Tidbits on March 31, 2021
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Wes Lavin's Photographs of How March Brings Out the
Sweetness of Our Maple Trees
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2021-1/2021March.htm
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Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
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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
Bill Gates Video: The Innovations We Need to Avoid a Climate Disaster
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_innovations_we_need_to_avoid_a_climate_disaster?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=newest-talks-3
Video: Economics for Beginners ---
Click Here
Hundreds of Drones Put On an Aerial Display Over Dublin for St. Patrick's Day
---
Click Here
Iceland's Volcanic Eruption ---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/mar/20/iceland-volcano-eruption-under-way-on-mountain-near-reykjavik-video-report
Plants are Cool, Too --- www.youtube.com/channel/UC2jD-ZIIgTfrk7DxzRQji_w/featured
The Growth of London, from the Romans to the 21st Century, Visualized in a
Time-Lapse Animated Map ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/the-growth-of-london.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
St. Patrick's Day Music ---
https://jborden.com/2021/03/15/music-monday-an-early-tribute-to-st-paddys-day/
Irish Rovers Unicorn Song ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Bob Hope and James Cagney ---
http://videos2view.net/Hope-Cagney.htm
Four Cellists Play Ravel’s “Bolero” on One Cello ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/four-cellists-play-ravels-bolero-on-one-cello.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Hear J.S. Bach’s Music Performed on the Lautenwerck, Bach’s
Favorite Lost Baroque Instrument ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/hear-j-s-bachs-music-performed-on-the-lautenwerck-bachs-favorite-lost-baroque-instrument.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Music: A Unique Way to Teach the Basics of
Accounting ---
https://jborden.com/2021/03/22/music-monday-a-unique-way-to-teach-the-basics-of-accounting/
Jensen Comment
There are a lot of tools and tricks of the trade. I think I'd pass on using
music to teach basic accounting. It's better to put students on laptops and use
narrated Camtasia illustrations of how accounting rules and traditions work.
Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Hear Marianne Faithfull’s Three Versions of “As Tears Go By,”
Each Recorded at a Different Stage of Life (1965, 1987 & 2018) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/hear-marianne-faithfulls-three-versions-of-as-tears-go-by.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bad, Bad Leeroy Brown ---
The Number Ones: Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”
(stereogum.com)
Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download
480,000 Works of Art ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/the-louvres-entire-collection-goes-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from
World-Class Museums ---
Click Here
Take a Peek at Celebrity Mansions ---
https://www.buzzaura.com/30-celebrity-houses/
A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7
Gigapixel Panoramic Photo of the Entire Milky Way ---
Click Here
The Guardian: Striking Images From Around the World ---
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/26/20-photographs-of-the-week
Explore a New Archive of 2,200 Historical Wildlife Illustrations
(1916-1965): Courtesy of The Wildlife Conservation Society ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/explore-a-new-archive-of-2200-historical-wildlife-illustrations.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
How Leonardo da Vinci Made His Magnificent Drawings Using Only a
Metal Stylus, Pen & Ink, and Chalk ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/how-leonardo-da-vinci-made-his-magnificent-drawings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Women Street Photographers: The Web Site, Instragram Account &
Book That Amplify the Work of Women Artists Worldwide ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/women-street-photographers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
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
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Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on March 31, 2021
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations033121.htm
iOS 14.4.2: Apple Releases
Emergency iPhone Security Update ---
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2021/03/26/ios-1442-new-update-now-warning-issued-to-all-iphone-users/?sh=341f54402a28
President of U. Texas at
Austin: “There Is No Higher Education Without Free Speech” ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/president-of-u-texas-at-austin-there-is-no-higher-education-without-free-speech/
Jay Hartzell graduated in business and economics at Trinity University in San Antonio.
Book Reviews
Chalkdust Mathematics Book
of the Year: Molly and the Mathematical Mystery
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/molly-and-the-mathematical-mystery/
An interactive children’s book that encourages the reader to solve clues to
follow the adventure.
The Last Gold Rush Ever! ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/book-review-the-last-gold-rush-ever-another-winner-by-charles-goyette
Fergus McCullough favorite
reads of 2020 ---
https://fergus-mccullough.com/index.php/2021/01/03/my-favourite-reads-of-2020/
The Atlantic's Library of
Possible Futures ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/02/future-shock-pop-futurism-pandemic/617867/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=books-briefing-newsletter&utm_content=20210319&silverid-ref=NTk4MzY1OTg0MzY5S0
Good News Tidbits
Scientists can now sequence an entire genome overnight ---
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/25/magazine/genome-sequencing-covid-variants.html?action=click&module=Top
Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Antiviral drug molnupiravir, still in clinical trials, would give doctors an
important new weapon against coronaviruses and future pandemics. This is how it
works. ---
Click Here
Duke University classes you can take online for free, from machine learning to
dog psychology ---
https://www.businessinsider.
