I have written about how my book was banned by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association in much the same way that Art Spiegelman’s was banned by a school board in Tennessee.  I have also written about the message I received from Google about my blog posts on the Ukraine war.  Now it’s math textbooks in […]

The trend in Covid-19 Cases in Cambria County Last week I posted on how county health rankings overall measures predicted the number of cases and deaths in each county in Pennsylvania.  These measures were composites of dozens of more specific county level measures.  There are too many univariate correlations to summarize here.  The cases used […]

I have an interview published on the website Manufacturing Chemist on healthcare analytics which you are welcome to check out.   Today is pi Day (march 14 or 3/14).  Which is more celebrated now than March 15 or the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was killed.  Of course it’s not as celebrated as St. Patrick’s […]

I have a new post on sports and statistics on the news site Darply. Featured prominently in this article is former Baltimore Ravens center John Urschel who retired from the NFL to pursue a PhD at MIT in Mathematics.  You can see another interview he recently gave on Amanpour and Company at the link below.   […]

Andrew Hacker, a political scientist has written a book called The Math Myth.  In it he argues that the emphasis on everyone learning algebra, geometry and for the elite students calculus is misguided and the curriculum should be tailored to meet individual needs.  He says “At most, 5 percent of people really use math, advanced […]

People often assume that because I am a statistician I am a whiz at high math.  The graph above from a survey by Northeastern University seems to explain why.  The vast majority of Americans do not use any math above fractions (an estimated 78% or 1-22% which is the opposite of the any more advanced […]