There’s a herd of pachyderms in the room
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Priorities, Statistics | No Comments »The biggest elephant in the room is population, but there is a whole herd of elephants that are not getting any daily attention. You know kids, how you have a thing in your room that needs fixing, but you keep putting ...
What we have here is a Bimodal Distribution
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, family | No Comments »Since we are trying to push for a data base to generate long term forecasts of the national and world most important issues, grandpa wants to point out a present day problem in America that needs attention. To do this ...
America is Not Yet Lost
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media | 2 Comments »A little over a year ago, a Russian professor predicted that the disintegration of America would occur by 2010. The Russian National Security Agency, FAPSI, said it will begin with wealthier nations withholding funds from America. Paul Krugman began his article "America ...
Back to the drawing board
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »After looking into the difficulties and and the huge effort to set up a dedicated Forecast Channel built around charts & graphs to get accurate data on the world and national mid to long term problems, I've concluded that it ...
It’s better to trust … than not trust
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »What do you do kids when you feel you can't trust your government and you can't trust many of our influential business leaders? Where do we turn for truthful information? In a recent article by David Brooks called; "Politics in the age of Distrust" he offers ...
Do older Boomers still read the newspapers?
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Journalism, Statistics, TV News Media | 4 Comments »I'm one generation older than the oldest Baby Boomer. Do you older Boomers still like reading the daily newspaper over coffee in the morning and relax on Sunday with all the information in the thick Sunday paper? The "Tablet" is ...
Opportunities
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, family | No Comments »With all the challenges of the 21st century, there will be great opportunities. This is a preliminary search for information on the Internet on the job opportunities that should be available as you grandchidren begin working. The Bureau of Labor ...
A Thought Experiment
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Statistics, media | No Comments »If the NRA had complete control and responsibility over the gun licensing and the sale of fire arms to the American public, would things be any different? No comments please. Think about it. I't's a thought experiment.
Open question to whitehouse.gov
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Statistics, TV News Media | 3 Comments »How will the Obama team measure performance against the critical issues that are now on unsustainable exponential curves? Why do politicians & journalist try to verbally explain chart data ... instead of just using a chart? If pictures are worth a thousand words ... Then why aren't ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part III]
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, TV News Media | 7 Comments »Why would we want to have a TV station devoted to long term projections on crucial issues on a daily basis? Isn't there enough boring stuff on TV already? Isn't our present method of "wait for a crisis to occur ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part II]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, TV News Media | 2 Comments »Yesterday (3-12-09) Jon Stewart exposed Jim Cramer as a business journalist "snake oil salesman". Tonight (3-13-09) The PBS News Hour discussed the Stewart/Cramer episode and asked a panel of business writers and analysts to watch a clip from the show. ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part I]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, media | No Comments »Lawyers, (most of our politicians), and Journalist, (media people) are by-in-large verbal people. They don't seem to consider the possibility that several hundred words can be turned into a picture, chart or graph. Word information is growing exponentially. We're drowning ...
Why didn’t they show us the TED spread?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Statistics, media | No Comments »Almost all the financial reporters and pundants agree that the credit crunch message done poorly and was lost in the bail out of Wall Street message. The afternoon the House failed to pass the bill, I watched the plunge in the stock market as ...
We want to be entertained … not informed
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Statistics, media | No Comments »How can you make the majority of Americans interested in subjects like; "U.S. endless growth is unsustainable", (columnist Neal Peirce), or the "U.S. is going broke" (columnist David Broder). Most people want to be entertained and don't read the editorial columns in the papers ...
Wait for the crisis to occur … before you try to fix it
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Statistics, media | No Comments »Kids, before you get into this, blog go to http://blow.blogs.nytimes.com/ In the archive list click on Hans Rosling and view his video on statistical presentations. There are some amazing possibilities with this type of statistical presentation. It was my observation that in ...