Google's top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism
operation ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021318/google-security-shut-down-counter-terrorist-us-ally/
Note that this was a counterterrorism operation by a USA ally. Thanks for
nothing Google.
The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,000 Works
of Art ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/the-louvres-entire-collection-goes-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Video: Economics for Beginners ---
Click Here
Open Educational Resources
Toolkit ---
https://guides.library.uoit.ca/OER-Toolkit
Endangered condors return to
northern California skies after nearly a century ---
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/26/california-condor-reintroduced-yurok-tribe
BirdCast: You Can Now
Forecast the Migration of Birds Across the U.S. Just Like the Weather ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/birdcast.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
It seems to me that our first migrating birds in March are robins that are all
over the place for a short while even when there's still snow on the ground.
They never stay. I think the reason is that our mean mountain crows will eat the
robins' blue eggs or babies still in the nests. The robins prefer town nests
where there are fewer mean crows.
Child Cancer Survival Rates
are Increasing ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1278-child-cancer-survival/
American bald eagles have
made 'strong return' from brink of extinction ---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/25/american-bald-eagles-strong-return-extinction
Seeking sustainable new
revenue streams, 16 major university presses have partnered with a for-profit
publishing house to sell digital versions of their annual front-list collections
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/23/initiative-seeks-create-ebook-sales-model-works-university-presses-and-libraries
Speech Disorder Resources
for Students ---
https://edubirdie.com/blog/speech-disorder-resources-for-students
Bob Jensen's threads on new technologies for disabled students in general ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
African Countries Are
Quashing Malaria ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1172-africa-squashing-malaria/
So many New Yorkers have
left the city that rents could keep stay wildly cheap for the rest of the year
---
Click Here
Amazon is launching its
medical care business for its employees and other companies across the US ---
Amazon launches its medical care business nationally ---
Click Here
Billions Can Now Drink
(water) Safely
---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/
Tax report: Families dig up
new tax breaks ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/tax-report-families-dig-up-new-tax-breaks
Also see
https://www.cpajournal.com/2021/03/24/tax-changes-for-individuals-in-the-consolidated-appropriations-act-of-2021/
Giant Pandas Are Rebounding
---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/880-giant-pandas-rebounding/
How to "find" your lost weed
in Maine ---
Just login to this site, and select the cannabis or
cannabis products you lost, and give us your address. We will find YOUR weed and
get it back to you ASAP. Fees vary based on the time it takes us to find your
weed, the quantity of weed we have to locate, and the distance in which we have
to travel to get YOUR LOST weed back to you.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/maine-markets-in-everything-those-new-service-sector-jobs.html
Jensen Comment
For financial auditors valuation matters greatly if items being valued are
fungible or not. Non-fungible items (like site value of land) are hard to value
because of thin markets relative to valuation of replaceable inventory having
deep markets.
Bad News Tidbits
College Scams and How to
Avoid Them ---
https://www.idstrong.com/sentinel/8-college-scams/
Fed
appears intent to limit bond purchases to $120 billion per month or less than
half the projected deficit.
Biden Chose a Terrible Time to Finance $1.9 Million in New Spending
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/petermorici/2021/03/26/biden-will-regret-the-19-trillion-stimulus-n2586949?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f
Note that the Federal Reserve seems unwilling to print all the amount of
money Biden needs for the spending gap between what he thinks can be taxed and
what must be borrowed/printed. This article contains content that the liberal
media just will not own up to in their zeal to not print/say anything negative
about Biden's spending plans. Read the article carefully and comment on content
rather than who published the article. The rock is that there's a limit beyond
which increased taxation is counterproductive. The hard place is that the
Federal Reserve is the only buyer for the kind of debt (trillions) that Biden
wants to sell. If the Fed finances more than $120 billion per month the added
printed money spent by the Fed will be highly inflationary. Why don't
politicians think of these things before they pass spending bills without
establishing the ways and means of how to finance the spending? No there are not
enough fat cats to sacrifice as the ways and means of financing the massive new
government spending!
