annually. It includes both large editing companies such as American Journal Experts (AJE), Edanz, Editage and Macmillan Science Communication (MSC, which is owned by Nature's parent company), and freelancers. But a peer-to-peer online marketplace, van Rossum says, makes services more affordable by cutting out the middleman and efficiently matching buyers and sellers. (Peerwith receives a cut of 10–20% for each transaction; the other firms would not comment on their margins). At the site, authors can review the experts who bid for work to identify the best fit, and can check to see how others have rated them.
Val Kidd, an editor and translator based in the United Kingdom, earned €200 (US$223) on Peerwith to translate a presentation for Emanuel Rutten, a philosopher at the Free University, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. The process, from job posting to completed document, took less than two weeks, Rutten says. “It's really smooth.” For her part, Kidd says that the interaction with her client improved the final product. At most author-services companies Kidd works with, she says, editors and translators cannot contact the author should they have questions — the client interacts with the service, which identifies a freelancer to handle the job.
Peerwith doesn't vet its service providers, says Anna Sharman, founder of Cofactor, a London-based author-services consultancy. So, unlike her own and other such companies, there is no guarantee that the 'experts' really are qualified. Editors at Cofactor undergo a rigorous recruitment process, Sharman says, and she double-checks their work before it is returned to the client.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
---
http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html
Don't forget that most of the terminology can befound in greater detail in
Wikipedia
Michel Foucault saw Europe’s current refugee crisis coming 40 years ago ---
http://qz.com/631842/michel-foucault-saw-europes-current-refugee-crisis-coming-40-years-ago/
Adams State University ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_State_University
"Adams State U. Changes Policies in Response to
‘Chronicle’ Investigation," by Andy Thomason, Chronicle of Higher
Education, January 15, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/adams-state-u-changes-policies-in-response-to-chronicle-investigation/92341?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Adams State University has frozen enrollment in its print-based correspondence courses in response to an investigation by The Chronicle detailing how a former coach helped athletes across the country cheat to become eligible to compete, according to a statement on the university’s website. Adams State has also commissioned an outside review of its student-verification process and canceled a mathematics course mentioned in the Chronicle article.
The article states that the former coach, identified only as “Mr. White,” helped multiple students at Adams State cheat by impersonating them online and completing work for them. In recent years, Adams State has enacted policies to step up the security of the classes. Adams State’s president, David P. Svaldi, said in the statement that the new review would “help us further assure academic integrity.”
"Adams State’s President Says Her University Is
Accreditor’s ‘Whipping Boy’," by Eric Kelderman,
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 8, 2016
---
http://chronicle.com/article/Adams-State-s-President-Says/235628?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=be3a600df3374c5497343f3e9954ff7f&elq=513f84f25e13430d876213dfe8c25d3f&elqaid=8178&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2623
Jensen Comment
Distance education courses can become especially problematic when colleges and
universities commence to treat them as cash cows. Sometimes it's difficult to
arm twist regular faculty to teach distance education sections such that cheaper
adjuncts with lesser teaching experience are hired for the online sections.
Online instructors may be learning as they go and not properly tutored for
online teaching. When sections of a course are taught both online and onsite
students in the online courses may pay higher (cash cow) tuition even when the
online sections have lower marginal costs.
Adams State illustrates how more tuition revenue can be generated by marketing online courses to marginal students like varsity athletes in other universities.
Adams State illustrates how oversite of online courses may become lax with poor quality controls.
"Narcissistic
Students Get Better Grades from Narcissistic Professors," by Nicole
Torres, Harvard
Business Review, March 4, 2016 ---
https://hbr.org/2016/03/narcissistic-students-get-better-grades-from-narcissistic-professors
Jensen Comment
The above research won't mean much until it is successfully replicated.
"Can
Science’s Reproducibility Crisis Be Reproduced?," by Paul Basken,
Chronicle of Higher
Education, March 3, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Science-s/235582?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=00007892b7d44a308a34645f63b6464b&elq=1bba946be0e647438f1c8bf3d0d86e3a&elqaid=8136&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2593
Broad fears over reproducibility were stoked by a 2005 article in PLOS Medicine by John P.A. Ioannidis, a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, contending that most published research findings are false. Last year a team of hundreds of researchers raised further alarm. After working over three years to faithfully repeat 100 studies that had been published in psychology journals, the team reported that it could not replicate most of the original results.
Now, two new studies, published on Thursday in Science magazine, are pushing back. One, a Harvard-led critique of the project that repeated 100 psychology studies, suggests that that ambitious effort overlooked some critical factors. The other, an attempt to repeat 18 studies in leading economics journals, found that 61 percent of them replicated successfully.
"Our results were pretty encouraging," said the lead author of the economics study, Colin F. Camerer, a professor of behavioral economics at the California Institute of Technology.
Together, the two papers this week should help calm the widespread worries about the reliability of science fanned by Mr. Ioannidis, said the lead author of the psychology critique, Daniel T. Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard.
"It’s very easy to come to the wrong conclusion when you try to replicate other people’s research," Mr. Gilbert said.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
In accounting research replication efforts are rare. There's almost no incentive
to conduct exacting replication studies since there's no outlet for publication
of replication efforts or even commentaries on research published in the six
leading academic accounting research journals. It is not so much that the
journals will not publish commentaries. A leading former editor (Steve
Kachelmeir) of The
Accounting Review writes that his 574 referees had zero interest in
accepting commentaries for publication.
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTar.htm
We might argue
that argue that accountants simply trust each other to only publish truth in
accounting. But more to the point is that in terms of the leading top six
academic accounting journals (that only publish articles with equations) there
is virtually zero interest among accountants in the findings of the esoteric
"accountics" articles published in those journals.
“An Analysis of the Evolution of Research Contributions by The Accounting
Review: 1926-2005,” (with Jean Heck), Accounting Historians Journal,
Volume 34, No. 2, December 2007, pp. 109-142.
. . .
Practitioner membership in the AAA faded along with their interest in journals published by the AAA [Bricker and Previts, 1990]. The exodus of practitioners became even more pronounced in the 1990s when leadership in the large accounting firms was changing toward professional managers overseeing global operations. Rayburn [2006, p. 4] notes that practitioner membership is now less than 10 percent of AAA members, and many practitioner members join more for public relations and student recruitment reasons rather than interest in AAA research. Practitioner authorship in TAR plunged to nearly zero over recent decades, as reflected in Figure 2.
