The Professor’s Notes

I recently received an email, containing an article entitled Less Money, More Pain — The Bonfire of Capital By Mike Whitney. The comment sent with the article was “This tells me that 2008 will be a very bad year for everyone.”  Wow.  Must be a compelling article, well researched, and written by [...]

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Over at the blog, Confessions of a Community College Dean, a commenter wrote that
Academics of all people should remember that the plural of anecdote is not data.
I find this to be a humorous, and in some way, interesting quote. I also find myself “engaging” with the quote in ways [...]

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Occasional pieces in AR — Introduction
I was sent a link to this page by one of my students currently conducting research. I have many on-going discussions about qualitative vs quantitative research, and my student thought this discussion was something in which I might have an interest. Obviously–I do!
First, let me say, I find [...]

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BTS - National Transportation Statistics 2004
I am sure many of you have asked yourselves “how can I get my hands on the actual data, rather than rely on the new reporters to give me their (often incorrect) interpretation?”
This link is one of the answers. On this link, you not only have the National Transportation [...]

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Speeders’ 5-10 mph ‘free pass’ costs lives, report says - Yahoo! News
Have you ever read a news story that just seemed, well, odd? This, to me, is one of those stories.
Perhaps I have been tainted by a book I recently read and enjoyed, titled “Freakonomics.” In that book, an economist slices data in [...]

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