Headline in current Time Magazine – HEALTH: BOTTOMS UP. NEW STUDY FINDS THAT HEAVY DRINKERS OUTLIVE TEETOTALERS AND MODERATE DRINKERS LIVE ONGEST OF ALL. First, Time published a retraction (apparently online only) that the study does not include any teetotalers (excluded), but that “abstainers” refers to people who said they were no longer drinking (20 years ago). Next, when they control for a number of co-variates, the statistical significance is greatly reduced. Makes you wonder what if they had identified more co-variates. (more…)
September 12, 2010
September 9, 2010
Appeasement Reconsidered: Investigating the Mythology of the 1930s
Appeasement Reconsidered: Investigating the Mythology of the 1930s by Jeffrey Record, Ph.D., Monograph published by the Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army College. The author is on the faculty of the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub622.pdf
September 8, 2010
Mass Bay Colony, Quakers, Witches, Harvard…and how Fran’s relatives were directly involved.
Fran’s great-grandfather (if you go back an additional eleven generations) was Governor Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. I sometimes joke about Fran’s family hanging Quakers and witches, so I felt it was time to get some of this straight. Turns out that there is something to these stories, but not as written above. (more…)