Supervisor of "complaint department" for water quality issues at the Department of Water and Power. (Retiring in April of 2022.)
Have vote totals been tampered with? Benford’s law is described in Wikipedia as “an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data”. Basically, in a large number of sets of data, the leading digit of the numbers is not equally to be any of the nine digits. It’s […]
I was reading through the “Best of Afterburner” again, and the piece on “Civility” provoked a comment. Since the Afterburner clips don’t seem to be available on this site, I’ll comment here. I noticed a couple of things when picking up a prescription yesterday after my chemo appointment. (Since I was already on site, it […]
I’ve posted links on Facebook to a couple of articles pointing out that there’s no evidence that the lockdowns (or Coronapocalypse, if you like) have done anything to “flatten the curve”. It’s interesting to watch the reactions to these posts. Almost all have proclaimed “Of course it worked. See how the curve has flattened?” To […]