Noah Smith on the new macro
wars: Academics are either remaining silent or letting politics trump their
scholarship ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/noah-smith-on-the-new-macro-wars.html
Jensen Comment
I think some
extreme scholars (think Paul Krugman) are willing to sacrifice the
USA economy as a price to pay for eliminating capitalism for good
By the time they're done the USA will have become a third world country that's
overpopulated and underfed. That's one way of stopping migration into the USA.
With Negative Rates, Homeowners in Europe Are Paid to Borrow ---
http://l.em.dowjones.com/rts/go2.aspx?h=46503&tp=i-1NHD-J0-V3-3XN6w-1p-3mZJX-1c-Z31-3XZVC-l5rctRTXW2-15E4X3
I consider this bad new for the reason given below.
The Guardian: If the European economy recovers and fiscal
stimulus turbocharges pent-up demand, a lot of bank credit could suddenly emerge
from central bank money. Price growth will then begin to accelerate, and the ECB
will have a very hard time curbing it
without having a functioning inflation brake
---
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/24/why-is-no-one-in-europe-talking-about-dangers-of-rising-inflation
Beware a trap baited with
cheap mortgage rates. A year into the pandemic, there are hardly any homes left
— and they're almost all over-priced ---
It's a horrible time to buy a house (businessinsider.com)
At the same time, houses are inflation hedges, contrary to what Paul Krugman
says, massive government spending will trigger inflation.
Biden planning $3 trillion
in new spending on infrastructure, climate change, free community college,
universal pre-K ---
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-planning-3-trillion-spending-package
Also see
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-could-be-in-bidens-massive-infrastructure-bill-2021-3
I call this bad news since $3 trillion plus $1.9 trillion there sums to more
than the $4.4 trillion budget of the Federal government spent on everything in
2019. How can any nation double its spending without creating hyperinflation?
Biden promises a lot of it will be raised by issuing more debt massively beyond
what can be taxed, but the only significant buyer of that debt will be the
Federal Reserve that will pay for that debt with Quantitative Easing (call that
printing money) that will cause soaring inflation ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
Countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe that overspent massively with
printed money ended up with hyperinflation. An egg in Zimbabwe eventually cost
$2 million Zimbabwe dollars. Two USA quarters are now worth more than $1 million
Venezuela dollars. To make matters worse, the USA economy is still in recovery
after the enormous blow the pandemic. Now is certainly not the time to double
the Federal budget!
New Zealand hospitals in
crisis after 'biggest January, February on record' ---
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-hospitals-in-crisis-after-biggest-january-february-on-record/7ICBYUJ6KVNKYSP7DXMZNBOTDY/
This is not a pandemic crisis or a problem with too many tourists during the
pandemic. The Corona-19 virus was handled quite well in New Zealand, partly
because this remote nation is so isolated and easy to shut down. The current
"hospital crisis" is more of a problem of not building capacity to meet
unexpected demand in general. New Zealand has had some chronic problems with
shortages of some medical specialists and relatively high turnover of nurses ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_New_Zealand
Former Pitt Official
Indicted for Selling Stolen Equipment and Supplies ---
Click Here
Police warn students to
avoid science website ---
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-56462390
Please, Not Again
Suez Canal ship crisis threatens to unleash worldwide toilet paper shortage
---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/suez-canal-ship-crisis-threatens-to-unleash-worldwide-toilet-paper-shortage/
Over the past few years,
there's been a spate of Tesla solar panels catching fire — from residential
homes to Walmart and Amazon locations ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-solar-panel-fires-walmart-amazon-safety-regulator-investigation-foia-2021-3
Chronicle of Higher
Education: The humanities curriculum is stale. The majors are stale.
Here’s a plan for reinvention ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-humanities-have-a-marketing-problem?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2132439_nl_Academe-Today_date_20210323&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh
The "plan" is vague and needs a lot of filling in. Here are a few specific ideas
---
https://paperwritten.com/blog/humanities-topics/
A huge problem is that, except for law school and MBA studies, most career
graduate studies programs are built on top of non-humanities undergraduate
studies. STEM graduate studies require STEM undergraduate studies. Engineering
graduate programs require undergraduate engineering degrees. Accounting graduate
studies require undergraduate accounting studies. No you can't even take the CPA
exam without having required undergraduate accounting courses.