To my knowledge
there has only been one noteworthy cheating scandal causing retraction of
research papers in the leading academic journals. Those papers had cheater James
Hunton as a co-author, but none of Professor Hunton's research cheating was
detected by replication efforts. Hence it's safe to say that in accounting
research there's been no cheating or serious error detection revelations except
where the authors themselves later detected their own errors and apologized in
public. You can read about Professor Hunton's cheating at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
There have been
instances where cheating, usually plagiarism, was detected that did
not
lead to formal retractions in the accounting research journals. I mention one
such case at where a friend of mine at a Big 10 university plagiarized parts of
a student's Ph.D. dissertation and was embarrassed when the cheating was
detected after the student, also a close friend of mine, was recalled to testify
at that university ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm
But professorial
cheating never, to my knowledge, was detected in replication efforts in the
discipline of accounting. There are instances in the physical and social
sciences where replication efforts led to the detection of cheating and/or
serious unintended research mistakes ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm
The biggest reason for encouraging replication research is to either detect research error or to detect intentional fabrication of data. In the leading accounting research journals fabrication of data is less likely because most accounting researchers, at least those in financial accounting, reply on purchased databases like Compustat. Those researchers seldom collect their own data, and hence data fabrication is less likely. But in the case of James Hunton there was allegedly data fabrication.
How many taxpayers overpaid when challenged by this from the IRS?
Math
Is Hard, IRS Addition
http://www.taxabletalk.com/2016/03/03/math-is-hard-irs-addition/
Jensen Comment
One of the problems with IRS errors is that computerized notices can counpound
the errror over and over and over and over.
March 2016 Econometrics Reading List from David Giles ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2016/03/march-reading-list.html
From 2012 to 2015 the mean salary for a new accounting
doctorate increased from $142,500 to $156,900. For a summary of the 2012
and 2015 reports see
http://maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumAACSB2013SalaryReports.htm
Jensen Comment
When it comes to salary data I prefer means to medians. Means in this case are
pulled down greatly by low-paying AACSB universities that are chosen for reasons
other than salary such as geographic location, spouse employment opportunities,
etc. For example, there are quite few NYC universities that are not known for
high salaries. But opportunities for spouses are hign in NYC. Also there are
some financial incentives for outside consulting unique to the NYC metroplex.
Small religious universities have attractions other than salary.
Also mean salaries are not good for comparing the top R1 research universities in accounting. For example, some universities provide only small research slush funds for researchers, including new accounting faculty. Others purportedly go well above $20,000 for research slush funds controlled by accounting researchers. Also some universities like Harvard provide many more opportunities for lucrative consulting supplemental incomes.
"Exploring Accounting Doctoral Program Decline: Variation and the Search for
Antecedents," by Timothy J. Fogarty and Anthony D. Holder, Issues in
Accounting Education, May 2012 ---
Not yet posted on June 18, 2012
ABSTRACT
The inadequate supply of new terminally qualified accounting faculty poses a
great concern for many accounting faculty and administrators. Although the
general downward trajectory has been well observed, more specific information
would offer potential insights about causes and continuation. This paper
examines change in accounting doctoral student production in the U.S. since 1989
through the use of five-year moving verges. Aggregated on this basis, the
downward movement predominates, notwithstanding the schools that began new
programs or increased doctoral student production during this time. The results
show that larger declines occurred for middle prestige schools, for larger
universities, and for public schools. Schools that periodically successfully
compete in M.B.A.. program rankings also more likely have diminished in size. of
their accounting Ph.D. programs. Despite a recent increase in graduations, data
on the population of current doctoral students suggest the continuation of the
problems associated with the supply and demand imbalance that exists in this
sector of the U.S. academy
Jensen Comment
This shortage has made new accounting Ph.D. graduates among the highest paid in
new hires in top research universities in North America. But the result is that
most business schools have shortages of accounting Ph.D.s and have had to
supplement teaching staff with adjuncts and in the case of tax accounting
lawyers are put in tenure track positions. Whereas Purdue will struggle for
graduate assistants in the English Department Purdue will struggle with having
more adjuncts in the business school, especially in accounting. Some
universities like the University of Houston now has over a dozen "clinical"
accounting faculty.
Patricia Walters points out that there's a distinction between clinical full-time faculty and adjunct faculty who may or may not be full time. Clinical accounting faculty generally have Ph.D. credentials (not necessarily in accounting) and often receive compensation comparable to some, but not all, tenure-track faculty. The big difference is that clinical faculty generally are not granted tenure and usually teach more sections than research faculty.
Bob Jensen's threads on the sad state of North American accounting doctoral
programs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
17 Disappearing Middle Class Jobs ---
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/03/01/17-disappearing-middle-class-jobs/2/
Includes bookkeeping jobs.
Jensen
Comment
Even when the jobs do not disappear, the nature of the work is changing. One of
my first tax return preparation jobs for Ernst & Young in Denver decades ago was
for a restaurant that brought me rolled up cash register tapes. These days most
restaurants have cash register apps that journalize and post the daily register
receipts such that the submissions to tax preparers take a lot less time and
effort and often feed directly into tax preparation software of an accounting
firm. Retail stores now have point-of-sale software that automatically posts
inventory accounts and even triggers inventory purchases directly into supplier
computers. Sometimes supplier robots pick and package the orders and load them
onto shipping docks. The humans in the process definitely are on the way out.
"As
College-Run Bookstores Hang by a Thread, Chapel Hill Ponders Virtual
Alternatives," by Corinne Ruff,
Chronicle of Higher
Education, February 25, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/As-College-Run-Bookstores-Hang/235466?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=336ef42127024ea989796064078f6928&elq=0a661b5040854aecab340a6fae5922e6&elqaid=8077&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2568
Jensen Comment
Campus bookstores for years have not made sustainable profit on textbooks and
opportunities are for doing so are declining because of online alternatives.
Where profits are made is in sundry items like clothing, mugs, office supplies,
tennis shoes, etc. The stores on campus probably are doing all right as long as
there is not huge competition alongside the campus from stores that sell the
same things like a University of XXXX sweatshirt and shorts. The campus that are
hurting are probably those with nearby competition in the high markup items.
