Tidbits on September 30, 2020
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Part 1 of our 2020 Foliage
Season ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set23/FoliageSet14.htm
Tidbits on September 30, 2020
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Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Animated Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth
Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years
(1790 – 2010)
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time
---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Video: Ted Talk on 5 things scientists now know about
COVID-19 — and 5 they’re still figuring out ---
https://ideas.ted.com/5-things-that-scientists-now-know-about-covid-19-and-5-things-theyre-still-figuring-out/?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=ideas-blog-2
Video: Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman argue theory of
education ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MctafuXLho
The age-old question of when and how to assign low grades. Ingrid did not ask
when to pass brain surgeons or bridge builders versus poets and artists. Today
we might ask about what to do with police academy students who do not take
learning about race relations content seriously? Ingrid also did not ask the
question of whether grades motivate learners or whether a majority of students
taking courses for pass-fail grades learn as much course content as learners
getting grades A,B,C,D, or F. There's also a huge issue of how to deal with
students who do not even try to learn in course content, an issue dealt with
somewhat in the above video.
Aerial View of Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ATDjsJUi7M
Foliage in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOPSUMWbclU
Foliage at the Sunset Hill House Hotel in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowlAA9XIno
History of the Sunset Hill House Resort in Sugar Hill, NH 000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3uqK8T1ZDc
Lupines in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-1jCk4Ak0
Lupines in New Hampshire --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOR1vTHZjPo
Four Seasons at the
Sunset Hill House Hotel (near our cottage)
---
https://www.thesunsethillhouse.com/
Watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
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
Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in
Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui
Performances (1970) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/watch-rare-footage-of-jimi-hendrix-performing-voodoo-child-in-maui.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
Apple Cider, Sirens, and Nostradamus ---
https://jborden.com/2020/09/21/music-monday-apple-cider-sirens-and-nostradamus/
The youngest person to have a number 1 hit ---
https://jborden.com/2020/09/28/music-monday-the-youngest-person-to-have-a-number-one-song/
Walk Off the Earth Goes A Capella ---
https://jborden.com/2020/09/14/music-monday-walk-off-the-earth-goes-a-capella/
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First
Appearance in an Opera) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-favorite-opera-recordings-and-her-first-appearance-in-an-opera.html
Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Witness California's record blazes through the eyes of frontline
firefighters ---
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/witness-californias-record-blazes-through-the-eyes-of-frontline-firefighters/
High-Resolution Walking Tours of Italy’s Most Historic Places:
The Colosseum, Pompeii, St. Peter’s Basilica & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/high-resolution-walking-tours-of-italys-most-historic-places.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/the-curious-death-of-vincent-van-gogh.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
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
21 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should read ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-favorite-books-2016-10?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BIPrime_select&utm_campaign=BI
Prime 2020-09-15&utm_term=BI Prime Select
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 September 30, 2020
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations093020.htm
US News
Rankings: Trinity University Remains Number One in the West ---
https://www.trinity.edu/news/trinity-remains-number-one-west?utm_source=Our+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=57bae7951a-Tower_Sept20_employees&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_00cfaca66d-57bae7951a-160446777
How Loggers Helped Environmentalists Save a Spectacular Canadian Rainforest
---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/how-loggers-helped-environmentalists-save-a-spectacular-canadian-rainforest/?utm_source=Reasons+to+be+Cheerful&utm_campaign=a6e482dc15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_25_06_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_89fb038efe-a6e482dc15-389499692
Inside the Student-Led Movement to Depolarize College ---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/student-led-movement-depolarize-politics-college-campus/
Coronavirus weakening? Viral loads carried by patients on the decline, along
with death rate ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/coronavirus-viral-load-declining/
10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/
