The scientific method has been responsible for the most extraordinary improvement in mankind’s standard of living. Since the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, it has been responsible for every major advance in human understanding and technology. The scientific method relies on a positivists worldview, which can be said to value certainty, control, objective reality, and planning. […]
Month: August 2009
3 out of 4 isn’t bad, it’s the government!
Here is how modern economics is played. You need to know this so you know how to protect yourself. Picture 4 groups: government, the middle class, the banks, and the speculators. 3 out of 4 groups have acted badly in the housing meltdown. Consider: 1. Speculators bought houses they couldn’t afford to try to make […]
carbon units fail trade-in value test, offered assisted suicide instead
welcome to Obama-care carbon unit. You will be absorbed, or not, based on your trade -in value. I wonder if the old lady would have qualified as a "cash for clunkers?" Lucianne.com News Forum – HomePage tags: no_tag Cancer Patient Offered Gov’t Suicide Funds But Not Medical Care Canada Free Press, by […]
White House uses Web against Drudge attack – Yahoo! News
Drudge must think he lives in America White House uses Web against Drudge attack – Yahoo! News tags: no_tag WASHINGTON – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private […]
Geithner rails at tax payers
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/geithner-said-to-lose-his-cool-at-regulators-meeting Geithner the Tax Cheat should have threatened to audit their taxes
Exploring the “n-dimensional” space of Narrative Inquiry
I always thought of storytelling as being of 1 kind; I am uncovering that there is something like an “n-dimensional space” of perspectives on story-telling. For instance, on just one dimension: scope. There is a hierarchy of how “complete and of what size” the story is that includes the following categories (arbitrary right now, and of […]
The Many Distinctions of Narrative Inquiry
While conducting a methodological review of narrative inquiry as a technique to create meaning from heaps of data, both qualitative and quantitative it quickly became apparent that narrative inquiry is a much broader and deeper and diversified field than I originally thought. It is such a rich area that it deserves some detail research in […]
The variety of perspectives in narrative inquiry
when I was reviewing my research questions for the qualitative portion of my mixed methods project, I became intrigued by the idea of narrative inquiry as a process to help me make meaning out of the reams of data that I had been accumulating from various cycles of participatory action research with students, faculty, curriculum […]
Traders roundtable: how does position sizing compare to diversification as a risk management tool?
In a recent traders roundtable discussion, our talk came around to a discussion of two different risk management tools: position sizing and portfolio diversification. The question became: which one of these strategies is more effective? The discussion led us to quickly reframe that question into one which said “how do both of these strategies, and […]
Traders Roundtable: Maximum Compounded Return Versus Fear of Drawdown
In a recent traders roundtable discussion on the subject of balancing maximum gain with risk management the question was posed how to reconcile these two issues. A few definitions for the purposes of this essay are in order. First let’s consider maximum compounded return to be defined as a system that is traded at every […]