Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Secularization in America, part one.

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In the last year or so I have written several articles about trends in religion among college students: Are religious colleges getting mo...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

Are religious colleges getting more religious?

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In response to my article about the increasing numbers of students entering college with no religious affiliation, a reader wrote: A pote...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Fog warning system: part three

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Background :  I am trying to evaluate the effect on traffic safety of a fog warning system deployed in California in November 1996.  The sy...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Fog warning system: part two

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Background :  I am trying to evaluate the effect on traffic safety of a fog warning system deployed in California in November 1996.  The sys...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Fog warning system: life saver or road hazard?

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I've started a new project, working with a collaborator at another university, to evaluate the impact of a fog warning system deployed o...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

The passive voice is a hoax!

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Excessive use of the passive voice in science writing is a self-perpetuated, mutually-perpetrated hoax. Most style guides recommend the acti...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The sun will probably come out tomorrow

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I am always looking for good examples of Bayesian analysis, so I was interested in this paragraph from The Economist ( September 2000 ): ...
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