Peter

Trump responds to Washington plane crash with racist, ableist diatribe The president used the tragedy, which killed 67, to deliver a bigoted and self-promoting tirade about DEI.

Great article from Julia Metraux of Mother Jones

#Disability

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"Wennes einen Gott gibt muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten."
(if there is a God, he will have to beg my forgiveness.’)

This was found written on a wall at Mauthausen Concentration camp.

Any billionaires who send themselves into space should stay there.

My latest post on Meidum is titled "Monsters under the Bed"

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"Fairy tales do not teach children that dragons are real. Children already know that dragons are real. Fairy tales teach children that dragons can be killed." G K Chesterton

Conservatives hate Bishop Budde because she was sounding like Jesus. They can't stand that.

Maybe I'm confused as to what you are looking for.

In general, multievel models are quite good for longitudinal data. One good (if somewhat dated) book is by Hedeker and Gibbons. Longitudinal Data Analysis.

Verbeke and Mollenberghs wrote two good books on this topic.

I know that, a while back, "learning disability" meant different things in UK and US English; with the def. in UK being more like what the US calls "intellectual disability" or similar.

Is that still true?

The interaction of time and an IV will show whether the time effect is different at different levels of the IV. That is frequently what you want with this sort of data, but it is not what your first sentence here asks for.

The only mandate Trump has is with Elon.

The GOP is the break the law and cause disorder party.

Are you talking to me? 'Cause I'm pretty strange!

Sounds like Dick Durbin had a great meeting today with Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel, too.

“Kash Patel has neither the experience, the temperament, nor the judgment to lead the FBI."

Sounds like Chuck Schumer had a great meeting today with Trump's OMB pick, Russell Vought:
 
“I can think of very few people that would have a more direct and debilitating impact on the lives of American families than Russell Vought."

"If you're at work, do it now and see what happens..."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social has a challenge for anyone that doesn't think Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at the inauguration.

I was in 2 WTC when the plane hit.

This is worse.

Then the enemy was a group of hostile, foreign terrorists. Now, the enemy is domestic, and was elected by a plurality of voters.

If people could just "decide* this, then a lot of psychologists would be out of work

Not just math conferences!

It's going to be very hard to come up a way to measure usefulness

"Mathematics is the only subject in which we never know what we are talking about, or whether what we are saying is true." Bertrand Russell

Your thoughts?

#MathSky

"God created the integers, all the rest is the work of man" Leopold Kronecker is one extreme on a continuum. But I am on the other end. We discover it. But which bits we discover depend on many factors, and this dependence can make it seem like we invent it.

I will NOT be watching the inauguration of Felonious Trump.

He loves attention. Deny it to him.

That's true. And, at his citizenship hearings, one of his friends told him to shut up about that. Which friend? Albert Einstein.

Einstein also once said that he only went to work for "the pleasure of walking home with Godel."

Did you try Google Scholar? I'm amazed by how many people don't know about this site.

Splines are very useful, but medical decisions are rarely based on a single criterion (and it ought to be even rarer). At a minimum, the patient's age is going to be a consideration in many many cases. And their sex (this gets ignored a lot).

Definitions of 2E The Wikipedia definition

My latest Substack is about Definitions of 2E

#2E #Disability #TwiceExceptional

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Because averaging ordinal variables is very useful and often reasonable.

e.g A 5 point a Likert scale is usually numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This makes some sense.

Validity, here, is not a "yes/no" thing, but a continuum.

This is common in data analysis. See Statistics as Principled Argument.

What happened to all those Nigerian princes?

Or beer!

Sen Lankford (R-OK) said "America is not going to invade another country. That's not who we are."

We've invaded at least 33 countries in our history.

Not to mention, of course, that we stole the entire country we live in from people who were here already.