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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
October 27, 2004
Category: misc
Lott has responded to Media Matters criticism of his comments on Florida 2000. Lott writes: Media matters makes it look like I was talking about "voter disenfranchisement" (which I assume includes the non-voted ballot issue) by adding into what...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:36 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Via Ralph Luker I find Andrew Ackerman's correction of a Boston Globe article that downplayed Michael Bellesiles' misconduct. The Emory panel rightly found Bellesiles guilty of falsification and other academic misconduct. It is disgraceful that the American Enterprise Institute...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2004
Category: maths
Baseball's World Series is played over the best of seven games. The first two games are played at the home field of one team (we will call this one team A), the next three at the home field of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 25, 2004
Category: misc
Media Matters for America details Lott's latest bizarre claim about the 2000 election in Florida---on CNN Lott claimed: I think a lot of the discussion about disenfranchising African-American voters, in particular I think it's been fairly sad, because I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:56 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 23, 2004
Category: politics
Via Pandagon I find an appallingly innumerate article on polls by Michael Barone: Blogger Steven Den Beste has prepared an interesting chart. Den Beste charges that pollsters "deliberately gimmicked" the results, "in hopes of helping Kerry." I don't agree...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:36 AM • 12 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 22, 2004
Category: misc
Orin Kerr writes writes about Wikipedia My very tentative conclusion, based on a just few sample queries, is that I hope no one relies on Wikipedia for anything very important. Its entries seem to be a strange mix of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:54 AM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 21, 2004
Category: McKitrick
There seems to be some confusion about McKitrick's latest attempt to refute global warming. For instance, Andrew Sullivan thinks that McKitrick's famous degrees-radians screw up is part of this latest attempt. However, McKitrick claims to have refuted global warming...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:29 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 18, 2004
Category: McKitrick
In this column, Richard Muller claims that McKitrick and McIntyre have shown that the hockey stick graph is an "artifact of poor mathematics". If you have been following the global warming debate this claim should look familiar, because McKitrick...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:34 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
Steven den Beste has looked at a graph of polls of voting intentions and decided: In September, I think there was a deliberate attempt to depress Kerry's numbers, so as to set up an "October comeback". Of course, the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:21 AM • 12 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 14, 2004
Category: politics
Earlier, Glenn Reynolds accused me of spinning because I wrote that "the [Australian] election was not about Iraq---it was hardly an issue.". Now he approvingly links to a piece by Greg Sheridan Labor did not buy a single ad...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:38 PM • 6 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
The grandly named EnviroTruth web site has section that purports to debunk "myths" about climate change. The "myths" include the usual false claims such as satellite measurements don't show warming, but "myth" number 11 is pretty funny. Here's "myth"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:32 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 13, 2004
Category: politics
Glenn Reynolds, in a heroic leap, has apparently concluded that the election in Australia really was a referendum on Iraq and folks who don't think so must just be spinning. One of those spinning must be Prime Minister John...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:33 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
October 12, 2004
Category: politics
Tim Blair continues to insist that the election was about Iraq. I'll look at his arguments in a moment, but first let's look at what everybody else says about this. Tom Allard and Mark Metherell in the Sydney Morning...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:57 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 11, 2004
Category: politics
The relentless spinning of the result of the election in Australia continues. In the New York Post John O'Sullivan's headline is "Bush wins again". I didn't even know Bush was running in the election here. O'Sullivan also writes: Al...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 10, 2004
Category: politics
The warbloggers have been attempting to spin the result of the election here to their advantage. Cori Dauber claims that the election "was a referendum on Australia's participation in Iraq", and Glenn Reynolds claims that it was "in no...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:43 PM • 16 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
October 8, 2004
Category: politics
For reasons similar to those given by Tim Dunlop, Jason Soon and John Quiggin, I'll be voting Labor in the election today. Not that it makes a difference, since I live in Kingsford Smith, a safe Labor seat. I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:24 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 5, 2004
Category: Global Warming
Readers may remember Pat Michaels, who authored a paper one that "disproved" global warming by deliberately removing almost one-third of the satellite data from his analysis and co-operated with Ross McKitrick on another paper that managed to "prove" that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:45 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 2, 2004
Category: politics
I see that the Sydney Morning Herald is now publishing funky conspiracy theories. Alan Anderson informs us that Kyoto is nothing but a Euro-commie plot: Of course, everyone who is familiar with the Kyoto Protocol knows what it really...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:35 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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