zowel hard als onrechtvaardig! het zou verboden moeten zijn! Geen AMKG de volgende 3 weken! En waar zit Anton? Kan hij het niet overnemen? Is hij definitief uitgewezen naar Transsylvanië? Ach Anton, wobistubleve....
As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope the voyage is a long one. May there be many a summer morning when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you are old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you would not have set out. She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
C. Kavafis (Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard)
en voor vandaag een kleine waarschuwing voor de niet statistici: de Paradox van Simpsons
In probability and statistics, Simpson's paradox (or the Yule-Simpson effect) is a paradox in which a correlation (trend) present in different groups is reversed when the groups are combined. This result is often encountered in social-science and medical-science statistics, and it occurs when frequency data are hastily given causal interpretations. Simpson's Paradox disappears when causal relations are brought into consideration. One of the best known real life examples of Simpson's paradox occurred when the University of California, Berkeley was sued for bias against women who had applied for admission to graduate schools there. The admission figures for the fall of 1973 showed that men applying were more likely than women to be admitted, and the difference was so large that it was unlikely to be due to chance. Applicants Admitted Men 8442 44% Women 4321 35%
However when examining the individual departments, it was found that no department was significantly biased against women. In fact, most departments had a "small but statistically significant bias in favor of women". These are for instance the data from the six largest departments. Department Men Women Applicants Admitted Applicants Admitted A 825 62% 108 82% B 560 63% 25 68% C 325 37% 593 34% D 417 33% 375 35% E 191 28% 393 24% F 272 6% 341 7%
The research paper by Bickel, et al. concluded that women tended to apply to competitive departments with low rates of admission even among qualified applicants (such as in the English Department), whereas men tended to apply to less-competitive departments with high rates of admission among the qualified applicants (such as in engineering and chemistry).
Breaking News!!! ( http://www.standby.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20110601_150 ) "Vrouwen nemen te veel kleren mee op vakantie, mannen te weinig. Dat blijkt uit een enquête van een Brits reisagentschap.
Van alle 1.300 respondenten die het voorbije jaar een week op vakantie gingen, nam de meerderheid van de mannen slechts drie onderbroeken mee in hun koffer. Ruim 37 procent van hen gaat er namelijk van uit dat ze tijdens een zevendaagse trip meestal in hun zwembroek zullen rondlopen. Een kleine 12 procent geeft toe dat ze hun onderbroeken wassen op vakantie. Dames nemen gemiddeld tien slipjes mee.
De resultaten van deze enquête tonen ook aan dat 98 procent van de mannen al hun meegenomen kleren effectief dragen. Dames daarentegen proppen hun valies vol, maar trekken slechts 61 procent van de ingepakte kleding aan. Daarnaast beweert bijna de helft van de ondervraagde vrouwen dat ze extra kleren hebben gekocht op hun vakantiebestemming, terwijl slechts 7 procent van de mannen niet aan de verleiding kon weerstaan om te shoppen."
10 opmerkingen:
zowel hard als onrechtvaardig! het zou verboden moeten zijn! Geen AMKG de volgende 3 weken! En waar zit Anton? Kan hij het niet overnemen?
Is hij definitief uitgewezen naar Transsylvanië? Ach Anton, wobistubleve....
Anton heeft nog negentien jaar stenen hakken te goed in de penitentiaire instelling van Sbjrov-Przlwitski. Ook hard en onrechtvaardig.
waarmee ga ik mij die drie weken in hemelsnaam onledig houden?
Onze uitgebreide Zuid-Oost Aziatische lezerschare wordt de komende drie weken persoonlijk van een dagelijks bericht voorzien.
Daar gaat mijn ochtendritueel. Egoïst.
Om de monotonie te verbreken: Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
C. Kavafis
(Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard)
en voor vandaag een kleine waarschuwing voor de niet statistici: de Paradox van Simpsons
In probability and statistics, Simpson's paradox (or the Yule-Simpson effect) is a paradox in which a correlation (trend) present in different groups is reversed when the groups are combined. This result is often encountered in social-science and medical-science statistics, and it occurs when frequency data are hastily given causal interpretations.
Simpson's Paradox disappears when causal relations are brought into consideration.
One of the best known real life examples of Simpson's paradox occurred when the University of California, Berkeley was sued for bias against women who had applied for admission to graduate schools there. The admission figures for the fall of 1973 showed that men applying were more likely than women to be admitted, and the difference was so large that it was unlikely to be due to chance.
Applicants Admitted
Men 8442 44%
Women 4321 35%
However when examining the individual departments, it was found that no department was significantly biased against women. In fact, most departments had a "small but statistically significant bias in favor of women". These are for instance the data from the six largest departments.
Department Men Women
Applicants Admitted Applicants Admitted
A 825 62% 108 82%
B 560 63% 25 68%
C 325 37% 593 34%
D 417 33% 375 35%
E 191 28% 393 24%
F 272 6% 341 7%
The research paper by Bickel, et al. concluded that women tended to apply to competitive departments with low rates of admission even among qualified applicants (such as in the English Department), whereas men tended to apply to less-competitive departments with high rates of admission among the qualified applicants (such as in engineering and chemistry).
waar is die AMKG als de komkommertijd ons in z'n wurggreep dreigt te krijgen?
Breaking News!!! ( http://www.standby.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20110601_150 )
"Vrouwen nemen te veel kleren mee op vakantie, mannen te weinig. Dat blijkt uit een enquête van een Brits reisagentschap.
Van alle 1.300 respondenten die het voorbije jaar een week op vakantie gingen, nam de meerderheid van de mannen slechts drie onderbroeken mee in hun koffer. Ruim 37 procent van hen gaat er namelijk van uit dat ze tijdens een zevendaagse trip meestal in hun zwembroek zullen rondlopen. Een kleine 12 procent geeft toe dat ze hun onderbroeken wassen op vakantie. Dames nemen gemiddeld tien slipjes mee.
De resultaten van deze enquête tonen ook aan dat 98 procent van de mannen al hun meegenomen kleren effectief dragen. Dames daarentegen proppen hun valies vol, maar trekken slechts 61 procent van de ingepakte kleding aan. Daarnaast beweert bijna de helft van de ondervraagde vrouwen dat ze extra kleren hebben gekocht op hun vakantiebestemming, terwijl slechts 7 procent van de mannen niet aan de verleiding kon weerstaan om te shoppen."
Als dat maar goed afloopt...
Hoe zou het nu met Anton gesteld zijn?
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