December 5th, 2018 at 12:00 PM ^
Do scientific nerds even know who Brady Hoke is?
December 5th, 2018 at 12:05 PM ^
I'm going to neg myself for being too judgmental on the whole "scientific nerds" thing.
I am sitting here doing data frequency distributions for insurance claims fraud detection as I type this.
Yeah, that's so much higher up the "cool" food chain.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
What is the cheapest Michigan carrier for auto rates btw? Suburbs and all the typical low risk checks here...Farmers is jacking my rates up 20% a year and I have no claims! Frankenmuth insurance looks good from what I seen...anyone else you can recommend for 50s age bracket?
December 5th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
It's medical fraud.
No joke, we caught a practice trying to defraud the government $100M+
Seriously?
Protip: If you are willing to be just a little bit greedy, you can get away with it forever.
Like $1M is not enough? You deserve to be caught.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
Frequency reports are for beginner nerds
December 5th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
Frequency reports are for beginner nerds
December 5th, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^
Yeah, I didn't even understand the first paragraph in the chapter in the picture.
I quit at "Brady Hoke."
December 5th, 2018 at 12:21 PM ^
Oh wtf you never took statistics in college?
December 5th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
Took, yes. Retained? Only bits and pieces, as needed.
Over time, you get extremely deep in whatever you have to do day to day to support your work, and astonishingly ignorant about everything else.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:02 PM ^
Yep.
I probably use and/or retain 10% of what I learned in college on the job.
I probably use and/or have learned 90% of what I need to do my job in the real world.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^
Username checks out.
The STIG is taught nowhere, nor is it intuitive. In fact, it's just a great big tangle of slop trying to be everything to everyone for anything that anyone needs to secure - as long as someone's already seen it.
If it hasn't been seen yet, it's not in the STIG...
December 5th, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
I remember writing an essay in statistics class on the proper and improper uses of the Chi-squared test.
Now I don't remember what that even is.
But ask me a question on the Jaro–Winkler and Levenshtein distance functions in SAS, and I'll melt your poor damn ear for two hours.
We become idiot savants to stay gainfully employed.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but scientific research is a hell of a lot sexier than insurance.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:03 PM ^
Shit, that is bad news.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:03 PM ^
Signed Howard Wolowitz.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:01 PM ^
I'm pretty sure the word "epistemic" has never appeared in an 11W discussion. Suck it, OSU.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:16 PM ^
"Ep...iz...tem...ic?"
"That's not funny, man...I've never even LOOKED at another guy..."
December 5th, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^
When people talk about "Michigan Arrogance", these types of comments are of what they speak.
December 5th, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^
Well then "they" must be jealous
December 5th, 2018 at 5:09 PM ^
The Michigan Difference, sir.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
That book probably sounds like a clap when you shut it...
December 5th, 2018 at 12:42 PM ^
+1 underrated
December 5th, 2018 at 12:06 PM ^
I extrapolate that the reading material is not a late night thriller
December 5th, 2018 at 12:07 PM ^
10/10
December 5th, 2018 at 12:11 PM ^
I bet we could enlist The_Knowledge to take care of the "Dealing with a Lack of Knowledge" part of the title of chapter 12.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
This isn't surprising, considering this about the author, Ryan McClarren:
"While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan he won three awards for creative writing."
It's a certainty that McClarren was familiar with MGoBlog.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
I'd say he was at least somewhat aware
December 5th, 2018 at 12:27 PM ^
I am glad that we got points working just in time for this comment and yeah the author is a reader because I've emailed with him before
December 5th, 2018 at 12:30 PM ^
Sounds like a fun guy.
But tell him that Mike Leach quotes are where it's at.
December 5th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
Right. If he's a real aerospace/CFB baller, then CJK5H is hidden in a figure somewhere.
Looks like a cool book.
December 5th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
This needs to happen.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
Nice find OP!
Also, I clicked the link and was reminded how freaking expensive textbooks are in college.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:22 PM ^
College textbooks are a SCAM...who authors a book with 28 revisions except for force people to buy this overpriced shit! Can't help but wonder if profs or schools get a kickback.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
Let me help you with this (Wife does this line of work)
It is the publishers that are scamming you. In some cases professors too (forcing you to buy their self-authored book). The publisher is the one that “changes” the book by switching the chapter arrangement around and some problems in the back of the book. Then, of course, they will no longer publish the previous edition. The bookstore can no longer buy the previous edition to sell to you, so the professor can’t use it.