The controversial issue is how much the non-profit university subsidizes the campus stores with low rents and convenient parking. The competition sometimes raises questions on why they have to pay property taxes/rent when campus stores avoid such fees. How have the rules changed for such subsidies?
"Bringing
Philosophy to Life," by Nakul Krishna,"
Chronicle of Higher
Education, February 21, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Bringing-Philosophy-to-Life/235345?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=632d3c77d7a14bcc87124f42869a5948&elq=93ab1ebf84574eaf9e13c2052209b2f6&elqaid=8063&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2557
Nakul Krishna is a
lecturer in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Jensen
Recommendation
Also read the comments at the end of the article.
Bob Jensen's
philosophy links are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
Search for "philosophy"
History Corner
National Registry of Historic Homes (illustration from Oklahoma) ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Rogers_County,_Oklahoma
Sears Catalog
Homes (1908-1940) ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home
The Book of
Modern Homes and Building Plans first appeared in 1908\ ---
https://expressmodular.com/sears-home-story/
For the first time, Sears sold complete houses, including the plans and instructions for construction of 22 different styles, announcing that the featured homes were “complete, ready for occupancy.” By 1911, Modern Homes catalogs included illustrations of house interiors, which provided homeowners with blueprints for furnishing the houses with Sears appliances and fixtures.
Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room and no-bath cottage for summer vacationers. (An outhouse could be purchased separately for Goldenrod and similar cottage dwellers.) Customers could choose a house to suit their individual tastes and budgets.
Individuals could even design their own homes and submit the blueprints to Sears, which would then ship off the appropriate precut and fitted materials, putting the home owner in full creative control. Modern Home customers had the freedom to build their own dream houses, and Sears helped realize these dreams through quality custom design and favorable financing.
"What’s the Best Way to Teach Financial Skills to Children? Our experts say start early, talk often—and look for teachable moments," by Veronica Dagher, The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 28, 2016 --- http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-best-way-to-teach-financial-skills-to-children-1456715769
Jensen Comment
No matter how you introduce students to financial skills such as time value of
money, I think it is essential to eventually teach Excel functions for such
purposes.
Bob Jensen's threads on personal finance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
Ethnography --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography
Is this academic
cheating or worse"
Conflict Over
Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Conflict-Over-Sociologists/230883?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=6cf1ab9ba37949f6a7d0209ec6e4a715&elq=93ab1ebf84574eaf9e13c2052209b2f6&elqaid=8063&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2557
Bob Jensen's
threads on cheating in academia ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm
2016 PWC GLOBAL
ECONOMIC CRIME SURVEY - THE UK: FRAUDSTERS AND FRAUD SCHEMES ARE MATURING ---
http://www.accountingeducation.com/index.cfm?page=newsdetails&id=153826&utm_source=MailerMailer&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news+story&utm_campaign=Double+Entries+22(04)
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
"The
Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit," by Brian D. Earp,
Quillette, February 15, 2016 ---
http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/
Quiz Question
Why is asymmetry of bullshit more unbearable that when it's symmetrical?
From Mark Kappel on March 4, 2016
MoneyGeek.com has created a financial aid guide for online colleges. An interactive map offers readers financial aid resources based on state, degree level, school type and more. In addition, readers can explore federal student loans and grants specific to online schools.
Review the guide here: http://www.moneygeek.com/education/college/resources/financial-aid-for-online-colleges/
Bob Jensen's
threads on online education and training alternatives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/CrossBorder.htm
Inside Higher Ed: Community Colleges --- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/focus/community_colleges
"Eyeglasses That
Can Focus Themselves Are on the Way," by Rachel Metz, MIT's Technology
Review, March 9, 2016 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600963/eyeglasses-that-can-focus-themselves-are-on-the-way/#/set/id/601014/
Jensen Comment
Because of astigmatism I carry corrective driving glasses in the car. However,
for other times of my life I avoid eyeglasses that only slightly, very slightly,
improve my vision. The reason is that experts tell me that frequent eyeglass use
increases dependency upon those eyeglasses. Our eyes own focusing power weaken
with frequent eyeglass use. People who see poorly without eyeglasses must bear
this burden.
My concern is that eyeglasses that can focus themselves will further weaken the natural focusing power of eyes. However, I'm no expert on this matter, but it is a concern to raise with experts if you consider switching to eyeglasses that can focus themselves.
MIT: Wind Power’s Next Hope: Blades as Long as Two Football Fields
---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600881/wind-powers-next-hope-blades-as-long-as-two-football-fields/#/set/id/600902/
Jensen Comment
Perhaps we can not only kill more birds, maybe we can cool Texas as well by
lowering the upper winds to ground level.
"The Tragic
Necessity of Human Life: Willa Cather on Relationships and How Our Formative
Family Dynamics Imprint Us," by Maria Popova,
Brain Pickings, February 25, 2016 ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/25/willa-cather-relationships/?mc_cid=4559a30cf8&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
March 7, 2016 Message from Jagdish Gangolly
Read two fascinating articles and two books. If I were to teach any course where research is a component, these would be required reading.
Here they are:
1.
Is Social Science Politically Biased?
:
Political bias troubles the academy
By Michael Shermer
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-social-science-politically-biased/
2.
Why Some of the Worst
Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals
By Jesse Singal
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/12/when-liberals-attack-social-science.html
3.
Yanomamo: The Fierce People (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Napoleon A. Chagnon
http://www.amazon.com/Yanomamo-Fierce-Studies-Cultural-Anthropology/dp/0030623286?tag=sciofus-20
4.
Darkness in El Dorado: How
Scientists & Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney
5.
Galileo's Middle Finger:
Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science 1St Edition
by Alice Dreger
http://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Middle-Finger-Heretics-Activists/dp/1594206082?tag=sciofus-20
I have read the first two, but will read the rest soon. The second gives two fascinating controversies that jeopardized the careers of two very good scientists, the first an anthropologist, and the second a psychologist (where Deidre McCloskey was an offending party).
