Month: January 2012
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Too smart to be a good cop
Several readers have pointed me to this amusing story, Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops: A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. … “This kind of puts an official face…
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23andMe controversies in the genetic genealogy community
A few readers have pointed me to controversies having to do with 23andMe’s “terms of use”. You can read about it over at Your Genetic Genealogist, who has two posts up on the issues. I think the crux is that the early enthusiasts for personal genomics in the genetic genealogy community can not support the revenue…
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“Doctors don’t cure nothing”
NSFW As I observed before, modern medicine is subject to some of the same statistical issues as social science in its tendency to put unwarranted spotlight on preferred false positive results. Trials and Errors – Why Science Is Failing Us: This doesn’t mean that nothing can be known or that every causal story is equally…
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Predictions for 2012
So you don’t enter the new year completely unprepared, here are my most secure predictions for 2012. Unlike other prognostication websites, these predictions are based on Science! 1. Freely-falling objects will accelerate toward the ground at an approximately constant rate, up to corrections due to air resistance. 2. Of all the Radium-226 nuclei on the…