Biden locks media out of
border operation amid spiraling crisis – reporters look in from Mexico ---
https://www.foxnews.com/media/photojournalist-biden-media-access-border-patrol-operations
The Economics of Tennis is
Broken: Most Professional Players Are Not Even Breaking Even ---
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tennis-has-an-income-inequality-problem/
Twitter Economics Has Led Us
Astray ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/twitter-economics-has-again-led-us-astray.html
Preschoolers with too much
screen time less likely to make friends, develop emotional and behavioral issues
---
https://www.studyfinds.org/preschoolers-screen-time-issues/
Prices are surging for
construction materials, and builders are passing the costs to home buyers as
demand remains high ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/commodities-boom-hits-home-11615973404?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
FBI Warns of Increased
Ransomware Attacks Targeting Colleges ---
Click Here
Fresno County Woman Arrested
for over $790,000 in Crop Insurance Fraud ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/fresno-county-woman-arrested-over-790000-crop-insurance-fraud
Zurich’s Oldest Private Bank Admits To Helping U.S. Taxpayers Hide Offshore
Accounts From IRS ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/zurich-s-oldest-private-bank-admits-helping-us-taxpayers-hide-offshore-accounts-irs
AstraZeneca Vaccine Ineffective Against S. African Variant ---
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210317/astrazeneca-vaccine-ineffective-against-s-african-variant
Meet the medical resident who had his wife peer review five of his papers ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2021/03/19/meet-the-medical-resident-who-had-his-wife-peer-review-five-of-his-papers/
Oxford music professors deem sheet music 'colonialist,' say curriculum needs
to be 'decolonized' ---
https://www.foxnews.com/world/oxford-music-professors-music-white-supremacy
“Riddled with errors”: Study of cell phones and breast cancer retracted ---
https://retractionwatch.com/
Oakland to give a uniform
basic income (UBI) of $500 to select low-income households that are black
or Native American?
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/oakland-to-give-500-a-month-to-low-income-households-except-for-whites
Is this type of racial discrimination even legal? Keep in mind that whites are now a minority race in all of California, and especially in Oakland? Asian families and white families need not apply.
Many of the blacks in the USA are not decedents of slavery in the USA since so many blacks immigrated to the USA after the Civil War, including blacks arriving in the 21st Century. Apparently you don't have to be descendent from slavery to get this $500 monthly UBI.
How to Mislead With Statistics
Those hidden factors
affecting research outcomes
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/testing-todd.html
Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a many‐analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these decisions. Two published causal empirical results are replicated by seven replicators each. We find large differences in data preparation and analysis decisions, many of which would not likely be reported in a publication. No two replicators reported the same sample size. Statistical significance varied across replications, and for one of the studies the effect's sign varied as well. The standard deviation of estimates across replications was 3–4 times the mean reported standard error.
Jensen Comment
Accounting researchers rarely discover such problems because those researchers
rarely replicate the works of one another.
574 Shields Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
How to MIslead With Statistics
NBER: Misdemeanor
Prosecution ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28600
Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. So far there has been little empirical evidence to inform policy in this area. In this paper we report the first estimates of the causal effects of misdemeanor prosecution on defendants' subsequent criminal justice involvement. We leverage the as-if random assignment of nonviolent misdemeanor cases to Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs) who decide whether a case should move forward with prosecution in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. These ADAs vary in the average leniency of their prosecution decisions. We find that, for the marginal defendant, nonprosecution of a nonviolent misdemeanor offense leads to large reductions in the likelihood of a new criminal complaint over the next two years. These local average treatment effects are largest for first-time defendants, suggesting that averting initial entry into the criminal justice system has the greatest benefits. We also present evidence that a recent policy change in Suffolk County imposing a presumption of nonprosecution for a set of nonviolent misdemeanor offenses had similar beneficial effects: the likelihood of future criminal justice involvement fell, with no apparent increase in local crime rates.
...
We find that the marginal nonprosecuted misdemeanor defendant is 33 percentage points less likely to be issued a new criminal complaint within two years post-arraignment (58% less than the mean for complier" defendants who are prosecuted; p < 0.01). We find that nonprosecution reduces the likelihood of a new misdemeanor complaint by 24 percentage points (60%; p < 0.01), and reduces the likelihood of a new felony complaint by 8 percentage points (47%; not significant). Nonprosecution reduces the number of subsequent criminal complaints by 2.1 complaints (69%; p < .01); the number of subsequent misdemeanor complaints by 1.2 complaints (67%; p < .01), and the number of subsequent felony complaints by 0.7 complaints (75%; p < .05). We see significant reductions in subsequent criminal complaints for violent, disorderly conduct/theft, and motor vehicle offenses.
Jensen Comment
Firstly, if less than half are "less likely" to repeat the offenses what happens
to those that are "more likely" to repeat offenses?
