by Beth Alderman | Oct 12, 2020 | General
“Many at Restart described it as a vicious cycle of depression and screen-enabled dopamine feedback loops.” – Charlie Warzl in “Inside How A 12-Step Recovery Program For Social Media Addiction Works” Buzzfeed News It’s amazing how much we late moderns love...
by Beth Alderman | Oct 3, 2020 | General
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein In teaching statistics and statistical analysis, we introduce a number of assumptions that tend to take on a life of their own. Events are random or can be treated as such. If...
by Beth Alderman | Oct 3, 2020 | General
“Knowledge of perception and ignorance about decision theory both contributed to a large step forward in our research.” – Daniel Kahneman The body—miracle that it is—can do some things but not others. For this reason, whatever misfortunes may befall the body,...
by Beth Alderman | Sep 27, 2020 | General
“The main reason that decision theorists study simple gambles is that this is what other decision theorists do.” – Daniel Kahneman All diagnoses are clinical. Despite late modern efforts to systemize medicine as an industrial or IT product, medicine remains a...
by Beth Alderman | Sep 27, 2020 | General
“I noticed soon after we ate, they went into the desert, emptied their bowels, and it did not have the strong smell that is associated with waste matter in our lifestyle.” Marlo Morgan If you live in Australia or in one of the New Age capitols of the world, or if you...
by Beth Alderman | Sep 20, 2020 | General
“In science as in religion the truth shines ahead as a beacon showing us the path; we do not ask to attain it, it is better far that we be permitted to seek it.” – Sir Arthur Eddington in Science and the Unseen World Symptoms are your friends. They tell you when...
