Monthly Archives: November 2019

Lawyers

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Lawyers do not understand statistics or error bars.

For example, if you ask a family lawyer ‘how long after separation are the assets counted for divvying up?’, they’ll tell you 12 months.

In fact the mean number is 12 months, but the distribution spreads from 0 months (when both parties are reasonable and rational) to 5 years (when one party is poor, irrational and angry).

The same is true for all lawyer statement; no error bars.

Feminism

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Nic doesn’t think that feminists understand statistics.

For example, if a study shows that women are generally paid less as compared to men doing the same job, some women get outraged.What they do is assume that they are under-paid as well.

It is the reverse problem to sample size meaningfulness. Most of the worry in statistics is if a small sample size is representative of the complete sample set, as it relates to measurement efficiency.

The feminism problem revolves around calculating the error bars required when drawing a meaningful conclusion for a small sample set (say one individual) based on the properties of the full sample set (say, all women in the country).

The truth is, all self-interested parties ignore statistics, error bars, and all other facts when it’s in their interests to do so.

Climate action

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Lola is all hot under the collar.

Thinks we should do something.

Bout the climate that is.

Cause we’re all going to die.

Action is needed.

It’s the government, they have to do something.

Now. Before it’s too late.

I say….

Just say they pass a law that bans cars, air conditioners, electricity after dark, all packaging, diesel, TV’s over 12 inches, washing machines, dryers, etc.

Lola doesn’t think that makes sense. It sounds a bit drastic.
She wants to moan about climate change, fit in to the progressive clique, but certainly not in any way diminish her life utility.

I say the good news is;

1. We only account for about 1% of global emissions so any action we take won’t be noticed. It’s in the noise.

2. Any government that took meaningful action would be out on their arse within 10 minutes, pushed by the people and their cunty MPs.

So moan all you want, that’s all you will get. A moany echo chamber.

Leaders

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Yes another person bemoaning the lack of leadership amongst our politicians…

Their specific description job says they represent us. They’re elected to represent their electorate in whatever house of disrepute they sit in.

Leadership is the diametric opposite of representation, in politics.

In fact, any politician that has ever got the ego puffing and decided to show some leadership has found out pretty quickly what a bad idea that is (at the nearest election).

Leadership is a pipedream of the progressives, in their eternal dream of leading the masses down whatever rabbit hole that stirs their juices.

Conservatives

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Conservatives have an addiction to heuristics. The upside is that it’s very efficient, if lazy.

Accompanying this addiction is a disbelief in data that invalidates or devalues said heuristics. This in itself is a conservative’s heuristic.

The only downside for the conservatives is that once you understand this, you’ll find it very easy to manipulate the conservatives. Many do.

Academia

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Data from the internet..
  1. 90 percent of academic articles published are not even cited once.
  2. Of those articles that are cited, only 20 percent have actually been read by the citing authors.
  3. Over half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
  4. A peer-reviewed journal article is read completely by no more than 10 people, on average

Me and Nic published an article on ResearchGate last month. It’s had 175 downloads and the document may have been circulated by email as well, but god knows how many people will actually read it.

Oddly, because it’s not peer reviewed, it will not add to any metrics like the H-Index if if it is cited. But the articles that cite it will if they are peer reviewed add to their author’s metrics.

It’s a bit odd.

Secondary boycott

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The Competition and Consumer Act already contains civil penalties for secondary boycotts, which target one business in order to prevent provision of goods or services to another, including if they cause “substantial loss or damage” or substantially lessen competition.A secondary boycott is an attempt to influence the actions of one business by exerting pressure on another business. For example, assume that a group has a complaint against the Acme Company. Assume further that the Widget Company is the major supplier to the Acme Company. If the complaining group informs the Widget Company that it will persuade the public to stop doing business with the company unless it stops doing business with Acme Company, such a boycott of the Widget Company would be a secondary boycott. The intended effect of such a boycott would be to influence the actions of Acme Company by organizing against its major supplier.

Liberty

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So it is claimed that the right to free speech is being abused by some (the progressives) to prevent free speech in others.

The proposed remedy is to outlaw free speech.

It’s just like reading “the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.

Jung and Freud

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Jung and Freud. Fuckers. Cunts. Down with Hitler for the damage they’ve caused.

They’ve convinced a whole generation or two that they can blame their parents for all that’s ill.

The trick is to take full responsibility for your own life. Any other approach simply didn’t work.

Absolute truth.