Basic Math For Academics Part IV

12 Responses to Basic Math For Academics Part IV

1. gator69 says:

   February 11, 2015 at 2:46 am

   Being coach, referee, cheerleader, scorekeeper, publicist and both teams – is not acceptable in any environment.

   Nor is being Tonya Harding, Jeff Gillooly, Shawn Eckhardt, or Shane Stant.

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   • Colorado Wellington says:

     February 11, 2015 at 8:53 am

     Little League.

     “The world’s most popular game is also its most corrupt.”

     On the morning of Feb. 20, 2011, a man from Singapore walked into the central police station of Rovaniemi, Finland, a town that sits along the Arctic Circle. The man told officers that another Singaporean, Wilson Raj Perumal, was in Rovaniemi on a false passport. He offered no other information before leaving the station abruptly.

     Though puzzled by the seemingly random tip, Rovaniemi police put Perumal under surveillance. Three days later, they followed him to a French restaurant near the soccer stadium, where the local club, Rovaniemen Palloseura, had just completed a 1-1 draw. Officers watched as Perumal sat down with three Palloseura players. They saw him scold the players, who cowered in fear. The next day, based on the false passport, the Finnish police detained Perumal. They phoned officials at the Finland Football Federation, who in turn contacted FIFA, soccer’s international governing body.

     One week later, Chris Eaton, FIFA’s head of security, arrived in Rovaniemi. He knew exactly who Perumal was. Eaton informed Finnish investigators that they had just caught the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches, an elusive figure whom Eaton had been chasing for the past six months.

     Perumal had rigged hundreds of games across five continents, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent gambling winnings for Asian and European syndicates. He was finally in custody. And he had been turned in by one of his own.

     http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7927946/soccer-wilson-raj-perumal-world-most-prolific-criminal-match-fixer-espn-magazine

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2. Eric Barnes says:

   February 11, 2015 at 2:54 am

   And the current crowd of luke warmer glee club members are no better than the climate scientists.

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3. B says:

   February 11, 2015 at 5:03 am

   Outsiders are very dangerous. Not only do they see things differently, they have no career to protect or advance. Science protects itself by destroying the careers of people who get out of line and challenge the social and political order of a particular discipline. By using degrees and monolithic training few will even see things differently in the first place. When challenged by outsiders authority will be invoked. An engineer who has to be able to handle data properly to make a successful design will not be welcome in the climate science world.

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   • Gail Combs says:

     February 11, 2015 at 1:03 pm

     +1

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4. Robertv says:

   February 11, 2015 at 8:27 am

   Being coach, referee, cheerleader, scorekeeper, publicist and both teams – is not acceptable in any environment.

   Only in Government.

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   • Jason Calley says:

     February 11, 2015 at 12:44 pm

     Many people in government are addicted to power. They MUST have control over everything, and everyone. It is irrational, but they suffer from an irrational desire. Wealth? Security? Admiration? Some of them have all those things — but that is not enough. Power, control, authority — those are what they seek.

     Jeezo Pete… I think I would rather have a drug addiction than to have THAT particular monkey riding my back. There is no methadone for those people.

     Of course the worst are those who are not only power addicts, but psychopaths as well.

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   • Gail Combs says:

     February 11, 2015 at 1:04 pm

     And in Academia.

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5. markstoval says:

   February 11, 2015 at 9:23 am

   “Climate scientists have no training in signal processing, and have absolutely no business being in control of the temperature record.”

   They also have little to no training in statistical methods and thus should not be engaged in an activity that is mainly statistics.

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   • Gail Combs says:

     February 11, 2015 at 1:06 pm

     Now we have Gavin who is a Mathematician and therefore twice as dangerous as Hansen

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6. Scottish Sceptic says:

   February 11, 2015 at 10:02 am

   “Climate scientists have no training in signal processing, and have absolutely no business being in control of the temperature record.”

   I have reached very much the same conclusion. I look at the ice-age cycle and because I’ve worked with signals all my life, I see so much meaning in the signals such as the fact that inter-glacials must have moderate to strong negative feedbacks against further warming.

   And if anyone is interested I’m running a series on http://scottishsceptic.co.uk.

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7. dfikarwp says:

   February 11, 2015 at 5:12 pm

   “They also have little to no training in statistical methods and thus should not be engaged in an activity that is mainly statistics.”

   Some may be trainable though. I understand that Phil Jones is finally learning how to do an Excel spreadsheet.

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