Service with a Smile
When I was a rookie bartender working my way through college, I found a grizzled veteran who…
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Canary In the Coal Mine
Friends who know my statistical background have been asking what pandemic numbers I watch, so I thought…
T.P. and A.I.
You’ve seen and heard many stories about toilet paper shortages. The stories seem real because shelves are…
Nothing to Sneeze About
Konrad Putzier wrote in the Wall Street Journal how after years of crowding office workers into ever-smaller…
Chain of Custody
Evidence is defined as the available body of information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or…
Methodology is not the study of how Methodists do things.
People are methodologists without realizing it until I ask them if they’ve ever done a jigsaw puzzle….
Money for Nothing
We passed the entrance to this market research facility several times because we had automatically assumed we…
What Color is Your Parachute?
As each stove came down the assembly line, I plugged a two-pronged electric heating coil into a…
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
We cannot say how much research costs any more than we can say how much a car…
Where does the average person go more often – the library or the movie theater?
A new survey by Pew Research Center found how over the course of the last 12 months,…