Giant Floating Balloons Will Provide Internet in Kenya ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1413-floating-internet-balloons/
Cincinnati Tenants Are Building Equity With Each Rent Payment ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cincinnati-renters-build-equity-with-each-payment/
How a conservative, oil-pumping state became one of the world’s biggest
generators of wind power ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/texas-wind-power-renewable-energy/
The Italian Fishermen Who Brought the Sea Back to Life ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-italian-fishermen-who-brought-the-sea-back-to-life/
European planemaker Airbus unveiled three designs it’s studying to build
hydrogen-powered aircraft, as it races to bring a zero-carbon passenger plane
into service by 2035 ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/airbus-unveils-hydrogen-powered-designs-for-zero-emission-flight?cmpid=BBD092120_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200921&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
How the 1970s Changed the U.S. Economy (which tells us something about the
future) ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-16/how-1970s-oil-prices-stagflation-changed-the-u-s-economy
70+ common online scams used by cyber criminals and fraudsters ---
https://www.comparitech.com/vpn/avoiding-common-scams-schemes/
A new report
finds a majority of students feel they can't express their opinions on campus,
especially when they are in the ideological minority (think conservative
economics) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/29/fire-report-students-are-censoring-their-opinions?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=8ce914a468-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-8ce914a468-197565045&mc_cid=8ce914a468&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Report ---
https://speech.collegepulse.com/
College Pulse, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and RealClearEducation have released the first-ever College Free Speech Rankings, a comprehensive comparison of the student experience of free speech on their campuses. These rankings are based on the voices of 20,000 currently enrolled students at 55 colleges and are designed to help parents and prospective students choose the right college.
Jensen Comment
The most protective university for free speech is no surprise.
BLM Protesters Target
Georgetown CVS Because Employees Called Police on Shoplifters ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/09/blm-protesters-target-georgetown-cvs-because-employees-called-police-on-shoplifters/
Publisher retracts nearly
two dozen articles, blocks nearly three dozen more, from alias-employing author
who plagiarized ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/09/17/publisher-retracts-nearly-two-dozen-articles-blocks-nearly-three-dozen-more-from-alias-employing-author-who-plagiarized/
“A wholly frustrating and
embarrassing process”: Authors retract paper on HPV vaccine and preterm birth
---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/09/23/a-wholly-frustrating-and-embarrassing-process-authors-retract-paper-on-hpv-vaccine-and-preterm-birth/
How the Boston Red SoxWin
With Data Analytics ---
https://blog.aicpa.org/2019/12/how-the-boston-red-sox-win-with-data-analytics.html#sthash.YaLhvhhB.dpbs
Bill McCarthy points out that the Red Sox are not winning very often these days.
The Murder of Professor
Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/the-murder-of-professor-schlick.html
The 10 Most Useless Phrases
in Finance ---
https://ritholtz.com/2020/09/the-10-most-useless-phrases-in-finance/
New Zealand's National
Library culls 600,000 books (some are not available "anywhere else")---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-culls-600000-books
Sheltered in the bunkers beneath the National Library in New Zealand’s capital rests a treasure trove of books, including nearly 2,200 first editions that have been carefully looked after for decades. But not for much longer.
The “overseas collection” – which includes a first edition of Richard Neville’s Play Power, a 1912 edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and multiple first editions of Graham Greene novels – is now headed out the door.
In total, the National Library in Wellington plans to get rid of more than 600,000 “foreign books” from their collection, saying they need to make space for more works on New Zealand, of which there are an additional 80,000 to 90,000 to store each year.
In a promotional video by public relations agency Double Denim (whose bill was paid by the Department of Internal Affairs) national librarian Bill Macnaught said the overseas collection would now “spark joy” in other places.
“No other library outside of New Zealand is going to collect all the stories of New Zealand, that’s our job at the National Library, we’re going to make more room for the New Zealand, Māori and Pacific collection,” Macnaught said, defending the cull.
Some 625,000 books are now in the process of being “rehomed”, as the library puts it, but the mass cull has caused despair among the country’s academics, historians, researchers and scholars, who say a literary crime is taking place in a year when many New Zealanders are distracted by the global pandemic.
“I weep, I literally weep, when I look at the lists of books that are going and I know are not available anywhere else,” says Michael Pringle, an independent scholar.
