August 27th, 2004 at 3:36 am
Got a little bit more gristle this week from the Standard/Advocate’s opinion page (link dead).
File this under “not having an opinion while needing something to say.” A (co-opted? / copied? / borrowed?) editorial (link dead) from the Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., regarding the newly enacted overtime legislation, offers this gem of advice regarding the new overtime changes: “Congress should carefully watch this grand experiment. If the overtime rules turn out only to benefit a small group of employees and hurt many more, lawmakers must quickly fix the flaws in the regulations.” Besides the obvious unrealistic expectation about Congressional agility, the editor fails to even guess whether these rules are good or bad. I suppose nowadays we save true opinion for the front page of the New York Times.
Since we’re filing, let’s put this one, “U.S. not all that divided,” under “you can do anything when you manipulate the sample size”. Statistics are fun, aren’t they? One of these days, I might find a more eloquent way to say this — the original source for this thought comes from Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell — when performing operations on statistics, one often subtracts too much data in the search for the desired datum.
Finally, I got a chuckle out of “Licking County Drivers Stink”. Given my experiences with Beltway 8 in Houston and certain sections of I-20 near Dallas, I’m rather impressed that we’re only breaking the speed limit by 10 miles per hour. Of course, anyone in Louisiana knows that traffic lights are merely a suggestion, and that signaling your turn is bad form. In McAllen, TX, though, the traffic law enforcement is sufficiently persnickety; you can be pulled over for not signaling quickly enough for a lane change.
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