Tag: Math

What’s up wit’ da Supremes

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It’ll be quiet until 10/2 but this month’s fireworks should keep the chattering classes busy until then.

Let’s start with this: ‘The meaning of peace,” Karl Marx said, “is the absence of opposition to socialism.” And the Left’s definition of “Democracy” is the same.

‘Pow Wow Chow’ author has thoughts on affirmative action. …… which leads to this (language warning) … and we’re not letting it go

THIS wasn’t pointed out NEARLY enough: “Progressive Supreme Court Court justices can’t do basic math, peddle bogus statistic about black babies survival rate.” Isn’t that misinformation? Shouldn’t they be censored?? I’ll be posting this again NEXT week: HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: ‘I am a Black woman in America. I am always in the right.’

The problem, as always, depends on HOW you look at it and WHOSE ox is being gored: Asians and Orientals and Easterners, Oh My!

Justice Sotomayor and the Manipulation of “Race”

Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA: “Hispanic” Is an “Arbitrary or Undefined” Classification

SPEAKING OF ERRORS

IN RECENT SUPREME COURT OPINIONS: Justice Sotomayor wrote that during the Jim Crow era, University of North Carolina excluded “all people of color.” In fact, only black Americans were excluded.

FWIW, the majority referred to the facts in 303 seventeen times. The dissent? None

Edit to add, an hour later:

The Big Story of the Supreme Court’s Next Term

GIGO part n

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From Sara Hoyt: I think part of this is a hold over in people about 10 years older than I who thought of computers as “smart.” These are people who can barely navigate email or social media, and for whom computers are somehow, mysteriously, infallible. If someone can’t get Garbage In Garbage Out across to them, then we’ll just have to hit them with metaphorical two by fours when they go off half-cocked on some models. Because otherwise they will destroy us.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE STATES AND HOSPITALS INCENTIVE FOR FUDGING THE NUMBERS BY HAVING THE FEDS PAY FOR WINNIE THE FLU CASES:  Literally no one has any idea how many people COVID-19 has killed.

and … NYC Officials Now Counting Deaths of Those Who ‘Never Tested Positive’ in Coronavirus Totals.

Here’s How Much Downstate New York Is Skewing the United States’ Coronavirus Numbers. TLDNR: If NYC was treated as a separate country it would lead the world in per capita Rona cases and Rona deaths. And the balance of the US would drop out of the top 10!

Also … If Half the Country’s COVID Deaths Were in Montana, Would New York Shut Down?

Innumerate

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This month I’ve been reminded of the old Ben Rhodes quote. Rhodes was a Deputy Advisor for the NSA in the Obama Administration and will always be remembered (at least by ME) for saying “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old… They literally know nothing… We created an echo chamber… They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”

And so it is with the COVID-19 coverage to which we’ve been subjected of late. First, there’s almost ALWAYS one word missing from coverage – “reported.” There’s a WORLD of difference between the number of actual COVID-19 cases and those being reported. And that difference effects virtually every calculation and resulted derived therein. And so starting 13 days ago there was this: THEY WANT A STAMPEDE:  Distortion and fear: the MSM won’t quit doing this, because they think (know?) it works. Which kinda led to this: THIS SHOULD* BE THE END OF ANY LEGISLATION BASED ON COMPUTER MODELS:  Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns.and even casual observations like this: YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the United States’ Coronavirus Case Numbers. Eventually we started getting work like this: ALL MODELS ARE WRONG. SOME MODELS ARE USEFUL. But to be really useful, models must be based on accurate data, and a clear understanding of the processes being modeled, two things nobody has for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. ARE COVID-19 MODELS A SOUND BASIS FOR PUBLIC POLICY?. TL:DNR: No.

I could go on but am trying to stay away from the aggregating. But in THIS case I’ll make an exception.

My FAVORITE headline: Assume a Spherical Cow of Uniform Density in a Frictionless Vacuum.

Coronavirus: The Wrong Numbers. Will the media ever admit the failure of doomsday projections?

How Misinformation About the U.S. Needing ‘1 Million Ventilators’ Spread.

Grocery Workers are Beginning to Die of Coronavirus. The reporter tells us that at least four grocery store workers have died from Covid-19. Here is some quick math. About 2.5 million Americans work in grocery stores. About one in every 30 thousand Americans has now died of Coronavirus. Taking the simplest route, you would expect approximately 83 grocery, or 2.5 million/30 thousand, grocery store workers to have died of the virus.

Then we segue into this: WHEN IS A CORONAVIRUS DEATH ACTUALLY A CORONAVIRUS DEATH? Good question, raised by Julie Kelly of American Greatness. The answers are about as clear as a gallon of Mississippi River mud flats water.

I have more but I’ll assume I’ve exhausted your patience already. More after Easter?

Math in the time of

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…no …. just no. Probably wasn’t appropriate LAST time so we’ll just end it now. But a little aggregating from the maths department.

Seattle To Make Math Instruction All About Race, Downplay Right And Wrong

WHY CAN’T LIBERALS DO ARITHMETIC?:  And why don’t they know how many people live in the United States?  Power Line points out that Bernie Sander’s press secretary asserted on Twitter that 500 million Americans “go bankrupt from medical debt every year.”  Good grief.  That is far more bankruptcies than there are Americans.  Power Line points out that only about 750,000 personal bankruptcies occur annually from any cause.

and if you only follow ONE link, it should be THIS one: The Dreaded Red Squamish.