LaTeX for people who think they don’t need it

Introduction

Statistics 101: The MAGIC criteria

About 100 years ago, Ronald Fisher introduced statistical hypothesis testing. Fisher knew what he…

Book review: Shogun by James Clavell

If you’re in my generation (I am 59 years old) or older you may have read Shogun a long time…

Statistics 101: Polls and surveys

In previous diaries we’ve looked at some descriptive statistics, and some ways to evaluate…

In defense of standardized tests

Much of the hatred of standardized tests is based on misconceptions of what standardized testing is…

Book Review: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason is Paine’s attempt to do for religion what he had done for…

Senate races 2020: North Carolina update on April 16

Things not to say to LD people (or their parents)

Senate races 2020: New Hampshire, update April 7

Three conceits of science fiction

I love written science fiction and have been reading it for 50 years. I think there are three basic…