tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8088784627985012382..comments2024-03-28T08:51:18.908-04:00Comments on the daily howler: ALL ROADS LEAD TO BIAS: Dowd does it again!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88533618140037092912014-06-19T07:04:43.905-04:002014-06-19T07:04:43.905-04:00Thank you fоr every other information ωebsitе.Thе ...Thank you fоr every other information ωebsitе.Thе place else may just I get that tуpе of іnformation .boοkmагkеd!!, Ι reаlly like уour blog<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.igel.com/uk/products/igel-zero-clients.html" rel="nofollow">Zero Clients</a> & <a href="https://www.igel.com/uk/" rel="nofollow">Windows Thin Client</a> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04820603361879599050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23350777777832147492014-05-16T05:39:21.861-04:002014-05-16T05:39:21.861-04:00Thank you all for you excellent service and profes...Thank you all for you excellent service and professionalism for best decoration.<br /><br /><a href="http://praguediamonds.com/" rel="nofollow">Best escort agency Prague</a> & <a href="http://praguediamonds.com/reviews.php" rel="nofollow">Teen Escorts in Prague</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17774686595456267096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86328043451918543732014-02-04T08:58:09.603-05:002014-02-04T08:58:09.603-05:00Because I've been reading this blog since 1998...Because I've been reading this blog since 1998, and I just can't get enough of him calling Maureen Dowd a lunatic. Like the great Boxcar Willie, Somerby keeps signing his biggest hit.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90068766613054884532014-02-04T02:59:56.181-05:002014-02-04T02:59:56.181-05:00All right students on the sprawling TDH campus.
T...All right students on the sprawling TDH campus.<br /><br />Time for a quiz.<br /><br />Compare and contrast this post about Maureen Dowd to the last post Professor Somerby did about Maureen Dowd. It was posted January 15, 2014.<br /><br />Any students posting a video of Bill Clinton humming Boxcar Willie tunes or singing Devil With The Blue Dress will be forced to wear Bill Bradley's old shoes and bowl with Barack Obamy down in Alabammy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50639440352041459242014-02-04T02:52:12.957-05:002014-02-04T02:52:12.957-05:00I understand it is very hard to train a psychologi...I understand it is very hard to train a psychologist. It is even harder to train a baboon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-75088409939744368822014-02-03T21:32:34.308-05:002014-02-03T21:32:34.308-05:00anon 6:07
I actually spend about zero time readin...anon 6:07<br /><br />I actually spend about zero time reading, dissecting or worrying about Maureen Dowd. I do think it is sad that she is where she is. As long as she keeps churning her stuff out, I think it deserves what THD dishes out, though, unfortunately, it bores you so much.<br /><br />Out of curiosity, what do you, who has managed to avoid being brainwashed by TDH (as is the unfortunate case for a fan club member like me), read and dissect and worry about (other than the TDH)?AC/MAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87052285806591790442014-02-03T21:12:11.175-05:002014-02-03T21:12:11.175-05:00Do you think statistical courses at the grad level...Do you think statistical courses at the grad level just teach you to use software? Since you know nothing about how psychologists (not clinicians) are trained, please stop maligning them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-35676747672287210022014-02-03T19:23:28.845-05:002014-02-03T19:23:28.845-05:00AnonymousFebruary 3, 2014 at 3:36 PM -- Maybe I...AnonymousFebruary 3, 2014 at 3:36 PM -- Maybe I'm a snob or maybe I'm sticking up for my Ph.D. Bio-statistician wife. However, it's one thing to run a sophisticated statistical analysis program; it's another thing to be sure one is interpreting it properly. Statistics looks relatively easy, but there are hidden pitfalls. IMHO if someone like my wife is doing the statistical analysis, there's a better chance of avoiding some subtle error.<br /><br />AnonymousFebruary 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM -- I don't know whether or not most peer review committees include a statistician. That may be the case for medical research, but I doubt if it's the case for, say psychology or climate papers. Even when there is a statistician on the Review Committee, I don't know how much detail the statistician checks.