At the risk of painting a wrong picture of the controversies, I'll just quote the concluding paragraph of the second article:
"We should want researchers to poke around at the edges of “respectable” beliefs about gender and race and religion and sex and identity and trauma, and other issues that make us squirm. That’s why the scientific method was invented in the first place. If activists — any activists, regardless of their political orientation or the rightness of their cause — get to decide by fiat what is and isn’t an acceptable interpretation of the world, then science is pointless, and we should just throw the whole damn thing out."
Regards to all,
Jagdish
March 7. 2016 reply from Bob Jensen
Thank you for this Jagdish. I do wish more subscribers to the AECM would suggest readings for us.
Here's my tidbit on the Shermer article.
"Is Social Science
Politically Biased? Political bias troubles the academy," by Machel Shermer,
Scientific American, March 1, 2016 ---
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-social-science-politically-biased/
Thank you Jagdish Gangolly for the heads up!
"Moving Further to the Left," by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, October 24, 2012 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/24/survey-finds-professors-already-liberal-have-moved-further-leftAcademics, on average, lean to the left. A survey being released today suggests that they are moving even more in that direction.
Among full-time faculty members at four-year colleges and universities, the percentage identifying as "far left" or liberal has increased notably in the last three years, while the percentage identifying in three other political categories has declined. The data come from the University of California at Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute, which surveys faculty members nationwide every three years on a range of attitudes.
Here are the data for the new survey and the prior survey:
2010-11
2007-8
Far left
12.4%
8.8%
Liberal
50.3%
47.0%
Middle of the road
25.4%
28.4%
Conservative
11.5%
15.2%
Far right
0.4%
0.7%
Gauging how gradual or abrupt this shift is complicated because of changes in the UCLA survey's methodology; before 2007-8, the survey included community college faculty members, who have been excluded since. But for those years, examining only four-year college and university faculty members, the numbers are similar to those of 2007-8. Going back further, one can see an evolution away from the center.
In the 1998-9 survey, more than 35 percent of faculty members identified themselves as middle of the road, and less than half (47.5 percent) identified as liberal or far left. In the new data, 62.7 percent identify as liberal or far left. (Most surveys that have included community college faculty members have found them to inhabit political space to the right of faculty members at four-year institutions.)
The new data differ from some recent studies by groups other than the UCLA center that have found that professors (while more likely to lean left than right) in fact were doing so from more of a centrist position. A major study in 2007, for example, found that professors were more likely to be centrist than liberal, and that many on the left identified themselves as "slightly liberal." (That study and the new one use different scales, making exact comparisons impossible.)
In looking at the new data, there is notable variation by sector. Private research universities are the most left-leaning, with 16.2 percent of faculty members identifying as far left, and 0.1 percent as far right. (If one combines far left and liberal, however, private, four-year, non-religious colleges top private universities, 58.6 percent to 57.7 percent.) The largest conservative contingent can be found at religious, non-Roman Catholic four-year colleges, where 23.0 percent identify as conservative and another 0.6 percent say that they are far right.
Professors' Political Identification, 2010-11, by Sector
Far left
Liberal
Middle of the Road
Conservative
Far right
Public universities
13.3%
52.4%
24.7%
9.2%
0.3%
Private universities
16.2%
51.5%
22.3%
9.8%
0.1%
Public, 4-year colleges
8.8%
47.1%
28.7%
14.7%
0.7%
Private, 4-year, nonsectarian
14.0%
54.6%
22.6%
8.6%
0.3%
Private, 4-year, Catholic
7.8%
48.0%
30.7%
13.3%
0.3%
Private, 4-year, other religious
7.4%
40.0%
29.1%
23.0%
0.6%
The study found some differences by gender, with women further to the left than men. Among women, 12.6 percent identified as far left and 54.9 percent as liberal. Among men, the figures were 12.2 percent and 47.2 percent, respectively.
Continued in article
There Goes the Neighborhood
"U. of Colorado Is in Search of a Scholar of Conservative Thought U. of
Colorado Is in Search of a Scholar of Conservative Thought," by Sydni Dunn,
Chronicle of Higher Education., February 26, 2013 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Colorado-Is-in-Search-of/137567/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Jensen Comment
The academy manifests leftist bias mainly when hiring faculty that in turn
ripples out into the classroom, research, and the hiring of new colleagues. This
begs the question of why there is such a leftist bias in hiring that probably
arises in great measure due to the hiring pools where conservative scholars are
in the minority.
"New View of
Faculty Liberalism: Why are professors liberal?" by Scott Jaschik,
Inside Higher Ed, January 18, 2010 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/18/liberal
That question has led to many heated debates, particularly in recent years, over charges from some on the right that faculty members somehow discriminate against those who don't share a common political agenda with the left. A new paper attempts to shift the debate in a new direction. This study argues that certain characteristics of professors -- related to education and religion, among other factors -- explain a significant portion of the liberalism of faculty members relative to the American public at large.
Further, the paper argues that academe, because of the impact of these factors, may now be "politically typed" in a way that attracts more faculty members from the left than the right.
The research was done by Neil Gross, an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia, and Ethan Fosse, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Harvard University. Gross has been the author of numerous studies of professorial politics, including a 2007 analysis that found faculty members, while liberal, may be more moderate than many believe. The new study may be found on his Web site.
In this analysis, Fosse and Gross do not dispute that faculty members are more liberal than the public at large. Rather, they make two main arguments. First they look at a range of characteristics that apply disproportionately to professors but are not unique to professors, and examine the political leanings associated with these characteristics -- finding that several of them explain a significant portion of the political gap between faculty members and others. Then, they offer what they call a new theory to explain why academe may attract more liberals, regardless of whether they have those characteristics.
The paper finds that 43 percent of the political gap can be explained because professors are more likely than others:
· To have high levels of educational attainment.
· To experience a disparity between their levels of educational attainment and income.
· To be either Jewish, non-religious, or a member of a faith that is not theologically conservative Protestant.
· To have a high tolerance for controversial ideas.
The analysis is based on data from the General Social Survey from 1974-2008. Beyond the items above, a smaller but significant impact also was found because professors are more likely than others to have lived in an urban area growing up and to have fewer children.