The bookstore and the university do get a cut, but it’s not what you think. The bookstore wants to keep reselling that used book at a much lower price because now they’re making a crap ton of profit, and you save a bunch if money. There’s no really reason that $200 stats book can’t be $80 used. The bookstore makes more from that $80 than the new $200 one. Don’t get be started on rentals. Those are even better for both parties.
But, trust me, it’s the publishers. They control everything.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
The bookstore can no longer buy the previous edition to sell to you, so the professor can’t use it.
Why not though?
I had a prof who pointed out what the differences were in the last several editions of the textbook he used, and said we could use any one of them if we wanted.
I bought a used edition that was like 3 edits old from a guy I knew that was a couple of years older than me. Saved an almost life-changing amount of money for me at the time.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
They can’t use it because they can’t adopt it. (Adopting is the process of the prof telling the bookstore what book they will use, which they are contractually obligated to do). In some cases you can, and in some cases the bookstore can find copies out there, but there’s no guarantees and the bookstore has a thousand other courses to order for, not just yours. So this extremely time consuming task is very difficult.
Edit: that’s not to say the student can’t use it. Like you say, approach the professor and find out. I’m talking strictly from the bookstore side. The professor has to declare the official book that will be used this semester. If you decide to get an older one, by all means go for it. Sometimes that’s ok. Others, not so much.
December 5th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
Yeah, he still used an "official" textbook that the bookstore carried for $$$. But he also showed us specifically where the old editions of it were "different" so that we could by them used if we wanted.
He probably did something wrong by doing that, but I'm old so he's probably dead.
Looks like he got away with it.
Suck it, 1980's textbook publisher.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:43 PM ^
Ungh this was the worst when I was in history in the early aughts. A lot of mine used to have an exclusive deal with Shaman Drum. The last straw for me was when I went to go buy the books I would need for history of witchcraft and my bill was going to be $580.
By the end of college I was grits poor and making friends in every class so I could share their books. Only very late did I discover the "new" editions weren't actually necessary. I got the two main textbooks on British History for $10 each in Ypsi that still had their $60 Shaman Drum stickers under the new barcodes.
December 5th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
I'm staring at a $380 doorstop right now in my home office thanks to European History in the Early 20th Century textbook
Edited to say it was $380 in 2003...today that doorstop would cost $519.34 adjusted for inflation.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
"history of witchcraft"
What a surprise that a book on witchcraft was sold at a place named after a shaman's percussion instrument.
December 5th, 2018 at 2:48 PM ^
funny, the animated skeleton chiming in about a book on witchcraft. avatar checks out, mr. necromancer. bet you wrote book and are hip bones deep in money.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
My poetry prof made us buy all of our books from Shaman Drum because he thought they were virtuous unlike the "corporate" book stores. It is not a good day when one realizes he has been scammed by poets.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
I had a History prof who asked us to buy 20 books from Shaman Drum. That semester, I learned that you can wait until a significant reading assignment or exam depends on that book, then buy it. I ended up with 5 out of the 20.
My English class on fantasy/sci fi writing, I had to buy all 20+. I'll never get back the hours that I spent reading Orlando.
December 5th, 2018 at 1:29 PM ^
"who authors a book with 28 revisions except for force people to buy this overpriced shit!"
Answer: Scientology!
December 5th, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
Welcome to USA, baby!
One year of book for my wife's master degree at UM... Costed me way more than what I spent from my first grad up to my last year of master degree's books, tuitions and health insurance.
Yep - France is such a stupid socialist country :).
December 5th, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
One year of books for a masters degree in the United States is enough for a down payment on a decent car, perhaps even a home in an area in the process of being gentrified (but not fully gentrified).
December 5th, 2018 at 12:30 PM ^
I keep staring at the picture of that chapter intro and it makes me so happy. Thanks for sharing, OP.
December 5th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
Hahahaha, this is amazing. Mostly in part because of the quote, but also due to the fact that my company licenses a ton of Springer content. Time to look this one up on the platform.
December 5th, 2018 at 5:02 PM ^
Is Brady Hoke that well known to the academic community that he can be cited without any explanatory line ("Brady Hoke, college football coach")?