Half of Us Are Below Average
By definition, half of us are below average (you know who you are). Statistics can be confusing, however (see, for example, “Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists”). This may explain why the entire crop of Republican presidential hopefuls is below average. If it were up to me, I would change […]
Too Many Laws
The US has the most prisoners of any country in the world; one in every 32 adults in this country is in jail. There are lots of people who get paid to analyze this. It seems to me that we do have an awful lot of laws, and that people often are unaware, or just […]