On the question of the education/income gap, Gross and Fosse say that their findings are consistent with the work of Pierre Bourdieu. "For Bourdieu, intellectuals are defined structurally by their possession of high levels of cultural capital and moderate levels of economic capital," they write. "This structural position, Bourdieu asserts, shapes their politics.... Deprived of economic success relative to those in the world of commerce, intellectuals are less likely to be invested in preserving the socioeconomic order, may turn toward redistributionist policies in hopes of reducing perceived status inconsistency, and may embrace unconventional social or political views in order to distinguish themselves culturally from the business classes."
Political Types
After outlining their statistical case, the authors go on to suggest what they call a new theory to explain professorial politics that builds on the differences they identify in the first part of their paper. They note that the factors they focus on in the first part of their study explain a portion but only a portion of the political gap, suggesting that relying on class analysis alone would be inadequate.
"The theory we advance ... holds that the liberalism of professors is a function not primarily of class relations, but rather of the systematic sorting of young adults who are already liberally or conservatively inclined into and out of the academic professions," they write.
Gross and Fosse cite research by others about how some professions become "sex typed" such that they are associated with gender. Even if some men and women defy these patterns and there is nothing inherently gender-related to these patterns, these types have an impact on the aspirations of young men and women.
"We argue that the professoriate, along with a number of other knowledge work fields, has been 'politically typed' as appropriate and welcoming of people with broadly liberal sensibilities, and as inappropriate for conservatives," they write. "This reputation leads many more liberal than conservative students to aspire for the advanced educational credentials that make entry into knowledge work fields possible, and to put in the work necessary to translate those aspirations into reality."
The authors are careful to define limits to their theory. They state that they do not believe that young people place themselves into numerous socioeconomic and philosophical views to determine a choice of career. And they note that they doubt that most young people even understand their full range of options. Rather, they argue that for those with political sensibilities, "identity and the social psychology of identity" come into play.
"[W]e argue that for young people whose political identities are salient, liberalism and conservatism constrain horizons of educational and occupational possibility," they write. "Because these identities involve cognitive schemas and habitual patterns of thinking that filter experience ... most young adults who are committed liberals would never end up entertaining the idea that they might become police or correctional officers, just as it would never cross the minds of most who are committed conservatives that they might become professors, precisely because of the political reputations of these fields."
The theory might also, the authors write, explain political differences visible among different academic disciplines.
"[W]e theorize that, within the general constraint that more liberals than conservatives will aspire for advanced educational credentials and academic careers of any kind, liberal students will be far more inclined than conservatives to enter fields that have come to define themselves around left-valenced images of intellectual personhood," the paper says. "Over the course of its 20th century history, for example, sociology has increasingly defined itself as the study of race, class, and gender inequality -- a set of concerns especially important to liberals -- and this means that sociology will consistently recruit from a more liberal applicant pool than fields like mechanical engineering, and prove a more chilly home for those conservatives who manage to push through into graduate school or the academic ranks."
Bob Jensen's threads on the
Liberal Bias of the Academy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias
From the Scout Report February 26, 2016
Scoop.it! --- http://www.scoop.it
Scoopt.it is an excellent service for readers who would like to curate their own content about a particular topic on the web. Conducting a web search for existing Scoop.it pages (The psychology Scoop.it, for instance, has been viewed over one million times and is updated multiple times per day.) provides a sense for what Scoop.it can do. Signing up for a free Scoop.it account (there are also premium accounts, at cost) requires an email, Twitter, or Facebook account. Once an account is created, the site will ask users for topics or keywords of interest, searching the Internet for scoopable content. Readers may also scoop content they come across themselves, gradually building a site of curated information on a favorite topic.
Image Optimizer --- http://www.imageoptimizer.net/
The world of contemporary communication is a world of images. No blog post is complete without a snappy pic to exemplify a point. Business reports need graphics, Christmas letters need photos of smiling children, and of course we all know that a Facebook post without an image will have little chance of getting noticed. But how do we adapt our images to the perfect size, shape, and quality for the particular purpose we have in mind? Image Optimizer is built for just that. Using the service is simple. Just upload a an image file, and then optimize by Quality (minimum file size, very small file size, small file size, normal, high quality, and best quality), by Max width, and by Max height. Then optimize in seconds and download the file back to your computer.
Twenty Years
After It's Publication, "Infinite Jest" Still Strikes a
Chord
Infinite Jest at 20: still a challenge, still brilliant
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/feb/15/infinite-jest-at-20-still-a-challenge-still-brilliant-emma-lee-moss
Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' at 20
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/everything-about-everything-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest-at-20.html
Beyond "Infinite Jest"
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/beyond-infinite-jest?intcid=mod-latest
The David Foster Wallace Audio Project
http://www.dfwaudioproject.org/
The Alchemist's Retort: A multi-layered postmodern saga of damnation and
salvation
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/
Divine Drudgery
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/divine-drudgery/
Jensen Comment
I'm not a David Foster Wallace fan. In spite of praises from many reviewers find
his books too long, poorly constructed, and extremely boring from beginning to
middle (I never could reach the end of any of his books).
From the Scout Report on March 4, 2016
FlashTabs --- http://flashtabs.co
The idea behind FlashTabs is as simple as it is effective. Let's say you are studying for an anatomy exam, or a driver's test, or a learning a new language. How do you integrate the information and the studying process throughout the day? FlashTab has an answer. The Chrome browser extension lets you create digital flashcards that will appear every time you open a new tab. This way, learning is integrated into daily activities at work and/or at home. Adding the extension takes only a few clicks of your mouse. From there, create a deck of flashcards and activate. Then learn your targeted information as you browse the Internet
Flashcard Machine --- http://www.flashcardmachine.com/
A free service for creating web-based study flashcards that can be shared with others.
With over 109 million flash cards created to-date, Flashcard Machine is your premier online study tool.
For example, search for the word "accounting" at
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/flashcards/flashcards.cgi
There are over 3,000 hits
From the Scout Report on March 4, 2016
Earth View from Google --- https://earthview.withgoogle.com/
For readers looking for a break from the doldrums of the workday, Earth View offers a mesmerizing escape. Here readers will find a prodigious collection of dazzling landscapes from the seemingly endless archives of Google Earth. Whether readers are perusing the lakes of the Tibetan Plateau or the intricacies of a sky-based view of a French airport, these images are chosen to inspire wonder at the variety and allure of planet Earth. Besides scrolling through the thousands of images showcased here, readers may also add the program as a browser extension and, perhaps best of all, download any image as wallpaper for desktop or mobile devices.
