Monthly Archives: September 2008

Answers to Global Warming/Oil production survey

Questions and answers to the Mechanical Turk survey are below: 1. Please describe what *Climate Change* means to you. The average course or condition of the weather at a particular place over a period of many years as exhibited in absolute extremes, means, and frequencies of given departures from these means, of temperature, wind velocity, [...]

Mind Over Matter

Following the Great Fish Fraud, Edward Dolnick wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times today, Fish or Foul?, which is a reminder that our minds play great tricks on us. The point is simple. Even when we think we know something, we are often wrong. And experts are just as bad as novices—maybe [...]