by david allan van nostrand | Jan 27, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Items in the News, Misinformation traps
As a kid, when the arm was down at railroad crossings I would pay close attention to the freight cars as they went by. I made up a game where I held as many of the six-digit railcar I.D. numbers as I could in memory with the goal of finding consecutive numbers amongst...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 20, 2020 | Sociology, Teaching
Undergraduate grade point averages are the first thing doctoral programs look at and my application would have been automatically binned if they had Artificial Intelligence scanners in those days, but it was 1977 and they didn’t. The Indiana University Sociology...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 13, 2020 | Gatekeepers, How to tell good research from bad, Items in the News, Research
With hundreds of thousands of employee training options to choose from, companies are struggling to figure out how to tell the worthwhile programs from those that are a waste of money. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Home Depot’s Lesley Leiserson, who manages...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 6, 2020 | Gatekeepers, Items in the News, Misinformation traps
A new study shows that people who go to museums, art galleries, the theater, and concerts live longer than those who don’t. The researchers, professors of psychology and epidemiology, described in detail their study’s methods, sample, and most importantly,...