FlashTabs --- http://flashtabs.co
The idea behind FlashTabs is as simple as it is effective. Let's say you are studying for an anatomy exam, or a driver's test, or a learning a new language. How do you integrate the information and the studying process throughout the day? FlashTab has an answer. The Chrome browser extension lets you create digital flashcards that will appear every time you open a new tab. This way, learning is integrated into daily activities at work and/or at home. Adding the extension takes only a few clicks of your mouse. From there, create a deck of flashcards and activate. Then learn your targeted information as you browse the Internet
The Zika Virus
Zika virus: pregnant women warned against travel to affected areas
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/zika-virus-pregnant-women-warned-against-travel-to-affected-areas
Short Answers to Hard Questions About Zika Virus
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/health/what-is-zika-virus.html
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Zika Virus
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/
Where did viruses come from?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-where-did-viruses-come-fr/
Viruses and Evolution
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/viruses-and-evolution
< i>Viruses, Plagues, & History: Past, Present, and Future</i>
http://www.academia.dk/BiologiskAntropologi/Mikrobiologi/PDF/Viruses_Plagues_and_History.pdf
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Inside Higher Ed: Community Colleges --- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/focus/community_colleges
San Francisco Symphony: Keeping Score in the Classroom --- http://www.keepingscore.org/education/lessonplanlibrary
Mindful Teachers --- http://www.mindfulteachers.org
A Thousand Years of the Persian Book (literature) --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thousand-years-of-the-persian-book/
Access Islam --- http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/accessislam/index.html
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Update on Learning to Code
Learn How to Code for Free: A DIY Guide for Learning HTML, Python, Javascript & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/learn-how-to-code-for-free-a-diy-guide-for-learning-html-python-javascript-more.htmlCS For All: Introduction to Computer Science and Python Programming ---
https://www.edx.org/course/cs-all-introduction-computer-science-harveymuddx-cs005xCode.org (computer sciencighties, Perl excels at processing text, and developers like it because it's powerful and flexible. It was once famously described as "the duct tape of the web," because it's really great at holding websites together, but it's not the most elegant language. Perl: Originally developed by a NASA engineer in the late eighties, Perl excels at processing text, and developers like it because it's powerful and flexible. It was once famously described as "the duct tape of the web," because it's really great at holding websites together, but it's not the most elegant language. Wikimedia Commons
. . .
C:
One of the oldest programming languages still in common use, C was created in the early 1970s. In 1978, the language's legendary and still widely read manual, the 800-page "The C Programming Language," saw print for the first time. C: One of the oldest programming languages still in common use, C was created in the early 1970s. In 1978, the language's legendary and still widely read manual, the 800-page "The C Programming Language," saw print for the first time. Flickr. . .
Objective-C:
The original C programming language was so influential that it inspired a lot of similarly named successors, all of which took their inspiration from the original but added features from other languages. Objective-C has grown in popularity as the standard language to build iPhone apps, though Apple's been pushing its own Swift language, too. Objective-C: The original C programming language was so influential that it inspired a lot of similarly named successors, all of which took their inspiration from the original but added features from other languages. Objective-C has grown in popularity as the standard language to build iPhone apps, though Apple's been pushing its own Swift language, too. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. . .
JavaScript:
This is a super-popular programming language primarily used in web apps. But it doesn't have much to do with Java besides the name. JavaScript runs a lot of the modern web, but it also catches a lot of flak for slowing browsers down and sometimes exposing users to security vulnerabilities. JavaScript: This is a super-popular programming language primarily used in web apps. But it doesn't have much to do with Java besides the name. JavaScript runs a lot of the modern web, but it also catches a lot of flak for slowing browsers down and sometimes exposing users to security vulnerabilities. Dmitry Baranovskiy via Flickr. . .
Visual Basic:
Microsoft's Visual Basic (and its successor, Visual Basic .NET) tries to make programming easier with a graphical element that lets you change portions of a program by dragging and dropping. It's old, and some think it's lacking features next to other languages, but with Microsoft's backing, it's still got its users out there. Visual Basic: Microsoft's Visual Basic (and its successor, Visual Basic .NET) tries to make programming easier with a graphical element that lets you change portions of a program by dragging and dropping. It's old, and some think it's lacking features next to other languages, but with Microsoft's backing, it's still got its users out there. Wikimedia Commons. . .
Ruby:
Like Python, developers like this 24-year-old language because it's easy to read and write the code. Also popular is Rails, an add-on framework for Ruby that makes it really easy to use it to build web apps. The language's official motto is "A programmer's best friend." Ruby: Like Python, developers like this 24-year-old language because it's easy to read and write the code. Also popular is Rails, an add-on framework for Ruby that makes it really easy to use it to build web apps. The language's official motto is "A programmer's best friend." ©V&A imagesPython:
This language traces back to 1989, and is loved by its fans for its highly readable code. Many programmers suggest it's the easiest language to get started with. Python: This language traces back to 1989, and is loved by its fans for its highly readable code. Many programmers suggest it's the easiest language to get started with. Flickr/nyuhuhuu CSS: Short for "Cascading Style Sheets," CSS is a programming language to design the format and layout of a website. A lot of website menus and mobile app menus are written with CSS, in conjunction with JavaScript and garden-variety HTML.CSS:
Short for "Cascading Style Sheets," CSS is a programming language to design the format and layout of a website. A lot of website menus and mobile app menus are written with CSS, in conjunction with JavaScript and garden-variety HTML. Wikimedia Commons. . .
