... "Numbers Rule" is at least one recent book that, I believe, pointed out this fact. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0691139946 -- Dale Sheldon-Hess ...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Jan 25, 2013 6:22 pm
... --Clinton in responding to this or some other similar question orally claimed there were 1.4 million cables per year (which meant she could not possibly...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Jan 25, 2013 6:24 pm
... --your remark is true if it is phrased as an absolute number rather than a percentage. But I suspect it is phased as the latter since the number of US...
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Michael Ellis
michaelf.ellis
Jan 25, 2013 6:45 pm
According to a recent article there are currently 294 US embassies and consulates. It seems nonsensical to suppose they generate only 20 cables per day total....
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Jan 27, 2013 5:04 am
[Washington Post 26 January 2013]: "Stuxnet" has now been clearly identified as a joint USA-Israeli secret cyberwar project against Iran, codenamed "olympic...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Jan 28, 2013 12:34 am
I've said it before. The US congress has not implemented this simple reform in over 200 years, so I can't hold out much hope for it. But anyway, a recent...
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Michael Ellis
michaelf.ellis
Jan 28, 2013 1:00 am
Good idea, Warren, but I suspect we'd simply find every line attributed to authors in districts where the authorship would be a plus or at least not harmful....
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Jan 30, 2013 5:28 pm
... --well, that still would be better than current situation -- there would be at least one legislator willing to take responsibility for each line of the...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 1, 2013 3:49 am
(True story, but abstracted.) There were three candidate scientific hypotheses named B, F, and H. It was possible to perform a pairwise comparison experiment...
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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
abdlomax
Feb 2, 2013 2:01 am
... None. The hypotheses are all lousy. The predictions are unreliable. Is the result really binary? I.e., two-valued only, say B or H, or does a hypothesis,...
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Jan Kok
jankok5
Feb 2, 2013 3:46 am
So what was this experiment about?...
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Jameson Quinn
homunq
Feb 2, 2013 3:51 am
We aren't talking about the EPR paradox, are we? Because that would be cheating; the "hypotheses" would be hidden variable theories and the cyclical result...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 3, 2013 7:20 pm
SAM WANG: The Great Gerrymander of 2012, 2 February 2013 New York Times. [Sam Wang is an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 3, 2013 7:53 pm
... --well, you'll be sorry you asked, but crystallography & quantum chemistry. The 3 candidate theories yield different predictions of crystal structure under...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 3, 2013 8:03 pm
... -yes. Actually, the binary "wins" actually do come with numbers saying "how big a win" it was. ... --probably. ... -well, it is binary, i.e. one does not...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 4, 2013 1:19 am
Here is another quote from that Republican State Leadership Comm. report boasting of their success. QUOTE In the 70 congressional districts that were labeled...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 4, 2013 1:43 am
Wang's assessment found that two "gerrymandered/biased in favor of Democrats" were Arizona (severely) and Texas (moderately). Kind of strange considering that...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 4, 2013 1:54 am
Another slight issue was that the NY Times Graphics Genius decided Indiana was north of Illinois....
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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
abdlomax
Feb 4, 2013 3:43 am
... Yeah, I got that. However, it seems, you are attempting to judge an *overall theory*, yet the theory cannot predict the outcome in all specific...
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jimrtex4192
Feb 5, 2013 9:02 pm
... The districts used in 2012 were drawn by a federal court. This probably netted the Democrats two seats. In addition, Republican districts have higher...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 7, 2013 3:37 am
[Looks like their speaker had some ethics. I suspect he is going to pay heavily for it.] ... Va. House speaker derails GOP Senate redistricting plan by Laura...
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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
abdlomax
Feb 7, 2013 7:38 pm
... Not in the end. He'll be able to sleep, and we all sleep eventually. Even short of that, rulings issued on narrow partisan arguments eventually come back...
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jimrtex4192
Feb 8, 2013 3:49 am
... How could the senate redistricting plan have handed the GOP control of the senate for decades?...
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jimrtex4192
Feb 8, 2013 4:26 am
... It was not unrelated. The bill passed by the house started out with a proposal to redistrict a handful of house districts. By the time it got out of the...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 8, 2013 6:34 am
... --you gerrymander. That assures your side wins majority control. Next redistricting, thanks to those wins, you have control and gerrymander again. Hence...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 8, 2013 6:38 am
... --well, it was a hell of a lot more germane than plenty of things that happen in Washington, such as the "fiscal cliff" bill that just happened to have a...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 12, 2013 12:11 am
Price for a New Hip? Many Hospitals Are Stumped By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL NEW YORK TIMES 11 Feb 2013 Jaime Rosenthal, a senior at Washington University in St....
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 13, 2013 9:49 pm
Israel, an apartheid non-democracy posing as a democracy, has among its many non-democratic features, a government-censored press. It can be difficult for...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 19, 2013 5:18 am
In an interesting juxtaposition, the NEW YORK TIMES 17 Feb 2013 had "Voting Rights Act Is Challenged as Cure the South Has Outgrown" about the Supreme Court's...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Feb 19, 2013 6:52 pm
See my analysis of Nate Silver's analysis of the 2011 OSCAR awards: This would have been a historic first ever award to an animated film as "best picture." ...