Secondly, there is such a wide variety of misdemeanor crimes that lumping them together and looking at averages can be misleading. Examples of misdemeanors include prostitution, drug possession, non-violent mugging, vandalism, trespassing, public intoxication, public defecation, reckless driving, indecent exposure, peeking tommery, and shoplifting. Indeed not prosecuting some of these crimes might lower the odds of repeating the offense, but I find it hard to believe that not prosecuting for prostitution and shoplifting is going to lead to a lower likelihood of prostitution ane shoplifting.
Thirdly, not prosecuting some crimes leads to lowering the possibility of such crimes. For example, if shoplifting becomes too rampant big box stores (think Walmart and Target) may either close down or certainly not build new stores in the parts of a community where shoplifting is more likely. One time I shopped in a convenience store in downtown Baltimore where customers were not allowed to touch the merchandise until is was paid for. Clerks behind bulletproof glass retrieved the merchandise and collected the money before the merchandise was passed in drawers to customers. The effect of not prosecuting crimes thereby leads to higher prices of merchandise and/or increased costs of having to travel much further to shop in stores. More dramatically if non-violent mugging and panhandling becomes more likely due to non-prosecution tourists will avoid the high risk areas such that crime statistics go down for the wrong reasons. Wiill tourists flock to Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon since these cities no longer prosecute misdemeanors? The only people flocking to such places may be drug addicts (which is what happened in San Francisco).
Fourthly, and most importantly, there may be huge changes in the data being collected. For example, if misdemeanors are no longer prosecuted after January 1, 2022 it may well be that victims may no longer report crimes and/or police arrest far fewer criminals after January 1, 2022 because their arrests will not be prosecuted. Hence, there may be increases in these misdemeanors that are no longer getting into the crime database.
Lastly, the use of p-values in
statistical inference has fallen out of favor with the American Statistical
Association because they are too unreliable ---
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.
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Non-fungible Token --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
NFTs Are Shaking Up the Art
World—But They Could Change So Much More ---
https://time.com/5947720/nft-art/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc&utm_campaign=newsletter+brief+default+ac&utm_content=+++20210323+++body&et_rid=31883121
‘Super Courses’ Authors
discuss their new book on how courses reflect the future of teaching and
learning ---
Authors discuss what makes a 'super course' (insidehighered.com)
Jensen Comment
For good students eager to learn it's not clear that super courses sacrificing
some content for motivation components is such a great thing. What those
students often want most from those teachers is to distill complicated and vast
subject matter into its most essential components. That does not necessarily
entail spoon feeding. Great teachers have a way of making students learn a lot
on their own (think case method teaching). But they filter out the content that
students must learn. In some instances they may be teaching super courses
without knowing they meet many of the parameters of super courses.
Personality, Presence, Preparation, Passion
"The 4 Properties of Powerful Teachers," by Rob Jenkins, Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 16, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/The-4-Properties-of-Powerful/228483?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=f7a573e655c64862a148087230fab166&elq=9c0601c2effb449cb3594293542b4633&elqaid=8350&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2716
Jensen Comment
Viewing my own past over 22 years of college and 40 years of interacting with
faculty colleagues it seems impossible to put a fence arround the best
personality traits of great teachers. Nearly all of them in my estimation were
self confident but many were also humble about it. Many were extroverted, but
this is not a necessary condition. What is a mystery to me is how a few great
teachers were lousy faculty colleagues but were highly respected by their
students. I recall one who never took an interest in any of his colleagues and
remained aloof and distant even to members in his department. To us he almost
seemed autistic. But with students he was caring, confident, and highly
respected as an advisor and a teacher.
Most great teachers I knew were passionate about their discipline, but not all were what I would describe as passionate teachers. I mean think of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Based upon his record and his player's testimonials he's one of the greatest and most powerful football coaches of all time. But if you listen to him talk his presentations are better than prescription sleeping pills if you need help falling asleep. He's the perfect example of an introverted mumbling accountant low on testosterone rather than a NFL football coach.
But Belichick is arguably the most prepared coach in the history of the NFL.
In my viewpoint a powerful teacher does not necessarily equate to great teacher. The first ingredient of a great teacher is expertise at the level of course being taught. I grant you that teaching at the introductory level certainly requires less expertise and more power, although expertise helps when introductory students ask tough questions. Certainly introductory teachers should have sufficient expertise to admit they are not experts on some issues. At advanced levels expertise trumps almost every other ingredient of a great teacher. However masterful experts who are unprepared for class or learning tutorials often blow it and lose the respect of ttheir students.