R:
This is the programming language of choice for statisticians and anybody doing data analysis. Google has gone on record as a big fan of R, for the power it gives to its mathematicians.Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/programming-languages-in-highest-demand-2015-6?op=1#ixzz3eIfsCJdR
Free Code Camp --- http://www.freecodecamp.com/
DevArt: Art made with code --- https://devart.withgoogle.com/
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Scott Kelly's
Photographs From a Year on the Space Station ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-scott-kelly-instagram-2016-3
Brian Greene
Breaks Down Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves for Stephen Colbert ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/brian-greene-breaks-down-einsteins-theory-of-gravitational-waves-for-stephen-colbert.html
Neuronline --- http://neuronline.sfn.org/
NSF: Let It Snow (weather and environoment) --- http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/
From the Scout Report on March 4, 2016
The Zika Virus
Zika virus: pregnant women warned against travel to affected areas
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/zika-virus-pregnant-women-warned-against-travel-to-affected-areas
Short Answers to Hard Questions About Zika Virus
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/health/what-is-zika-virus.html
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Zika Virus
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/
Where did viruses come from?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-where-did-viruses-come-fr/
Viruses and Evolution
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/viruses-and-evolution
< i>Viruses, Plagues, & History: Past, Present, and Future</i>
http://www.academia.dk/BiologiskAntropologi/Mikrobiologi/PDF/Viruses_Plagues_and_History.pdf
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
The Concise
Encyclopedia of Economics ---
http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html
Don't forget that most of the terminology can be found in greater detail in
Wikipedia
New Rosa Parks
Archive is Now Online: Features 7,500 Manuscripts & 2,500 Photographs, Courtesy
of the Library of Congress ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/rosa-parks-archive-is-now-online.html
European Commission: Gender equality --- http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/
American
Aviatrixes: Women with Wings
http://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/american-aviatrixes
Bob Jensen's
threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials
are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
ConSource: The Constitutional Sources Project --- http://www.consource.org/
Bob Jensen's
threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
Bob Jensen's
threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
Amazing Photos of
the Sahara Desert's Lost Libraries ---
https://weather.com/travel/news/huniewicz-lost-libraries-sahara-desert
Download 1800 Fin de Siècle French Posters & Prints
in High-Resolution: Iconic Works by Toulouse-Lautrec & Many More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/download-1800-fin-de-siecle-french-posters-prints-in-high-resolution.html
Cow Hampshire (a
New Hampshire Histoyr Blog) ---
http://www.cowhampshireblog.com/
Wynken de Worde (books and libraries) --- http://sarahwerner.net/blog/
Street View, Then & Now: New York's Fifth Avenue (photographic history) --- http://publicdomain.nypl.org/fifth-avenue/
EDSITEment: Mapping Colonial New England http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/mapping-colonial-new-england-looking-landscape-new-england
A Thousand Years of the Persian Book (literature) --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thousand-years-of-the-persian-book/
Access Islam --- http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/accessislam/index.html
Celebrating
Women's History Month in New Hampshire, March 2016 ---
http://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2016/02/28/celebrating-national-womens-history-month-in-2016/
Download All 36
of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Stunning High Resolution)
---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/download-all-36-of-jan-vermeers-beautifully-rare-paintings-many-in-stunning-high-resolution.html
New Rosa Parks
Archive is Now Online: Features 7,500 Manuscripts & 2,500 Photographs, Courtesy
of the Library of Congress ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/rosa-parks-archive-is-now-online.html
American
Aviatrixes: Women with Wings
http://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/american-aviatrixes
Bob Jensen's
threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
San Francisco Symphony: Keeping Score in the Classroom --- http://www.keepingscore.org/education/lessonplanlibrary
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks
(1937-2001) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/the-history-of-electronic-music-in-476-tracks-1937-2001.html
Bob Jensen's
threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's
threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Tutorials
Glossary of Poetic Terms --- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
February 29, 2016
· 'Female Libido' Pill May Not Be Worth It: Report
· Urinary Incontinence Risk Up After Vaginal Birth
· More Americans Opting for Butt Implants, Lifts
· Transgender Kids: Support Key to Emotional Health
· Pregnant Travelers, Tough Choices on Zika Testing
· 4 Types of Pancreatic Cancer Identified: Study
· Surgeons Perform First U.S. Uterus Transplant
· Pot Habit Early in Life May Alter Brain
· Are Women the Key to Unlocking Alzheimer’s?
· Zika's Effect on Fetus May Be Worse Than Thought
March 1, 2016
· FDA Orders 'Black Box' Warning Label on Essure
· 'Female Libido' Pill May Not Be Worth It: Report
· Daylight Saving Time Tied to Spike in Stroke Risk
· Zika Virus Tied to Rare Disorder That Can Cause Paralysis
· Urinary Incontinence Risk Up After Vaginal Birth
· Surgeons Perform First U.S. Uterus Transplant
· 4 Types of Pancreatic Cancer Identified: Study
· Pot Habit Early in Life May Alter Brain
· Pregnant Travelers, Tough Choices on Zika Testing
· More Americans Opting for Butt Implants, Lifts
March 2, 2016
· A Daily Cup of Tea May Soothe Your Heart
· Healthy Arteries After 80 May Lower Dementia Risk
· Sleeplessness and Nighttime 'Light Pollution'
· Scientists Report Finding 'Gray Hair' Gene
· Young Athletes, Parental Pressure and 'Doping'
· 'Female Libido' Pill May Not Be Worth It: Report
· FDA Orders 'Black Box' Warning Label on Essure
· Daylight Saving Time Tied to Spike in Stroke Risk
· Zika Tied to Disorder That Can Cause Paralysis
· Sleep Apnea May Affect Your Mood, Thinking Skills
March 3, 2016
· ADHD Meds Tied to Lower Bone Density in Kids
· Inducing Labor May Not Boost C-Section Risk
· One Drink Might Temporarily Bump Up Heart Risk
· Lazy Weekends May Boost Body Fat
· Ovarian Cancer Is More Than One Disease: Report
· Link Between Many Moles, Melanoma Risk Questioned
· Low Vitamin D May Mean Aggressive Prostate Cancer
· A Daily Cup of Tea May Soothe Your Heart
· Certain Jobs Hazardous to Your Heart Health
· Type 1 Diabetes and Raised Risk of Certain Cancers
March 4, 2016
· Overestimating Early Breast Cancer Return, Spread
· Computer Use May Help Seniors' Memory Problems
· Bridging Gap Between Medical, Mental Health Care
· CDC: Hospitals Making Progress Against 'Superbugs'
· ADHD Meds Tied to Lower Bone Density in Kids
· Protein-Heavy Meals Make You Feel Fuller, Sooner
· Raw Milk Blue Cheese Recalled by Whole Foods
· Happiness Might Sometimes Harm Your Heart
· Bacterial Infection Outbreak in WI: 18 Dead
· Low-Dose Aspirin and Lower Risk of Some Cancers
March 5, 2016
· After Hip Replacement, Therapy at Home May Suffice
· Loose Helmets Tied to Worse Teen Concussions
· This Therapy for Peanut Allergy Lasts, Study Finds
· Hair Styling Can Cause Hair Loss for Black Women
· Insights Into Zika Virus and Birth Defect Reported
· Happiness Might Sometimes Harm Your Heart
· Computer Use May Help Seniors' Memory Problems
· Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy May Carry Risks
· Raw Milk Blue Cheese Recalled by Whole Foods
· Overestimating Early Breast Cancer Return, Spread
March 7, 2016
· Caring for Sick Spouse May Raise Stroke Risk
· After Hip Replacement, Therapy at Home May Suffice
· Loose Helmets Tied to Worse Teen Concussions