Hundreds of thousands of valuable and important books on religion, race, health, feminism and psychology will be removed in the cull, including works that are now out of print, and in some cases unable to be found anywhere else in the world, scholars say.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Efforts should be made to digitally preserve those books not available anywhere
else.
Questions Raised About
Purdue Global's Tax-Exempt Status ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/04/questions-raised-about-purdue-globals-tax-exempt-status
The Changing Law School
Curriculum: More Courses, Less Rigor?
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/09/the-changing-law-school-curriculum-more-courses-less-rigor.html
Jensen Comment
Academe in general is having a controversial cocktail of less rigor mixed with
grade inflation ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
What is New in Behavioral
Genetics ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/what-is-new-in-behavioral-genetics.html
The Devil and Karl Marx ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/09/16/the-devil-and-karl-marx-n2576177?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=09/16/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
TOEFL Testing Fraud:
Two Defendants Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Use Forged Passports and
Identification Cards in Widespread English Proficiency Exam Scheme Benefiting
Chinese Nationals Seeking Student Visas ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-defendants-plead-guilty-conspiracy-use-forged-passports-and-identification-cards?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1555735_nl_Daily-Briefing_date_20200925&cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=296279
Which economic methods are
in practice statistically more honest than others?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/which-economic-methods-are-in-practice-statistically-more-honest-than-others.html
… our results suggest that the [instrumental variables] and, to a lesser extent, [difference-in-difference] research bodies have substantially more p-hacking and/or selective publication than those based on [randomized controlled trials] and [regression-discontinuity]…
Time to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace
uncertainty, say statisticians ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2019/03/21/time-to-say-goodbye-to-statistically-significant-and-embrace-uncertainty-say-statisticians/
Three years ago, the American Statistical Association (ASA) expressed hope that the world would move to a “post-p-value era.” The statement in which they made that recommendation has been cited more than 1,700 times, and apparently, the organization has decided that era’s time has come. (At least one journal had already banned p values by 2016.) In an editorial in a special issue of The American Statistician out today, “Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond P<0.05,” the executive director of the ASA, Ron Wasserstein, along with two co-authors, recommends that when it comes to the term “statistically significant,” “don’t say it and don’t use it.” (More than 800 researchers signed onto a piece published in Nature yesterday calling for the same thing.) We asked Wasserstein’s co-author, Nicole Lazar of the University of Georgia, to answer a few questions about the move.
So the ASA wants to say goodbye to “statistically significant.” Why, and why now?
In the past few years there has been a growing recognition in the scientific and statistical communities that the standard ways of performing inference are not serving us well. This manifests itself in, for instance, the perceived crisis in science (of reproducibility, of credibility); increased publicity surrounding bad practices such as p-hacking (manipulating the data until statistical significance can be achieved); and perverse incentives especially in the academy that encourage “sexy” headline-grabbing results that may not have much substance in the long run. None of this is necessarily new, and indeed there are conversations in the statistics (and other) literature going back decades calling to abandon the language of statistical significance. The tone now is different, perhaps because of the more pervasive sense that what we’ve always done isn’t working, and so the time seemed opportune to renew the call.
Much of the editorial is an impassioned plea to embrace uncertainty. Can you explain?
The world is inherently an uncertain place. Our models of how it works — whether formal or informal, explicit or implicit — are often only crude approximations of reality. Likewise, our data about the world are subject to both random and systematic errors, even when collected with great care. So, our estimates are often highly uncertain; indeed, the p-value itself is uncertain. The bright-line thinking that is emblematic of declaring some results “statistically significant” (p<0.05) and others “not statistically significant” (p>0.05) obscures that uncertainty, and leads us to believe that our findings are on more solid ground than they actually are. We think that the time has come to fully acknowledge these facts and to adjust our statistical thinking accordingly.
Continued in article
To p-Value or Not to p-Value? An Answer From Signal Detection Theory
---
https://open.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/871
“In statistics, Type I errors (false alarms) and Type II errors (misses) are sometimes considered separately, with Type I errors being a function of the alpha level and Type II errors being a function of power. An advantage of signal detection theory is that it combines Type I and Type II errors into a single analysis of discriminability…”
“…p values were effective, though not perfect, at discriminating between real and null effects.”