Socioeconomic roots of
academic faculty ---
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6wjxc
Tenure-track faculty play a special role in society: they train future researchers, and they produce much of the scholarship that drives scientific, technological, and social innovation. However, the professoriate has never been demographically representative of the general population it serves. For example in the United States, Black and Hispanic scholars are underrepresented across the tenure-track, and while women's representation has increased over time, they remain a minority in many academic fields. Here we investigate the representativeness of faculty childhood socioeconomic status and whether it may implicitly limit e orts to diversify the professoriate in terms of race, gender, and geography. Using a survey of 7218 professors in PhD-granting departments in the United States across eight disciplines in STEM, social sciences, and the humanities, we find that the estimated median childhood household income among faculty is 23.7% higher than the general public, and aculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a PhD. Moreover, the proportion of faculty with PhD parents nearly doubles at more prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50years. Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible mainly to the socioeconomically privileged. This lack of socioeconomic diversity is likely to deeply shape the type of scholarship and scholars that faculty produce and train
Jensen Comment
One barrier in some ways is in some ways good news in my field (accounting).
There's a huge shortage of minorities in accounting firms. As a result top
minorities in these firms are often given relatively high salaries and other
incentives to stay in the firms or change firms relative to white counterparts
who are sometimes tempted to sidetrack into Ph.D. studies and faculty careers.
In other words, the competition is very keen to tempt a top minority candidate (think African Americans or native Americans) into accountancy Ph.D. programs. In my opinion this is probably happening in other disciplines like computer science and engineering. There are quite a few Asians in our accounting Ph.D. programs, but these are often quants imported from other nations.
Biden CANCELS $1 BILLION in
student loans ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17074
The Biden administration has announced that it will nationalize an estimated $1 billion in student debt without action by Congress or President Joe Biden by using a little-understood program called Borrower Defense to Repayment.
This price tag applies only to the claims already adjudicated, many of which were found to be entitled to partial relief. Those borrowers who previously received partial relief will now have the rest of their loans canceled, and they may receive refunds for any student loan payments they have already made.
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States With the Highest and
Lowest Property Taxes in 2021
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/03/16/the-state-with-the-highest-property-taxes/
Note that some states (think Texas) give property tax relief to older folks
no longer having children in schools
Most states are lenient with property taxes on farms, timberlands, and other
larger tracts of undeveloped land
Border states (think Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California) are getting hit
hard pressed to fund charity medicine under the new open borders policy of 2021
In San Antonio a goodly share of my property taxes went to the Bexar County
Hospital for charity medicine before I retired in New Hampshire where property
taxes do not include charity medicine
Not that I'm against the need for charity medicine (I increased by gifts to
hospitals in New Hampshire)
01 New Jersey (the state with the highest state taxes in almost every category)
02 Illinois (the state with almost the highest taxes in every category)
03 New Hampshire (if you don't have a state income tax or a state sales tax, funding must be obtained somewhere)
04 Vermont (another state with the almost highest taxes in every category)
05 Connecticut (another state with the almost highest taxes in every category)
06 Texas (no state income tax)
07 Nebraska (rated as the most expensive state for retirees who get husked along with the corn)
08 Wisconsin ((another state with the almost highest taxes in every category)
09 Ohio ((another state with high taxes in most categories)
10 Iowa (another state with the almost highest taxes in every category). . .
41 Delaware (pretty good deal when combined with no state income tax)
42 Nevada (a pretty good deal when combined with no state income tax)
43 Utah
44 South Carolina
45 West Virginia
46 Colorado
47 Wyoming (no state income tax on individuals or corporations)
48 Louisiana (has the highest sales tax rate in the USA plus an income tax)
49 Alabama (the fourth highest sales tax rate in the USA)
50 Hawaii (where the cost of living is highest among all 50 states)
Bitcoin --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
Atlanta-Based Bitcoin ATM
Provider Launches Over 100 New Machines Across 24 States in the US ---
https://news.bitcoin.com/atlanta-based-bitcoin-atm-provider-launches-over-100-new-machines-across-24-states-in-the-us/
China Now Processes More
Crude Oil Than Any Nation on Earth ---
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/?src=email
USA refineries are shrinking
Using Someone Else’s Netflix
Password Is Likely to Get Harder: Streaming service’s recent experiment to
tighten security puts freeloaders on notice ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/using-someone-elses-netflix-password-is-likely-to-get-harder-11616059801?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
California universities and
Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal ---
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/california-universities-and-elsevier-make-ink-big-open-access-deal
From the Scout Report on March 19, 2021
MDBOOK --- https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
mdBook is a program that creates "online book-like websites," from directories of Markdown files. It is particularly well-suited to creating online manuals and is used somewhat widely for that purpose in the Rust community. The mdBook user guide is an example of one such website. A number of plugins are available that extend mdBook with additional features, like rendering of LaTeX equation notation, checking links within a book for validity, and producing EPUB output. Detailed API documentation linked from the User Guide describes how users can write their own plugins in Rust. In the Format section of the User Guide, users will find details of the file structure that mdBook expects and information on how to customize the visual theme of the output. The Installation section of the mdBook site provides binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems
PETL SCIENCE --- https://petl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Petl is a Python library and companion command-line tool to support Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) workflows on tabular data. Petl can read and write several dozen formats including Excel, XML, JSON, Delimited text, HTML, and many others. Numerous transformations are supported, including transformations of individual values, splitting compound values from one cell into multiple cells, SQL-like joins across several tables, deduplication, and validation against a set of constraints. Petl also includes a number of utility functions to perform statistical analysis and interactive inspection of the data. In the ETL Pipelines section of the Introduction page, users can locate a brief illustration of a simple ETL workflow. As a Python package, Petl can be installed via pip. On many Linux and BSD systems, Petl will also be available via the system's package manager.
