L. Marcus Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word Such days can be nice, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word Yeah, though it would have been better today if I had finished grading a set of homework papers yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word Think of it as the reason you get a paycheck! ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word think of it as a way to impress the minds of future physicists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word This group are future doctors, nurses, etc., not physicists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word so think of it this way, they will be your aides to health when you are much much older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: The Last Word Meh, like all middle class Americans, I am doomed to a miserable death alone in a squalid dark alley in the rain, being unable afford anything. All those nice health professionals will be one step above me, since a few of them will be in-residence staff for the Chinese billionaires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word Probably true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word ...But what about all that charity we hear so much about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word That's where my one warm meal a day will come from, a plate of soup from some gospel mission down the street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word That and a Bible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word Well, that gets read and interpreted to you as you eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word Oh yeah -- because of the illiteracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word That, and because only those people who are morally bankrupt, lazy, illiterate, stupid, etc., don't receive God's bounty of material success. Ergo, if you're down on your luck, it's your own fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word Ooo, Success Theology! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Re: The Last Word Yeah. That's how you manage to translate greed from being one of the Seven Deadly Sins to being the prime mover of all that's good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Yeah, pretty much on agreement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Three for three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Only success is relative. So that puts to rest their theology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Well, I think it's more pernicious than that; it seems that in that picture, success is judged by how miserable you make other people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Pernicious anaemia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word BTW, which statistics were you bemoaning in the Non Sequitur thread (since it is clearly improper to have a follow-up discussion there)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Nah, we're not there yet. It's this bit we're doing this week on EBM, how to read academical articles (we're critiquing a doozy from the NEJM) and where to find them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word Mucking about with survival curves and incidence rates was a bunch of what I did when I was down at the cancer research center. Epidemiology is such fun stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: The Last Word I note the lack of a smilie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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