“Bayes factor incurs no advantage over p values at detecting a real effect versus a null effect … This is because Bayes factors are redundant with p values for a given sample size.”
“When power is high, researchers using p values to determine statistical significance should use a lower criterion.”
“… a change to be more conservative will decrease false alarm rates at the expense of increasing miss rates. False alarm rates should not be considered in isolation without also considering miss rates. Rather, researchers should consider the relative importance for each in deciding the criterion to adopt.”
“…given that true null results can be theoretically interesting and practically important, a conservative criterion can produce critically misleading interpretations by labeling real effects as if they were null effects.”
“Moving forward, the recommendation is to acknowledge the relationship between false alarms and misses, rather than implement standards based solely on false alarm rates.”
Continued in article
Tim Harford: How to Make the World Add Up
Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-World-Add-Up/dp/1408712237/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=how+to+make+the+world+add+up&qid=1600435042&sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20
Community colleges are seeing a bleak enrollment picture and undergraduate
enrollments are down largely across the board, but not by as much as some had
feared ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/24/undergraduate-enrollment-falls-25-percent-community-college-enrollment-75-percent?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=83da3f9035-WNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-83da3f9035-197565045&mc_cid=83da3f9035&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Inside Higher Ed: The
Moment Is Primed for Asynchronous Learning ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/16/dont-dismiss-asynchronous-learning-experts-say-improve-it?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=74cd0208d3-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-74cd0208d3-197565045&mc_cid=74cd0208d3&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
Courses that use textbooks and other assigned readings have asynchronous
components even if they are traditional lecture-method or tutorial-method
synchronous courses. Evidence from experiments such as the five-year
SCALE experiments for 30 varied courses for resident students at the
University of Illinois decades ago reveal that asynchronous learning that
eliminates synchronous "classroom" meetings of students can improve learning for
very good students highly motivated to learn on their own. Reasons include time
savings that arising for more efficient logistics such as eliminating logistical
time such as getting to and from classes and waiting for classes to begin. Time
savings are even greater for off-campus commuting students.
But the evidence for weaker
and/or less-motivated students is more clouded in totally asynchronous courses.
Such students often depend upon more contact with teachers and other students.
This, however, can be be accomplished in ways other than classroom meetings. For
example, if teachers are available online with instant messaging weaker students
may do better than they do in classroom settings. But teachers cannot be
available for instant messaging if they are assigned large numbers of students.
Also teachers online should not simply give out answers to students who are too
lazy or otherwise unable to to learn the material on their own ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#IM
There are just too many variables to to draw general conclusions regarding pedagogy.
Ransomware --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
Ransomware accounted for 41%
of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020 ---
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-accounts-to-41-of-all-cyber-insurance-claims/
21 books billionaire Warren
Buffett thinks everyone should read ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-favorite-books-2016-10?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BIPrime_select&utm_campaign=BI
Prime 2020-09-15&utm_term=BI Prime Select
Is Academe Awash in Liberal
Bias? ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-academe-awash-in-liberal-bias?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1523870_nl_Academe-Today_date_20200915&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh
Political views vary by discipline. Gross and Simmons found the highest concentrations of conservative faculty in business and health sciences (25 percent and 21 percent respectively). Computer science and engineering have a high proportion of moderates (78 percent) with a symmetrical split of liberals and conservatives (11 percent each).
These disciplinary differences matter, because students are not uniformly distributed across the disciplines. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the two most popular majors are business and health sciences — the same fields with the highest concentrations of conservative faculty members.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
The above article tries to make a case that academe is not awash in liberal
bias. However when the most conservative faculty by discipline are 25% and 21%
conservative it's pretty difficult to make a strong case that conservatives are
not in a small minority in all of academe.