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Open Educational Resources Toolkit ---
https://guides.library.uoit.ca/OER-Toolkit
Video: Economics for Beginners ---
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Bob Jensen's threads on education links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Antiviral drug molnupiravir, still in clinical trials, would give doctors an
important new weapon against coronaviruses and future pandemics. This is how it
works. ---
Click Here
A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7 Gigapixel Panoramic
Photo of the Entire Milky Way ---
Click Here
PLANTS ARE COOL, TOO --- www.youtube.com/channel/UC2jD-ZIIgTfrk7DxzRQji_w/featured
Nextstrain (Public Health Data on Pathogen Evolution) --- https://nextstrain.org/
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
A Civil Rights Toolkit ---
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/learning-research/learning-lab/civil-rights-toolkit/
Video: Economics for Beginners ---
Click Here
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
A Civil Rights Toolkit ---
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/learning-research/learning-lab/civil-rights-toolkit/
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Law
Math Tutorials
I was x years old in the year x-squared.
Augustus DeMorgan
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/De_Morgan/
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite
'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum ---
Augustus DeMorgan
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download
480,000 Works of Art ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/the-louvres-entire-collection-goes-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from
World-Class Museums ---
Click Here
Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information ---
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information
A Civil Rights Toolkit ---
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/learning-research/learning-lab/civil-rights-toolkit/
Women in Film and Art
FEMINIST ART COALITION ---
https://feministartcoalition.org/PIONEERS: 500 YEARS OF WOMEN IN BRITISH ART ---
https://philipmould.com/exhibitions/23-pioneers-500-years-of-women-in-british-art/DAILYART MAGAZINE: WOMEN'S ART ---
www.dailyartmagazine.com/category/artist/women-artistsWHAT ARTISTS LISTEN TO ---
https://www.whatartistslistento.com/WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION ---
www.wift-at.com/homeWOMEN'N ART ---
|https://womennart.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
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
Hear J.S. Bach’s Music Performed on the Lautenwerck, Bach’s Favorite Lost
Baroque Instrument ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/hear-j-s-bachs-music-performed-on-the-lautenwerck-bachs-favorite-lost-baroque-instrument.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Music
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Edubirdie Writing Resources ---
https://edubirdie.com/blog/writing-resources
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
CDC Blogs --- http://blogs.cdc.gov/
Shots: NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
March 17, 2021
Moderna Launches Clinical Trials on Young Children
Can Vaccination and Infection Rates Equal COVID Herd Immunity?
Strawberries, Spinach, Kale Top ‘Dirty Dozen’ List Again
Scientists Create Human 'Pre-Embryo' for Research
U.S. COVID Infections 'More Widespread' Than Thought?
Trump Urges Americans to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Some With Long-Haul COVID See Relief After Vaccination
March 18, 2021
Fish Oil, Vitamin D Won't Prevent A-Fib: Study
Kids' ER Visits for Swallowed Magnets Soars
COVID Reinfections Rare, but Riskiest After 65
88% of Americans Vaccinated Get Second Dose
Moderna Launches Clinical Trials on Young Children
Can Vaccination and Infection Rates Equal COVID Herd Immunity?
