Comments on: Absurdistan Weekend Update #6: Liberal Lunacy Everywhere We Look http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ivan Ivanovich http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-72905 Ivan Ivanovich Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:55:46 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/#comment-72905 Maybe his barber is also a phrenologist who feels the bumps on his head and tells him he should be the Fuehrer. Maybe his barber is also a phrenologist who feels the bumps on his head and tells him he should be the Fuehrer.

]]> By: sedonaman http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-72901 sedonaman Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:52:55 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/#comment-72901 Ivan Ivanovich: I suspect that a $400 haircut has $380 worth of snob appeal. Ivan Ivanovich:

I suspect that a $400 haircut has $380 worth of snob appeal.

]]> By: Ivan Ivanovich http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-72900 Ivan Ivanovich Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:29:11 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/#comment-72900 It should be noted that a $400 haircut is 20 times what most people pay (I paid $20 in NY)while $520 for a good pair of shoes is 5 times what common people pay. I also wonder if the shoes were special because of some medical problem with McCain's feet? I wear $200 worth of orthotics inside my shoes and I'm 7 years his junior. Does anyone know the cost of JE's shoes? I can't imagine he shops at the ShoeBarn. It should be noted that a $400 haircut is 20 times what most people pay (I paid $20 in NY)while $520 for a good pair of shoes is 5 times what common people pay. I also wonder if the shoes were special because of some medical problem with McCain’s feet? I wear $200 worth of orthotics inside my shoes and I’m 7 years his junior.

Does anyone know the cost of JE’s shoes? I can’t imagine he shops at the ShoeBarn.

]]> By: sedonaman http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/comment-page-1/#comment-72899 sedonaman Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:56:11 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/03/absurdistan-weekend-update-6-liberal-lunacy-everywhere-we-look/#comment-72899 “...the Baltimore Sun is reporting a miraculous double-digit improvement in the scores of the state’s two worst districts, ... Explanations for the scores range from crediting No Child Left Behind, to the leadership of Advisory Board CEO Alonso, to claims the takeover was premature and would have happened even without state intervention.” There is another possibility that is explained in Chapter 1 of <i>Freakonomics</i> by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: teacher cheating on test scores. With pressure to increase test scores, teachers in Chicago were caught changing the answers on multiple-choice tests. Analysts were able to find the cheating by noting similar patterns of changed answers. What was particularly embarrassing to the schools was some teachers changed right answers to wrong answers. “…the Baltimore Sun is reporting a miraculous double-digit improvement in the scores of the state’s two worst districts, … Explanations for the scores range from crediting No Child Left Behind, to the leadership of Advisory Board CEO Alonso, to claims the takeover was premature and would have happened even without state intervention.”

There is another possibility that is explained in Chapter 1 of Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: teacher cheating on test scores. With pressure to increase test scores, teachers in Chicago were caught changing the answers on multiple-choice tests. Analysts were able to find the cheating by noting similar patterns of changed answers. What was particularly embarrassing to the schools was some teachers changed right answers to wrong answers.

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