Pew Research Survey: Political Bias and
Anti-Americanism on College Campuses ---
Bob Jensen's threads on the
liberal bias of academe are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias
Ex-School Employee Admits
She Aided Cheating on SAT, ACT ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/28/ex-school-employee-admits-she-aided-cheating-sat-act?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f845ea7b54-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f845ea7b54-197565045&mc_cid=f845ea7b54&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Facebook: A precious
metals dealer that sold overpriced coins to senior citizens was sued this week
by the US federal government and 30 states for alleged large-scale fraud ---
https://qz.com/1749695/facebook-ads-targeted-fox-news-fans-for-shady-silver-coin-scheme/
Ex-DEA agent pleads guilty
to 19 federal counts in jaw-dropping corruption case ---
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/former-dea-agent-who-once-earned-praise-superiors-pleads-guilty-19
Current and past editions of my blog called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Cryptocurrency --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
Regulators in Africa’s big
economies are scrambling to get on top of a spike in cryptocurrency trade ---
https://qz.com/africa/1904921/are-cryptocurrencies-regulated-in-africa/
Video:
Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman argue theory of education ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MctafuXLho
The age-old question of when and how to assign low grades. Ingrid did not ask
when to pass brain surgeons or bridge designers versus poets and artists. Today
we might ask about what to do with police academy students who do not take
learning about race relations content seriously? Ingrid also did not ask the
question of whether grades motivate learners or whether a majority of students
taking courses for pass-fail grades learn as much course content as learners
getting grades A,B,C,D, or F. There's also a huge issue of how to deal with
students who do not even try to learn in course content, an issue dealt with
somewhat in the above video.
UCLA Reinstates Prof
Suspended for Refusing to Change Exam or Grades for Black Students ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/09/ucla-reinstates-prof-suspended-for-refusing-to-change-exam-or-grades-for-black-students/
Eliminating the Grading
System in College: The Pros and Cons
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/eliminating-grading-system-college-pros-cons/
The Disgrace of Grade
Inflation in North America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
Stanford University business
professors share comment briefly on six books they’re reading at home right now
---
Click Here
Different Shades of Green
New Scientist: Rare plant may prevent the first lithium quarry in the US
from opening ---
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251905-rare-plant-may-prevent-the-first-lithium-quarry-in-the-us-from-opening/#ixzz6Y8NKXuTx
How to Mislead With Statistics
Robust Statistics --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics
Slate: The Sturgis
Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19 ---
https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-explosion-paper.html
Jensen Comment
One of the common mistakes in statistical and analytical analysis is to draw
conclusions that are not suitably stable under slight variations of underlying
assumptions. These mistakes are aggravated by making assumptions that are
themselves highly questionable. Such mistakes are especially common in hostile
political settings. I might note that the Slate magazine is highly left leaning.
This article supports its claims of credibility ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(magazine)
Causal Analysis of the
Determinants of (increased) life expectancy ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/determinants-of-life-expectancy.html
From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on September 17, 2020
An update on the Harvard case on race in admissions (of Asian Americans)
A federal appeals court in Boston heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that has challenged Harvard University’s consideration of race in admissions and that could have wide implications for affirmative action at selective colleges because it is expected to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. A recap: Harvard was accused by Students for Fair Admissions, or SFFA, of discriminating against Asian Americans in its admissions process. Last year a federal district judge in Boston ruled for Harvard, saying the university’s consideration of race in admissions was constitutional. But the judge also ruled that SFFA had not proved that Harvard admissions officers held any racial animus, nor did it present an Asian American applicant who should have or would have otherwise been admitted to Harvard. SFFA appealed that ruling, and made its case anew on Wednesday. Our Nell Gluckman has the highlights.
How to Mislead With Statistics
Children Who Attended Preschool Stay in Education Longer and Earn Higher
Incomes ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1345-head-start-works/
Jensen Comment
I suspect this is an illustration of spurious correlation suggesting causality.
Children who attend preschool are more likely to have higher income working
parents. Parental income and a myriad of other factors affect number of years a
child stays in formal education. I suspect preschool is one of the least
important causal factors in this regard except as it correlates with more
important interacting causal factors, especially if we're referring to preschool
for children who are not disabled by learning disabilities.
