I had no idea that we had over 2 million crossings was during George W's time in the White House. That’s not something the Republican party would trumpet.
I appreciate the wisdom about the nuances of interpreting data--thank you for sharing this data with me and guiding me through some of it. (In an optics lab in my class yesterday a student group had issues related to this... turned out they really didn't understand the procedure in the first place—their data was good, but what they measured wasn’t what the procedure was investigating!)
Your comment early on “Data has a remarkable way of complicating political talking points” is spot on. In our era of 24/7 news, busy people with bills to pay (me!), and short attention spans, simplistic talking points will dominate. We don’t really have an informed population that would watch a talk on data analysis. (I’m not even sure some of our politicians would understand data analysis.) I’m also not sure that a competent, honest, “Mr. Smith” could go to Washington these days.
Thanks again John.
I had no idea that we had over 2 million crossings was during George W's time in the White House. That’s not something the Republican party would trumpet.
I appreciate the wisdom about the nuances of interpreting data--thank you for sharing this data with me and guiding me through some of it. (In an optics lab in my class yesterday a student group had issues related to this... turned out they really didn't understand the procedure in the first place—their data was good, but what they measured wasn’t what the procedure was investigating!)
Your comment early on “Data has a remarkable way of complicating political talking points” is spot on. In our era of 24/7 news, busy people with bills to pay (me!), and short attention spans, simplistic talking points will dominate. We don’t really have an informed population that would watch a talk on data analysis. (I’m not even sure some of our politicians would understand data analysis.) I’m also not sure that a competent, honest, “Mr. Smith” could go to Washington these days.
God bles.