As a full disclaimer, I’m terrible at arithmetic. Particularly if I think someone is analyzing my speed at manipulating numbers in my head. I think part of it is because I’ve had more than the average training in mathematics, and I think this is somehow supposed to make me a computer in the original sense …
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Unsupported Conclusions
Lately I feel as though I’m drowning in a sea of unsupported conclusions whenever I read the news. Today’s winner is this article from the New York Times, which includes the statement “Americans eat many more vegetables when meals are prepared for them in restaurants than when they cook for themselves”. I’m not going to …