Preschool may make children better adapted for kindergarten, but even the disadvantages of never having attended kindergarten usually wash out by the time the child reaches third or fourth grade in an elementary schooling system. Much more depends on the impact of the home environment of children over all elementary school years.
And then there are the rankings of the Finland education system as the very best
in the world. However, much of the credit goes to a factor outside the education
system --- interaction of fathers with children
Finland is purportedly the only nation of the world where fathers spend more
time with school-aged children than mothers ---
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/04/finland-only-country-world-dad-more-time-kids-moms
Also see --- https://www.grin.com/document/322993
Can remote work lead to
double taxation?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/remote-work-double-taxation
What Is Apple One, and How
Much Does the Subscription Cost?
https://www.howtogeek.com/690298/what-is-apple-one/
Tax, Class, Women, and Elder
Care ---
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2634&context=sulr
Elder care is a large and growing sector in the comprehensive health care system in the United States. It is an issue of particular importance to women because women live longer than men, have higher incidences of degenerative ailments, and are more likely to be institutionalized. Women also face greater financial challenges in funding their health care maintenance. Whereas wealthy individuals enjoy a multitude of elder care choices and can even self-insure to avoid the steep expense and risk of long-term care insurance, most women do not possess the resources to exercise such a wide degree of choice. Middle-income women increasingly feel the squeeze of concurrent rises in medical and housing costs and must often engage in contingency Medicaid planning. Low-income women, particularly those who are single, living in rural areas, or members of an ethnic minority, have few viable health care options and are the most likely to be herded into institutional care facilities. Nursing homes carry high costs and often do not offer high-level or personalized care. Current tax policy, however, is structured to favor institutional care. Conspicuously lacking are adequate subsidies to facilitate home-based options and meaningful support for caregiving labors, both key factors that contribute to the dearth of care options for our poorest citizens. The tax system is in dire need of modification to address this exploding elder care crisis, requiring explicit acknowledgment of the need to generate revenues dedicated to fulfilling our public commitment to the basic welfare of this rapidly growing cohort of the American population.
Claims about antibodies and
T-cells and Sweden ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/claims-about-antibodies-and-t-cells-and-sweden.html
Video: Ted Talk on 5 things scientists now know
about COVID-19 — and 5 they’re still figuring out ---
https://ideas.ted.com/5-things-that-scientists-now-know-about-covid-19-and-5-things-theyre-still-figuring-out/?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=ideas-blog-2
Monarch butterflies’
spectacular migration is at risk – an ambitious new plan aims to help save it
---
https://theconversation.com/monarch-butterflies-spectacular-migration-is-at-risk-an-ambitious-new-plan-aims-to-help-save-it-136479
What Was IBM’s OS/2, and Why
Did It Lose to Windows?
https://www.howtogeek.com/688970/what-was-ibms-os2-and-why-did-it-matter/
$20.70: Cost of a three-minute call from New York to San Francisco in 1915.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s $530 today.
Other quotations from the above article
$850: Average cost of a fax machine for the home in 1991. That’s $1,600 today.
23 hours, 39 minutes: Standing record for world’s longest Zoom meeting
$20,000: Average cost of building a standard 12×12 ft home office in the US
85.02 mbps: Average download speed in Taiwan, the country with the fastest internet currently
3%: Increase in value for a single family home in the US with access to broadband internet prior to the pandemic
100 inches: Diameter of Hugh Hefner’s bed, which doubled as a desk
$24,000: Auction price of an Algeco 1969 pre-fab home office pod
Google may soon face an
antitrust lawsuit from the US Department of Justice ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-antitrust-lawsuit-from-us-justice-department-approaches-2020-9?IR=T&utm_medium=email&utm_term=BII_Daily&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_campaign=BII
Weekender 2020.9.25 - Marketing
The US Department of Justice began meeting with state attorneys general on Wednesday regarding its upcoming antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Talks are scheduled to continue until today, with a lawsuit expected to be filed as soon as next week, per Politico. The lawsuit reportedly centers around Google's dominance in the search market: The company accounts for more than 91% of internet searches worldwide this year, per Statcounter, and the lawsuit will focus on how Google uses that dominance to preference its own products over those of its competitors.
While Google's advertising business has also been under investigation, it may not be included in the suit. Google's search and advertising businesses are connected, of course—ads on Google search alone account for $34.28 billion in revenues in the US, per our estimates. But for now, it looks like concerns about the anti-competitive nature of Google's wider ad tech stack—which includes products like its supply-side platform Google Ad Manager and measurement platform Google Analytics—could be left out of next week's lawsuit.
That investigation isn't as far along as search, so lawmakers may not include it so a viable case can be filed by the end of September, according to The New York Times. That's not an all-clear, though: The investigation is still ongoing, and it's been reported that there's still a possibility that states could soon file a separate, broader suit touching on these issues.
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What happened to the songs
of sparrows after Covid-19 invaded our cities?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/when-covid-19-silenced-cities-birdsong-recaptured-its-former-glory
Thank you Bob Blystone for the heads up.
U.S. Housing Boom is Being
Threatened by a Short Supply
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/housing-boom-in-u-s-threatened-by-shortage-of-available-homes?cmpid=BBD092520_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200925&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Jensen Comment
I think home owners are anticipating high inflation decades ahead such that home
ownership is beginning to look like a better investment than today's
low-interest savings alternatives. Hence they are more reluctant to sell their
homes after refinancing at record low mortgage rates. In the meantime, city
dwellers anxious to move to the suburbs or further out are finding less housing
available for their moves.
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Meteors that brushed Earth's atmosphere may have brought life to Venus, study
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What is New in Behavioral Genetics? ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/what-is-new-in-behavioral-genetics.html
10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/
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Claims about antibodies and T-cells and Sweden ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/claims-about-antibodies-and-t-cells-and-sweden.html
Ecologists sound alarm on plastic pollution ---
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Parenting in harder in the era of technology
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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/the-murder-of-professor-schlick.html
Trump: “I go to my guys, ‘What about doing a little movement on the dollar?’” he said, but they countered that was not possible. “‘Sir, we can’t do that. It has to float naturally.’”
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Martha, the last passenger pigeon to ever live on Earth, died on September
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What does this have to do with the study of history today?
https://petapixel.com/2020/09/14/passenger-pigeon-manifesto/
The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh ---
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What Was IBM’s OS/2, and Why Did It Lose to Windows?
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Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
---
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September 16, 2020
· PA’s COVID-19 Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional
· Can a Parkinson's Drug Treat Macular Degeneration?
· COVID Drives Macy’s to Scrap Parade Crowds
September 17, 2020
· PA’s COVID-19 Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional
· Do Eyeglasses Offer Protection Against COVID-19?
· Coronavirus and Apartments: What’s the Risk?
September 19, 2020
· Experts: Crackdowns on COVID Rule Breakers Harmful
· NYC Diners May get 10% 'COVID-19 Recovery Charge'
· 90,000 Young U.S. Adults May Get Cancer This Year
September 21, 2020
· Experts: Crackdowns on COVID Rule Breakers Harmful
· NYC Diners May get 10% 'COVID-19 Recovery Charge'
· 90,000 Young U.S. Adults May Get Cancer This Year
September 22, 2020
· Global Life Expectancy Likely to Drop Due to COVID
· Glass-Topped Tables Injure Thousands Each Year
· COVID Outbreak Among U of Wisconsin Football Team
September 28. 2020
· Severe COVID Clues: Autoantibodies, Gene Mutations
· Is Key Safety Data at Risk in Race for COVID Vaccine?
