Comments on: Thirty Three Things (v. 53)

By: pentamom

pentamom — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:25:09 +0000

“No Romance Without Finance” is actually the correct title for Sense and Sensibility. The issues in Pride and Prejudice don’t have all that much to do with money, except as money tends to travel alongside social class. In Sense and Sensibility, money and the lack thereof drive the story much more.

By: jocon307

jocon307 — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:16:31 +0000

Mr. Nickol, how do you think I feel, only 9% for trefoils!

Nothing I like is popular, at all, ever.

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World’s Strangest | At the Age of 61, Man Returns to College Football — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:18:04 +0000

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By: Rich Horton

Rich Horton — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:59:54 +0000

I can already tell from looking at the abstract that the Homicide/Prohibition paper is wrong. Its another one of thse cases where researchers wont admit we just dont have the data, and we just dont have the data. Only a handful of states (6 or 7) were collecting homicide date in the early part of the century. (It wasn’t until AFTER prohibition ended that all the states began to keep that data.)

So, this researcher has a choice, either A) Make claims based upon a handful of states w/ data – despite the fact nearly all of the states that kept the data were in the northeast and thus hardly representative, or B) Make claims based upon more state data (as more states began to collect the data during the 20′s), but which covers such a small period of time that there is no way to disentangle causation.

Either way they are pretty much screwed.

By: David Nickol

David Nickol — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:24:44 +0000

Only 19% for Samoas? I am outraged!