World's First Face Transplant in a Black Patient a Success
March 19, 2021
The Simpsons Didn't Predict COVID (and Other Myths Dispelled)
COVID Patients Face Higher Risk for Stroke
Child Dies in Treadmill Accident, Peloton Says
Vaccines Needed to Stop COVID's Spread
Lockdowns Put Some With Eating Disorders in Crisis
European Union Proposes COVID-19 Travel Certificate
Caution Urged as COVID Cases Rise in 15 States
March 20, 2021
Child Dies in Treadmill Accident, Peloton Says
CDC Relaxes School COVID-19 Guidelines
Vaccines Needed to Stop COVID's Spread
Lockdowns Put Some With Eating Disorders in Crisis
European Union Proposes COVID-19 Travel Certificate
March 23, 2021
Paving the Way for Diversity in Clinical Trials
U.S. Regulators Question AstraZeneca Vaccine Data
Study: Caffeine Before Exercise Helps You Burn Fat
Study: In U.S., Lockdowns Added 2 Pounds per Month
Neurologic Symptoms Frequent in COVID Long-Haulers
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Rose in 2020, Even Though Driving Declined
Lockdowns Gave Boost to Type 1 Diabetes Control in Kids
March 26, 2021
Peloton Spurs High-Tech, High-Dollar Home Fitness Trend
Even a Little Coffee in Pregnancy May Impact Newborn's Weight
Senate Confirms First Openly Transgender U.S. Official
Top JAMA Editor Out Amid Podcast Investigation
Gen X, Millennials in Worse Health Than Prior Generations
‘Disinformation Dozen’ Driving Anti-Vaccine Content
March 28, 2020
Even 'Healthy' Ultraprocessed Foods Tied to Heart Risk
Fauci: Study Will Tell if COVID Vaccine Stops Spread
Cuomo Family Got Rushed COVID-19 Tests, Reports Say
Saliva Test a Game Changer for Identifying Concussion?
Your Mask Might Also Shield You From Allergies
A Stressed Brain Linked to 'Broken Heart' Syndrome
Zombie Genes Spur Brain Cells to Grow After Death
March 31, 2021
Pfizer: Clinical Trials Show Vaccine 100% Effective in Kids 12-15
Diet High in Processed Meats Could Shorten Your Life
Kaiser Foundation Outlines COVID Vaccination Rates
World Leaders Call for International Pandemic Treaty
Canada Pauses AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine for Under 55
Where Do COVID Vaccines Stand Against the Variants?
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy May Prove Deadly for Many
Brain Scraper: Why Do Some COVID Tests Hurt So Much?
Antiviral drug molnupiravir, still in clinical trials, would give doctors
an important new weapon against coronaviruses and future pandemics. This is how
it works. ---
Click Here
Preschoolers with too much screen time less likely to make friends,
develop emotional and behavioral issues ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/preschoolers-screen-time-issues/
Cost-effective, easily manufactured ventilators for COVID-19 patients ---
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-cost-effective-easily-ventilators-covid-patients.html
Humor for March 2020
Not So Humorous from Auntie Bev
Barely the day started and... it's already six in the evening.
Barely arrived on Monday and it's already Friday.
... and the month is already over.
... and the year is almost over.
... and already 40, 50 or 60 years of our lives have passed.
... and we realize that we lost our parents, friends.
... and we realize it's too late to go back...
So... Let's try, despite everything, to enjoy the remaining time...
Let's keep looking for activities that we like...
Let's put some color in our grey...
Let's smile at the little things in life that put balm in our hearts.
And despite everything, we must continue to enjoy with serenity this time we have left. Let's try to eliminate the afters...
I'm doing it after...
I'll say after...
I'll think about it after...
We leave everything for later like ′′ after ′′ is ours.
Because what we don't understand is that:
Afterwards, the coffee gets cold...
Afterwards, priorities change...
Afterwards, the charm is broken...
Afterwards, health passes...
Afterwards, the kids grow up...
Afterwards parents get old...
Afterwards, promises are forgotten...
Afterwards, the day becomes the night...
Afterwards life ends...
And then it's often too late....
So... Let's leave nothing for later..
Because still waiting see you later, we can lose the best moments,
the best experiences,
best friends,
the best family...
The day is today... The moment is now...
We are no longer at the age where we can afford to postpone what needs to be done right away.
So let's see if you have time to read this message.
Or maybe you'll leave it for... ′′ later "...
Humor March 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q1.htm#Humor0321.htm
Humor February 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q1.htm#Humor0221.htm
Humor January 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q1.htm#Humor0121.htm
Humor December 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q4.htm#Humor1220.htm
Humor November 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q4.htm#Humor1120.htm
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Humor August 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0820.htm
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Humor January 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q1.htm#Humor0120.htm
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Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
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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
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
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