· This Therapy for Peanut Allergy Lasts, Study Finds
· Hair Styling Can Cause Hair Loss for Black Women
· Insights Into Zika Virus and Birth Defect Reported
· Happiness Might Sometimes Harm Your Heart
· Computer Use May Help Seniors' Memory Problems
· Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy May Carry Risks
· Raw Milk Blue Cheese Recalled by Whole Foods
March 8, 2016
March 9, 2016
March 10, 2016
March 11, 2016
March 12, 2016
MIT: Drugs for psychiatric illnesses aren’t
very effective. But new research is offering renewed hope for better medicines ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/528146/shining-light-on-madness/
MIT: Solving the Autism Puzzle ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/533501/solving-the-autism-puzzle/
How to Mislead
With Statistics
Survey: Half of Community College Students Report Mental Health Problems
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/03/02/survey-half-community-college-students-report-mental-health-problems?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2e5937c71d-DNU20160302&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2e5937c71d-197565045
Newly released results of a survey of community college students found that almost 50 percent of those surveyed had a current or recent mental health problem. The Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a research organization, surveyed 4,000 students at 10 community colleges across seven states. The resulting report found that 36 percent of respondents suffered from depression, and 29 percent had struggled with anxiety. Those rates are higher than those among students at four-year institutions, the lab reported. And mental health conditions also were more common among younger students at community colleges.
Fewer than half of the community college students with a mental health condition were receiving treatment, the report found. Roughly 88 percent of community colleges do not have a psychiatrist or other licensed prescriber on staff or contracted to provide services, according to the lab. And 57 percent do not provide suicide prevention resources.
Jensen Comment
When the respondents diagnosis themselves there can be widely varying responses
in terms of subjective assessments of "depression" and "anxiety." At times
virtually all college students have anxiety. Community college students,
however, may have greater anxieties because they are more apt to be part-time
students who are unemployed or greatly under-employed. Many may be stressed out
by responsibilities for yount children while they are trying to earn college
credits.
Why 1 in 3 Lawyers Are Problem Drinkers ---
http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202750792679/Why-1-innbsp3-Lawyers-Are-Problem-Drinkers#ixzz41s4Ud3hV
"Eyeglasses That
Can Focus Themselves Are on the Way," by Rachel Metz, MIT's Technology
Review, March 9, 2016 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600963/eyeglasses-that-can-focus-themselves-are-on-the-way/#/set/id/601014/
Jensen Comment
Because of astigmatism I carry corrective driving glasses in the car. However,
for other times of my life I avoid eyeglasses that only slightly, very slightly,
improve my vision. The reason is that experts tell me that frequent eyeglass use
increases dependency upon those eyeglasses. Our eyes own focusing power weaken
with frequent eyeglass use. People who see poorly without eyeglasses must bear
this burden.
My concern is that eyeglasses that can focus themselves will further weaken the natural focusing power of eyes. However, I'm no expert on this matter, but it is a concern to raise with experts if you consider switching to eyeglasses that can focus themselves.
Humor March 1-15 2015
The Speaker is a
Weatherman ---
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LR2qZ0A8vic?rel=0
Happy St. Patrick's Day Pub Lunch ---
http://www.jacquielawson.com/
Les Beaux Frères - Serviette (brief nudity) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUr3XbROoA8
I had to wait a long time for a commercial for a new movie to end
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder --- https://www.youtube.com/embed/6oHBG3ABUJU
David Niven Presents an Oscar and Gets Interrupted by a Streaker (1974) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/david-niven-presents-an-oscar-and-gets-interrupted-by-a-streaker-1974.html
George Burns --
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?Leave the Driving to the Bus Driver But Bring Your Own Depends ---
http://www.20min.ch/ro/videotv/?vid=339276
Cartoons from the April 2014 edition of the Harvard
Business Review ---
Click Here
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/strategic-humor-cartoons-from-the-april-2014-issue/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29&cm_ite=DailyAlert-030314+%281%29&cm_lm=sp%3Arjensen%40trinity.edu&cm_ven=Spop-Email
The Darwin Awards --- http://www.darwinawards.com/
Humor February 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm
Humor January 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm
Humor December 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor123115.htm.htm
Humor November 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor113015.htm
Humor October 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor103115
Humor September 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Tidbits Archives --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in 2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you
have key words to enter --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
Online Distance
Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
· With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
· With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
· With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
· With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
The Cult of Statistical Significance: How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice,
and Lives
---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most
Accountants
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW:
1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox)
that probably will never be solved
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time ---
http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock and Calendar ---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected
Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you
zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
·
Bob Jensen's Video Tutorials and Other Helpers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideosSummary.htm
(Includes video tutorials on Camtasia, MS Access, MS Excel, Managerial
Accounting, and Accounting Theory)
·
Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
·
Accounting for Fraud ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraud.htm
·
Accounting Theory ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm
·
Electronic Commerce and Computing Security ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm
·
XBRL and OLAP ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
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AECM (Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing, doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics) research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk |
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AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1 |
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Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com |
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv
September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com] I found another listserve that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
There are several highly capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and the answers are often in depth. Scott Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
Yes
you may mention info on your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what
you say please say [... any CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif
Society of CPAs may join. It is possible to join without having a free
Yahoo account but then they will not have access to the files and other
items posted.
Please encourage your members to join our listserve.
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob
Jensen's Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu