Unfortunately for your comment, the first two recounts in the WA election were requested by now-Governor Gregoire and the Washington Deomcratic Party. It was only after the votes swung her way that she suddenly decided that the election fracas had gone on long enough and it was "time to move on." It was at this time that the Republican Party switched its stance from "no more recounts, just get over it," to asking for a recount and challenging the election in court. I'm angry at both sides for their shameless manipulation of the system, and I'm angry at the Washington SecState for such an ineffecient and incompetent election staff/process. Given that, no matter what the results, the election was the closest gubernatorial race in US history, a repeat election seems in order.
In King County, another 95 votes have been recently "discovered," which were not counted in the November election. By themselves, not enough to change the outcome of the race, but enough to fuel the fires of those (myself included) who feel we deserve another election.
In another note, special election ballots sent to servicepersons overseas last week apparently contained everything except the actual ballot. Once again, the soldier gets screwed out of his or her vote, either by sending absentee ballots out too late or by simply not being given one.
Not sure if this has been posted already, because I couldn't read all 600 comments, but Gabe and Tycho touched on the same subject today on Penny Arcade, and provided excellent links to a number of blogs on the same subject. The upshot is that Johnson's argument is the logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo procter hoc. Association doesn't equal causation. Unfortunately, most people believe everything they hear on the news.
Mm. Interesting that the article should cost $7.95 to read, given that it's only 42k in size....I think SciAm may have slightly missed the point. The entire magazine costs less than that. Kind of takes the sheen off talking about bottled water as too expensive.
Hasn't Scott Adams been pointing out these very things in the DNRC Newsletter for a few years now? Coincidentally, I got a new one in my email today...
The military has done research on sleep deprivation and critical task completion with compelling results. Although some of these tests are designed to see what happens when soldiers are expected to perform tasks under sleep-deprived conditions (http://www.tfhrc.gov/humanfac/sleep/sleepweb.htm) , the principle stands. An entire manual has been published to give guidance on sleep deprivation and suicide prevention, among other things. The military has consistently demonstrated that conditions of overwork and inadequate time off lead to poor performance, flawed decision-making and increased rates of suicide and interpersonal relational issues (for the interested, the manual is available here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159248302X/ webmill0c11-20/ref%3Dnosim/104-3212632-3606348), or free if you have an AKO account.
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Whoops, this was posted to the wrong subthread. Meant for the AC who replied further down. Sorry.
Unfortunately for your comment, the first two recounts in the WA election were requested by now-Governor Gregoire and the Washington Deomcratic Party. It was only after the votes swung her way that she suddenly decided that the election fracas had gone on long enough and it was "time to move on." It was at this time that the Republican Party switched its stance from "no more recounts, just get over it," to asking for a recount and challenging the election in court. I'm angry at both sides for their shameless manipulation of the system, and I'm angry at the Washington SecState for such an ineffecient and incompetent election staff/process. Given that, no matter what the results, the election was the closest gubernatorial race in US history, a repeat election seems in order.
In King County, another 95 votes have been recently "discovered," which were not counted in the November election. By themselves, not enough to change the outcome of the race, but enough to fuel the fires of those (myself included) who feel we deserve another election. In another note, special election ballots sent to servicepersons overseas last week apparently contained everything except the actual ballot. Once again, the soldier gets screwed out of his or her vote, either by sending absentee ballots out too late or by simply not being given one.
Not sure if this has been posted already, because I couldn't read all 600 comments, but Gabe and Tycho touched on the same subject today on Penny Arcade, and provided excellent links to a number of blogs on the same subject. The upshot is that Johnson's argument is the logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo procter hoc. Association doesn't equal causation. Unfortunately, most people believe everything they hear on the news.
Mm. Interesting that the article should cost $7.95 to read, given that it's only 42k in size....I think SciAm may have slightly missed the point. The entire magazine costs less than that. Kind of takes the sheen off talking about bottled water as too expensive.
So far, it's nearly impermiable, and hasn't filtered a legitimate email yet....
Hasn't Scott Adams been pointing out these very things in the DNRC Newsletter for a few years now? Coincidentally, I got a new one in my email today...
The military has done research on sleep deprivation and critical task completion with compelling results. Although some of these tests are designed to see what happens when soldiers are expected to perform tasks under sleep-deprived conditions (http://www.tfhrc.gov/humanfac/sleep/sleepweb.htm) , the principle stands. An entire manual has been published to give guidance on sleep deprivation and suicide prevention, among other things. The military has consistently demonstrated that conditions of overwork and inadequate time off lead to poor performance, flawed decision-making and increased rates of suicide and interpersonal relational issues (for the interested, the manual is available here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159248302X/ webmill0c11-20/ref%3Dnosim/104-3212632-3606348), or free if you have an AKO account.