Category: Observations

Since they are targeted to patients rather than doctors, and are as numerous as they are, it must mean that they sometimes succeed in getting a patient to persuade their doctor to prescribe it when they otherwise would not have. But that means either that the doctor is incompetent or is unethical enough to prescribe… Continue reading Prescription Drug TV Commercials Have Concerning Implications.

Stupak needed 50 million to build his tower but only had ten. He needed investors but couldn’t get any because they were skeptical that he could get the tower built. I asked him how much it cost to build it 80% of the way up to the bottom of the “pod”. When he said “ten… Continue reading Spending Ten Million to Eliminate Skepticism Brings In 300 Mil. 

This thought of mine applies to everyone but is probably most easily seen in dreams of poker players. You are playing hold em and need a spade on the river. In your dream, you are hoping for that spade, not “knowing” whether it will come. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. But wait! You… Continue reading Did You “River” the Flush in Your Dream? 

Other newspapers wouldn’t print it though they knew it was true. But they also knew it would change votes and give the election to Titus who otherwise had little chance. I think it’s pretty hard to make a case that it was me that was wrong. No further explanation needed. All comments welcome.

I recently read an article that stated something like “children of rich people are 6% to acquire a patent but only 1% of poor children are”. That’s a shame. However, those poor people who claim that it is this fact that is the reason they have no patent, need to acknowledge that poor people in… Continue reading Don’t Blame Lack of Opportunity If it Wouldn’t Have Mattered.

I sometimes see an article talking about how pro poker players can make good stock traders because they can take losses when they realize the game was tougher than they thought. They don’t try to “get even”. But that strategy does not extend to buying stocks because your losses, while similarly implying that your initial… Continue reading A Dumb Analogy Between Poker and Stock Trading.

#68 above is just one of a myriad of situations where an endeavor that doesn’t usually require math sometimes does. But if the person in charge of that endeavor (e.g. a football coach) isn’t good at math, it is my experience that he or she tries to find a reason why the mathematical conclusion is… Continue reading People Who Resist Adding Math to Their Decision Making Invariably Can’t Do the Required Math.

Since I first wrote this, scientists have discovered a syndrome similar to my speculation. I originally thought of this because some biological changes seem to occur faster than standard evolution would appear to predict. But if there was a sort of “second derivative genes” that kicked in when the environment was quickly changing, that could… Continue reading Might There Be Genes That Control How Likely Other Genes Tend to Mutate?

No further explanation needed. All comments welcome.

No further explanation needed. All comments welcome.