Do gun ownership predict homicides taking race into account?
You may have seen a plot like this one: The reader is left to interpret that guns cause homicides. It's correct if we include suicides but it's not true for…
Within vs. between group correlations
Let's think about causality and group-level comparisons. Here I mean any type of group, whether nations, sub-national divisions (states, regions, provinces, communes), religious classifications, races, or any other grouping. Sometimes…
Does school make students kill themselves?
I know, I know. It's fashionable to hate on formal education in the rationalist community. Here's an obligatory Twitter poll: And there's even some push-back in the funny article Why…
Java, even worse than PHP!
I'm taking a course in object orientated programming (OOP) at university. I always hated OOP, it seemed like an overly difficult way to doing the stuff I wanted. Now, the…
PHP sucks
Today I had to work with PHP. I'm making a website to gather survey data because Google Forms cannot do what I need to do, e.g. give the user instant…
Seneca the younger on suicide, letter 70 and 77
Because of their shortity I will replicate them here. Letter 70: "1. After a long space of time I have seen your beloved Pompeii.[1] I was thus brought again face…