<div dir="ltr">Of course it was, talk about cart before the horse. I still work with Science teachers who buy the whole long wavelength EMF causes cancer 'hypothesis'. And if it does let's just throw out 20th century Physics and replace it with Holistic Phlogiston Aether Theory. Activation Energy anybody? <br>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">E=hf </span>?<div><br></div><div>Grumpily,</div><div><br></div><div>Laurie </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Laurie Savage<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2015 at 14:23, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Actually, it was "<a href="https://xkcd.com/925/" target="_blank">Cancer </a></div><a href="https://xkcd.com/925/" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>causes cell phones</a>", but yes, it was great for Informatics. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I included that cartoon in one of my Informatics textbook chapters, but I'm not sure if Cengage ended up agreeing to pay to license it. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">But (knowing my editor is a member of this list - </font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Hi e!</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">) I'll not go into details about permissions.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Cheers</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Mark </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2015 at 14:08, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My favourite weird question was "On a scale of 1 to 5, what is your favorite number?" I'm guessing he will be able to use these data to create a hypothesis like "<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>Mobile phones cause brain tumours" (an earlier sketch of his).<div><br></div><div>Laurie </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Laurie Savage<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2015 at 12:54, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, data miners</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Next year, the Informatics kids will be expected to gather authentic data for their MMOS (multimodal online solution).</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><a>Today's XKCD</a> includes a Google survey to find 'weird correlations'. </div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">One question asks how good a speller you are on a scale from 1 to 5.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Quite cunningly, another question asks you which of these words you know - and there's a list of about 20 obscure words... some of which I strongly suspect do not exist.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Fakers or liars will probably indicate they 'know' some words that are known to not exist, thereby giving a self-diagnosis of the honesty of their answers.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I thought it was quite a clever method of validating survey data.</div><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Try it yourself - it's fun.</div><div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><a href="http://xkcd.com/1572/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/1572/</a><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lucida,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant:small-caps;text-align:center"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div>Mark Kelly<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br></font></span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div></span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. (Jack Handey)</font></div></font></span><span class=""><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZNy1KTlhHdGVINWc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZclhYdUpxelZmcmx3amRrYjM1d01mdlJ5WURNPQ"><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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