Nuclear power is safe. Or it can be. If the organization running the plant has a sufficiently long planning horizon, they will make wise decisions and not have a CEO who hides in his office while the plants melt down. So, the proposed rule is: only groups whose planning horizon is 100 years or more [...]
Archives for March 2011
Praise and scorn – regressing to the mean
Because people to regress to the mean, scolding always seems to work, and praise never seems to work. But this is a statistical illusion brought on by bosses with no knowledge of math and a surplus of hubris. I was reminded of this phenomenon when I read a blog post by FemaleScienceProfessor who wrote about [...]
Forty five
I am 45 times faster at programming than my students. I just verified this again, in two different (Jr and Sr) classes with two different populations. 45 seems like a huge number in this context. It means that every 60 seconds of me programming corresponds to 45 minutes of their programming. How can I speed [...]
