Unbelievable. Looks like Time Warner has a bit of a PR debacle on its hands. A Time Warner customer service representative, Julia Nelson, died at her desk at a Time Warner customer call center in Garfield Heights, Ohio last month. It turns out that a Time Warner employee (who refused to be interviewed on camera) …
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Occupy Santa Cruz: Bank of America Threatens to Arrest Customers Trying to Close Their Accounts
“You can’t be a customer and a protestor.” This is bananas. From Stephen Foster at Addicting Info: Two protesters involved with Occupy Santa Cruz in California walked into Bank of America earlier this week to close their own accounts as part of the national protest against the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street, which has …
Early Morning Open Thread: Silliness
__ A reminder from Keith Humphreys at the Washington Monthly on the inherent limitations of statistical prognostications: … In psychiatry, there is a fun logical problem in which students are asked to generate an instrument that will accurately classify people with and without schizophrenia in a sample of the population. Students draw up elaborate series …
You don’t have to be rich
I understand the argument that there are reasonably middle-class people who are worth over a million dollars. I am sympathetic to the notion that their lives are different quite different from those of the Koch brothers or Bill Gates. But Bieber, Mary, and Joseph, this is some unconvincing shit, even for Kaplan: Though the average …
CNN Tea Party Audience Cheers at Idea of Letting Sick Uninsured Man Die
Stays Klassy. The CNN debate last night was wretched. It was everything that is wrong with this country — including feckless media and pundunces who should be ashamed for mainstreaming Teabilly bullshit — crammed into a studio so laden with patriotic lights, flags, and other Americana that even the creators of South Park and Team …
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Death becomes them
TPM has footage of the applause for the death penalty: That’s who the Republican base is. They are who we thought they were. They may not even be kill-crazy maniacs at heart, they just like tough talk from a cowboy. Steve M. got it right, the base wants I’m the kind of winger who’s built …
statistics bleg
I am someone who is coming to statistical literacy fairly late in life, or late in education, anyway. I was a humanities guy who is becoming a social science hybrid, and learning the last five years about research methodology, quantitative research, and similar topics has been a challenging and satisfying endeavor. But I’m still very …