tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post3374219732115841342..comments2024-03-29T06:37:18.029-04:00Comments on Not Running a Hospital: Dear NY Times, let us interpret the newsPaul Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-85054746011555894152011-10-11T18:48:49.845-04:002011-10-11T18:48:49.845-04:00I agree with you. It is so frustrating to read al...I agree with you. It is so frustrating to read almost anything today that I find it difficult to take the time to read in depth any newspapers except the sports sections.Howardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-32409920341764224482011-10-11T05:56:46.114-04:002011-10-11T05:56:46.114-04:00From Facebook:
Patricia: This is exactly the topi...From Facebook:<br /><br />Patricia: This is exactly the topic I am covering in my English Comp. 1 class right now. Can I use this post in my class?<br /><br />Omid: Another tell in the story is the use of "household income". That is a very misleading statistic since household sizes change all the time. A more intellectually honest metric would be personal income.<br /><br />Bob: I agree, Paul - and the Times sister paper, the Boston Globe, blurs the line consistently with editorial comments strewn willy nilly throughout what is supposed to be objective reporting. A case in point is the recent spate of articles on gaming (and I have no fox in this hunt, just a casual observer).<br /><br />Beverly: Oh, the Globe is a newspaper?Paul Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-64815043570260207322011-10-11T05:13:31.209-04:002011-10-11T05:13:31.209-04:00Correct, Dave.Correct, Dave.Paul Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-28628532302749063782011-10-10T18:06:47.890-04:002011-10-10T18:06:47.890-04:00omg, did I just say "fighting the good fit&qu...omg, did I just say "fighting the good fit"??<br /><br />See what I mean?<br /><br />(I've always wished that blog comment software would let me edit what I posted, but very few do, and I'm pretty sure Blogspot won't even let Paul edit it for me.)e-Patient Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381434866099596466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-80559652383932442562011-10-10T17:35:36.946-04:002011-10-10T17:35:36.946-04:00I think of the class of undergraduates, hoping for...I think of the class of undergraduates, hoping for an easy 'A' from their choice of social science. After a disappointing show of curiosity, observation and analytic skills, one said, "but science is hard!" Why bother with fact-finding when those well-worn synapses of belief seem to work just fine? Put another way: information processing is time consuming and energetically expensive. And the social and economic benefits of herd behavior are overwhelmingly higher than probable outcomes from tweaking (i.e. questioning) dominants in the group. So, is the NYT is responding to the herd, or to its dominants?<br /><br />Anti-intellectualism has been at a boil in this country for decades, and the NYT piece echoes the fear-centricity of its reasoning. We cannot leave so much of the population behind - and hold so few accountable for their words - and not expect to pay for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-54895289891135738502011-10-10T14:57:22.028-04:002011-10-10T14:57:22.028-04:00Dave, I wish this comment column had a 'like&#...Dave, I wish this comment column had a 'like' button; I'd check it for your comment. (come to think of it, speaking of causes of "illthinkeracy".......)<br /><br />nonlocalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-46659908725904576002011-10-10T09:31:56.242-04:002011-10-10T09:31:56.242-04:00I have no insight into what's happening in the...I have no insight into what's happening in the halls of the Gray Lady, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone there were to notice, after decades of fighting the good fit, that they were getting whupped by the other side's "We report, you decide" liars (my characterization :-)), and decided to fight back.<br /><br />I don't like the idea that fewer and fewer Americans know how to look below the surface of *anything* but I'm pretty sure it's a principal reason why people like Rush Limbaugh get away with the idiot things they say. I personally railed for those same decades against the decline of literacy and "thinkeracy" but here we are.<br /><br />(And you know I myself still prefer to think and lit.)e-Patient Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381434866099596466noreply@blogger.com