The younger daughter isn't feeling well today, so the daughters are going to stay indoors and watch a movie. How do we determine which movie is going to be watched ( Read more... )

How well off are we, in aggregate? It’s an impossibly complicated, possibly unanswerable, question ( Read more... )

candid told me I should have done the voting data analysis as a logistic regression, which was an excellent point. So I spent some of my "copious free time" re-learning how that works, and then re-parsed the NES survey data ( Read more... )

Obama : 255 base ( Read more... )

The American National Election Studies is a collaboration between the U of Michigan and Stanford. They do polling of individuals during election years, asking them various questions about their political views, views of candidates, and demographics data. They make the full dataset available for download, so one can do data analysis ( Read more... )

Couple nights ago, I was kid-watching so Sister and Wife could have a "wild night" out on the town. Four kids is usually easier than two, because with two, I am mainly the entertainment. With four, I am occasional referee ( Read more... )

My sister is visiting this week, so we also get Niece and Nephew, about the same age as the Daughters. Thick as thieves, the four of them ( Read more... )

Thursday was an scheduled off day, and I missed Friday ( Read more... )

I missed Tuesday. My excuse is that I barely had enough time to slip away for "dinner" with the family, which consisted of snuggling a bit with the daughter who had an ear infection and coloring for 10 minutes with the one who did not ( Read more... )

This week, I'm following the exercise regimen spelled out here ( Read more... )