Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

and interesting paradox

...or at least, a perspective



JUST IN!... THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN!

(FILM AT 11... or BELOW)



...one way of thinking
that condemns, degrades,
or otherwise attempts to negate
another way of thinking...

not ok?

Saturday, October 31, 2009

no video, just observation (david letterman)

i wonder if the obvious difference in how david letterman approaches and interacts with little girls and little boys would have been as noticeable on his 2009 halloween bit if his apparent history of womanizing was not recently exposed... the kids appeared uncomfortable either with being on stage or with dave or both... but it was his flirtatious language and extended conversations with the little girls and brevity with the little boys that stood out from my perspective... his language was almost creepy and pretty manipulative, in fact, and definitely different for each gender... i find myself disappointed in him now more than i was before... hey dave, look at the tape and think about it...

Monday, January 5, 2009

magdalene sisters



the magdalene story : : : : : : : : : magdalene laundries site

cbs news story : : : : : : : : : related music


Emmylou Harris singing Joni Mitchell's song The Magdalene Laundries

Thursday, January 17, 2008

political pop news

FOX QUIZ PURPORTS TO TELL YOU YOUR CANDIDATE



QUERY: Is FOX really playing partisan politics?

PONDER: With shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, American Dad, and others mocking everything (or do they really mock everything, or are big fat dumb liberals what they are really laughing at?... would FOX air South Park or Bill Maher?), not to mention other sex and violence filled shows, how could the network be conservative? Perhaps it is just the the news department getting that rap? Is the rap accurate? Well, there is at least one question in this survey that is clearly questionable: Churches should provide welfare services. Sounds good, unless that means the government should give our tax dollars to churches. That would be government support of religion and that's a dangerous road. History 101. So is it a disguised question for which the religious right would like to see a lot of YES answers? Or is it just a poorly worded question that can provide a variable, and therefore statistically irrelevant answer that leads to an inaccurate result? Either way, it blows the quiz for me and anyone into accurate statistical analysis or predicative science.

CONCLUSION: But it's still fun to take quizzes, right? :)