Fish Story
This winter I volunteered with our local Watershed Council to analyze data on growth rates of cutthroat trout. Estimating growth of...
Compared to What?
Image from: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00410.htm When I applied to graduate school, I had to take the Miller Analogies Test....
The Statistical Basis of Compassion
In the March 2016 issue of Educational Researcher, Gene Glass summarizes decades of meta-analyses on a variety of educational approaches....
Bielefeldt’s Inverse Complexity Function
I am a complexiphile. (“Complexivist” is more accurate, but that term has already been appropriated for other use.) I believe almost...
Bielefeldt's Caveat of Paradoxical Instruction
In 1968, when I was a student at Reed College, the institution had just installed a small nuclear reactor for research. It was housed in...
Community Organization and Terror
My state is in the throes of an armed standoff at a federal wildlife refuge over management of public lands. The occupied facility lies...
