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  • Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part I

    08/12/2009 9:48:38 AM PDT · by mattstat · 2 replies · 381+ views
    If Sally is over six feet tall and Bill is over six feet tall, too, are Sally and Bill over six feet tall? What if you had a room full of Sallys, each at least six feet, and in that room are also a gaggle of Bills, all over six feet. Would it be true that each person in that room is at least six feet tall? Men, on average, are taller than women. It is certainly true that some women are taller than some men, but in any collection of “the tallest” most of those collected will be men...
  • Meet the Newest Member of the Faculty -- The Weather Underground is on her resume. Prison, too.

    12/03/2004 6:10:32 AM PST · by OESY · 8 replies · 1,023+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 3, 2004 | ROGER KIMBALL
    At Hamilton College... you can take... "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change."... Its teacher is Susan Rosenberg, formerly of the Weather Underground. ...Its self-described revolutionaries, mostly middle-class, dedicated themselves to supporting radical black causes and tearing apart American society in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1970, they blew up a townhouse when a bomb detonated prematurely and killed a few of their troops. Kathy Boudin, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other high-profile members of the group spent the next decade or so running from the police and, some of them, continuing to pursue careers in criminal violence.... So why...