by david allan van nostrand | Jun 26, 2023 | Human Behavior, Psychology, Shaky Science
Personality tests are designed to reveal what’s going on in our subconscious minds, the deep-down place where our emotions and inner conflicts reside. Structured surveys have a list of anywhere from 10 to 600 questions and test takers answer each by choosing...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 17, 2023 | Human Behavior, Shaky Science, The world around us
“Look! Up In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 15, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Shaky Science, Voodoo Statistics
Long before automated resumé screening, a friend complained long and loud about how every time he needed to hire someone to work in the office, the phone would ring all day. Most of the applicants who called about the job were not the kind of people who had resumés or...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 18, 2021 | Misinformation traps, Shaky Science, Voodoo Statistics
Radium, a solid, is one of forty radioactive elements (uranium, plutonium are the best-known). Discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, it glows in the dark and has a half-life of 1,600 years. Its less-toxic cousin radon (originally called radium emanation) is...