· FDA Authorizes Point-of-Care COVID Antibody Test
September 29, 2020
· Doctors Wary of Rushed COVID Vaccine
· Florida Lifts COVID-19 Restaurant Restrictions
· Virginia Governor and Wife Test Positive for COVID
New Measures of Health Care Productivity ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27848
Estimating medical care productivity is a central economic challenge. This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector that appropriately measures health care productivity and applies that to the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. The central output of the satellite account is health. The primary input is medical care; we also examine the impact of behavioral risk factors. Our empirical work measures the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehensive set of 80 conditions. We estimate that medical care has positive productivity as a whole, with aggregate productivity growth of 9% over the time period. However, there is significant heterogeneity in productivity by condition. At the upper end, care for cardiovascular disease has been extremely productive. In contrast, care for people with mental illness and musculoskeletal conditions has been costly but not productive.
10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/
Breadfruit emerges as protein-rich ‘superfood,’ healthy alternative to
flour ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/breadfruit-superfood-healthy-flour-alternative/
September 20, 2020 reply from Jagdish Gangolly
Whoever wrote this article hasn't seen a breadfruit tree or eaten the "fruit" (actually Breadfruit is more a vegetable than a fruit). What is shown in the article is a Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) and NOT a breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). You can tell by the shape of the leaves and the shape/rind of the fruit. Compare the fruit and leaves below. Breadfruit is always eaten raw, and usually not allowed to ripen. Jackfruit can be eaten raw (cooked) or ripe. Breadfruit has a smoother surface relative to Jackfruit which is almost thorny. Jackfruit has a lot of latex in the fruit, but Breadfruit has none. Breadfruit rarely grows over a pound or two, Jackfruit can be as heavy as 120 pounds.
Jackfruit has been advanced sometimes as a solution to the world hunger problem, since it grows in abundance with virtually no care. It even grows wild in forests and supports an ecosystem of its own. Online, I have been an evangelist for bringing jackfruit and breadfruit into the horticultural economy, but not many are listening. The same way five decades ago I argued strenuously with the company I worked for to develop bamboo, Casuarina, Eucalyptus, and Moringa plantations to support paper-making; they did not listen. But then some years after I left the company, bamboo flowered and died, and the company in a panic mode started plantations. Disasters provide wonderful opportunities for innovations because human nature is to do the same things and expect different results (apologies to Einstein). In this case, maybe an old British colonial style famine will do the trick for many poor countries.
When I was growing up, we had a tree in our backyard that kept my whole family fed for weeks. There were times when we had it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner without getting tired of it.
Regards,
Jagdish
Digital health startup GoodRx is going public
The startup, which provides telehealth and discount prescription services, filed paperwork for an initial public offering in August. It would trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker "GDRX."
In an updated filing on Monday, GoodRx noted that it is looking to price its public offering between $24 and $28 per share. At $26, the midpoint of that range, GoodRx and its investors stand to make $900 million.
The updated filing also noted that private equity firm Silver Lake has agreed to purchase $100 million in stock coinciding with the IPO.
GoodRx now joins the growing parade of companies in healthcare and technology that have filed to go public in 2020, marking a banner year for public offerings as markets continue to surpass all-time highs.
Digital health and telehealth companies, in particular, have seen a surge in public market activity as the coronavirus pandemic has ushered in what some are calling a new era for the healthcare industry. Coronavirus-induced shutdowns have driven wary patients from doctor's offices and waiting rooms in favor of at-home care, spurring growth in an industry that had been previously considered niche.
GoodRx's filing came just days after telehealth giant and Teladoc competitor American Well filed to go public with $100 million in funding from Google, an unusual deal that spoke to the tech giant's optimistic outlook on telehealth even once the pandemic subsides.
GoodRx is best known for pulling together cash prices for medications at different pharmacies as a price-comparison tool for people paying out-of-pocket, but recently added virtual visits and other elements of telehealth to its services. It has also been adding direct-to-consumer prescription services, like Lemonaid and Hims, to its comparisons.
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Humor for September 2020
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
Some people write lockdown because they can't spell kwarinteen
Does the jelly in a donut count as a serving of fruit
Asking for a friendIf your underwear and jeans can't stop a fart, how is a mask going to stop a virus?
The importance of punctuation
"I'm giving up drinking until it's over."
"I'm giving up; drinking until it's over."
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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