<br /><br />Yes, replication should be a key tenet of the scientific method. That's why it's shocking that less than half of medical papers could be replicated. David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65804572604311002012014-02-03T18:07:08.614-05:002014-02-03T18:07:08.614-05:00Speaking only of myself, I don't spend nearly ...Speaking only of myself, I don't spend nearly as much time reading, dissecting, and worrying about Maureen Dowd as does Bob and his fan club.<br /><br />But one would wonder how the Fan Club hasn't gotten this message by now, so it must be repeated for them, since they are the only ones who think it's important.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-49544733247262987752014-02-03T17:27:45.076-05:002014-02-03T17:27:45.076-05:00KZ - you didn't answer the question - do you t...KZ - you didn't answer the question - do you think Dowd's column was fine, mediocre, stupid or something other? - aside from TDH's excursion into analogizing faulty scientific research being slanted by preconceptions to the tendency of pundits like dowd to constantly rely on (in my view idiotic) scripts. My take (at the risk of being characterized as a "Bob fan" who slavishly accepts everything he says as gospel, and who does the same thing TDH criticizes in others, i.e. interpreting what TDH says without hard evidence) Ithought the point of his post was to make the analogy between pundits and these slanted reearch studies. Not about baboons.AC/MAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79547447979287076042014-02-03T15:40:41.719-05:002014-02-03T15:40:41.719-05:00A preoccupation with poo is a symptom of mental il...A preoccupation with poo is a symptom of mental illness or brain injury.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34338016290996304072014-02-03T15:39:06.684-05:002014-02-03T15:39:06.684-05:00One of the doctoral psychology graduates in my coh...One of the doctoral psychology graduates in my cohort became an actuary when he couldn't get a tenure track job as a psychologist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1972018320968988402014-02-03T15:38:41.667-05:002014-02-03T15:38:41.667-05:00Good question, Anoymous 2:26. Better question, wh...Good question, Anoymous 2:26. Better question, what happened to the Cal in David In? Did he move?<br />Does he really have an H in his O? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90483553503960456062014-02-03T15:36:09.439-05:002014-02-03T15:36:09.439-05:00David, psychology doesn't require a profession...David, psychology doesn't require a professional statistician among authors because psychologists are trained in statistics as part of their graduate training. Physicians, even researchers, receive far less statistics and methodology training. Our undergrads (not grads) take 2 courses in statistics (one in the math dept and one upper division covering the statistics most relevant to our field). Note also that most of the statistics currently used in biomedical fields were invented by people who considered themselves psychologists (or for use in studying psychological questions). That is because variability is inherent to human behavior. So, the requirement for a professional statistician is because of the weakness of the training, not the rigorous expectations of the field of medicine. At the graduate level, psychologists take several courses, usually at least multivariate statistics and some methods courses and then learn whatever is needed for the type of research they will be doing. I took 8 quantitative courses as a grad student. Doctors don't do that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-36665992710249334282014-02-03T15:33:32.041-05:002014-02-03T15:33:32.041-05:00In Liberalworld anything is possible. And in New ...In Liberalworld anything is possible. And in New Jersey, everything is possible, even among the unreliable acting with the best of intentions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32233987115635937982014-02-03T15:30:38.339-05:002014-02-03T15:30:38.339-05:00Anon. @ 2:29
Let us not get too caught up on ban...Anon. @ 2:29<br /><br />Let us not get too caught up on banana handling.<br />Baboons are primarily herbivorous. Yet they eat insects and occasionally prey on fish, shellfish, hares, birds, vervet monkeys, and small antelopes.<br /><br />BTW, for those of you still wedded to the wild stories of alien kidnappings and anal probing tales, put yourself in our place. If you came to probe on a strange planet, who would you pick? A dull human or an exciting, colorful, swollen-rump presenting baboon? <br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3973713420149259892014-02-03T15:01:30.339-05:002014-02-03T15:01:30.339-05:00According to a recent post, the blogger stated tha...According to a recent post, the blogger stated that Joan Walsh is "a liberal leader."