Say Anything Blog

"I’m the Decider, and I have decided that the special wrap-around jacket with the extra long sleeves is going to look great on you!”

And Dumbbells prefer Gore/Kerry.

Tit for tat.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

There are dozens of different psychoses..  Hence, it is insane (ha ha) to try to quantify a set involving several qualitative divisions. 

Count on it becoming dogma in social services offices around the country, though, as social workers judge the fitness of Republicans to raise their children.

So if I can prove that the current voting system makes it more difficult for psychos to vote, can I sue somebody?

I’m sure the main authority figure the “psychos” are in contact with is their psychiatrist/caregiver.  It might be scientifically more accurate to find out what those people are telling the “psychos”, rather than drawing any other conclusions from this study.  More Bushslapping, I think.  Maybe most of the psychiatric personnel are lefties, and so the “psychos” adopt the opposite position, since they are powerless to do much of anything else to assert themselves.
If you want to know the real story, play some stuff with Dean, Hillary and Gore sometime.  There’s real mental illness on display.

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

My wife is going to have a heyday tearing this study apart.  She’s in her 2nd year of a 6 year Applied Social Psychology PhD at Loylola University.  As an applied Social Psychologist, she works with large number, preferences, and correleations between groups and preferences.
When I told her about this study, she laughed and wanted me to get her the link.  She said that the study is already false because it is impossible to prove that political orientation correlates with mental status.

the ‘student’ is engaging in the same sort of faulty reasoning that led to the NAZI study of Phrenology, which examined the shape of the head to determine who is a Jew.  It is scary that this sort of anti-intellectual though process is happening in today’s academic institutions.

Think about it...If conservatives/Bush supporters are psychotic and are therfore crazy, then rounding them up and putting them in institutions is only natural to protect society.  It will become a reason to arrest and lock up conservative voters.  The fascists are returning, and they don’t even know it themselves.

Psycho: The name’s Francis Sawyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don’t like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. And I don’t like nobody touching me. Any of you homos touch me, and I’ll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

lIBERALISM IS STILL A MENTAL DISORDER

This is what my wife wrote about the article:

The headline and story are misleading. He appears to have found a relationship, but a ‘relationship’ in scientific terms, does not justify the use of the “direct link” terminology.

consider the correlation between the number of rapes committed and ice-cream sales. When ice-cream sales increase, far more rapes are committed. Are we then to infer that ice-cream sales are the “direct link” to the prevalence of rape? Such conclusions are rightly laughable; nonetheless, this is the tenor of that report’s description of the study’s conclusions.

This is an example, par excellence, of scientific inferece run amok. It could very well be that Bush supporters have a higher than normal incidence of mental illness, but this study is but a reflection of four things: 1.) the units of observation: in this case, a sample of 200 or so college students at X university; 2.) the units of measurement: in this case, “mental illness” prevalence, which is left, quite conveniently, undefined in the article. I suspect that they are following some agreed upon criteria for “mental illness,” but this could span from depression to schizophrenia, and the differences within diagnoses would be much greater than differences between. 3.) the experimental setting: in this case, the campus of one university. 4.)The “treatment;” in this case, self-reported support for Bush. The “researcher” did not randomly assign this treatment, which is the scientific death knell for conclusions such as “there’s a direct link.” He (they) simply have not the data to make such assertions. Granted, there are various design elements that can buttress the validity of a causal conclusion, but none of those were indicated in the article.

Instead of wasting any precious energy on giving this ‘researcher’ air-time on the national media (which he, no doubt, will soon enjoy), I’d simply send him a textbook on generalized causal inference in scientific research...with a bright red bow on it. In fact, I may even highlight for him the relevant sections...he seems to need all the help he can get.

Sluggo, is your wife smarter than you?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

She’s smarter than me. 

But just you wait until we diffract an x-ray.  I’m all over that buddy.

According to her I’m the smarter one.  She says that she is the one with the drive, and I’m the one with the brains.  I think she’s just trying to be nice.