tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post1366036109808119905..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-83477603913979400442008-09-27T04:27:00.000-07:002008-09-27T04:27:00.000-07:00I was a visiting professor at Central Michigan U l...I was a visiting professor at Central Michigan U last fall, teaching statistics courses.<BR/><BR/>I got one of these letters in each of three classes of about 30 students. My impression, after talking with colleagues, was that this was a usual number.<BR/><BR/>If these letters truly represent learning disabilities among introductory statistics students, then that is an enormous rate. <BR/><BR/>So what is more likely: (1) The rate of learning disabilities in colleges students really is about 1 in 30, or (2) Learning disabilities are being over diagnosed so that kids don't drop out of school (and that school loses tuition dollars).William M. Briggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07846706028975531400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-13554332883929371012008-08-28T10:19:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:19:00.000-07:00"Not everyone with a learning disability is dumb. ..."Not everyone with a learning disability is dumb. Many are in fact quite smart."<BR/><BR/>That isn't the argument here. Do try and keep up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-12446344710589069052008-08-27T14:32:00.000-07:002008-08-27T14:32:00.000-07:00Not everyone with a learning disability is dumb. ...Not everyone with a learning disability is dumb. Many are in fact quite smart.Jewish Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04616617537150446818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-71525164486148505362008-08-27T12:24:00.000-07:002008-08-27T12:24:00.000-07:00http://www.moonbattery.com/Meddling Envirokooks Un...http://www.moonbattery.com/<BR/>Meddling Envirokooks Unleash Plague of Giant Man-Eating Lizards<BR/>Once people on the islands of eastern Indonesia lived in peace with Komodo dragons, gigantic lizards that can recognize individual humans. They left the dragons deer parts after hunts, and tied goats to posts as sacrifices. In turn the semidomesticated dragons mostly left them alone. But then, Virginia-based Nature Conservancy was called in by the government to tell the villagers how to conduct their affairs.<BR/><BR/>Deer hunting and goat sacrifices have been banned. Now that the villagers are no longer allowed to feed them, the ten-foot lizards have adapted by eating children instead.<BR/><BR/>Dogs used to keep the dragons away from homes. But these have been banned too, for being an "alien species."<BR/><BR/>A 9-year-old named Mansur was eaten alive in broad daylight in front of his family. But Marcus Matthews-Sawyer, who works for a local subsidiary of Nature Conservancy, sniffs that the kid had it coming, because he "shouldn't have crouched like a prey species in a place where dragons live."<BR/><BR/>Widodo Ramono, the subsidiary's policy director, makes the priorities clear:<BR/><BR/>We don't want the Komodo dragon to be domesticated. It's against natural balance. We have to keep this conservation area for the purpose of wildlife. It is not for human beings.<BR/>As Ingrid Newkirk might put it, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy is a giant lizard's lunch.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.com