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65589849240920271612014-02-03T14:56:55.263-05:002014-02-03T14:56:55.263-05:00ac/ma Thank you for asking. We just don't how...ac/ma Thank you for asking. We just don't how to answer. Was it not worthy?<br /><br />You see, BOB said Dowd's column "was discussing the way Bill Clinton engaged in oral sex with a 23-year-old federal employee in the mid-1990s."<br /><br />Despite that promising start, BOB then launched into a long discussion about a piece in which scientists are criticized in terms taken from that uniquely firm discipline, psychology. From there BOB rambled into candidate wardrobe, footwear, haircare, food preference and even sport performance. He returned to the science theme. Finally, after a long while, BOB used a literary reference to get back to Dowd. <br /><br />He titillated readers with what an implied masturbation reference to Dowd getting off to blow jobs, but tease that he is, BOB quickly went back to literary references in recent electoral history.<br /><br />We never heard a word about "the way Bill Clinton engaged in oral sex with a 23-year-old federal employee in the mid-1990s." I was looking forward the finding out whether BOB thought she did an adequate job discussing his technique. Or hers.<br />Meaning the faux 23-year old federal employee's technique, not Dowd's. We already learned she was stroking herself over blow jobs, not giving them. <br /><br />But other than that I thought he did an excellent job not covering anything at all that was in Dowd's column.<br /><br />KZ<br /><br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63485924449960059102014-02-03T14:29:49.874-05:002014-02-03T14:29:49.874-05:00Yes, KZ. But "our" scholarly simian'...Yes, KZ. But "our" scholarly simian's bananas got all sweaty, then smashy from all that self-stroking.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66996860953315285762014-02-03T14:26:09.091-05:002014-02-03T14:26:09.091-05:00Is there scientifice research without statistical ...Is there scientifice research without statistical analyses? And don't most peer review commities include a statistician? <br /><br /> Most science research depends on replication - it's a key tenents of the scientific method. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73557163636406933962014-02-03T14:01:32.963-05:002014-02-03T14:01:32.963-05:00IMHO medical research is more reliable than much o...IMHO medical research is <i>more reliable</i> than much other science research, because the leading medical journals require that any paper including statistical analysis must have a professional statistician among its co-authors. Given that a large percentage of medical studies are not reproducible, one can only imagine how many studies in, say psychology or climate, would not be reducible.David innoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-76712828339288995882014-02-03T13:38:39.481-05:002014-02-03T13:38:39.481-05:00"Please note that, despite the way the press ..."Please note that, despite the way the press has frequently covered the matter (see also Ioannidis' work), the subject matter under discussion is medical research, not science in general."<br /><br />Thank you for pointing that out 10:58. As a scientist, I found Bob's parroting of that incorrect quote far worse than "the media" constantly calling Lewinsky an intern. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4455103795354699172014-02-03T13:13:39.261-05:002014-02-03T13:13:39.261-05:00K(ray)Z, is your point that Dowd's column is n...K(ray)Z, is your point that Dowd's column is not worthy of criticism TDH has leveled?ac/manoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83474871501205689872014-02-03T12:55:41.986-05:002014-02-03T12:55:41.986-05:00We have just been made aware that a different trib...We have just been made aware that a different tribe of young baboons other than the self regarding ones at MSNBC may have been eating Wheaties rather than Cheerios, and spilled their Coca Cola in it while watching a despicable ad during the Super Bowl.<br /><br />We hope when BOB rushes his Part 2 post into cyberspace on this topic he will include this baboon outburst as well, because as all of us who follow and admire baboons know, both tribes do it.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5898055742003328452014-02-03T12:45:27.400-05:002014-02-03T12:45:27.400-05:00Anon. @ 12:09 Those Virginny Baboons did not have...Anon. @ 12:09 Those Virginny Baboons did not have nearly as many bananas in their treeehouse as "our" scholarly screeching simian had in her baboon britches. And even if they did acquire those bananas<br />distastefully, the rest of the troop was unharmed. There were plenty of bananas to go around.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com