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Chris Mooney is host of the Point of Inquiry podcast and the author of three books, The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America. He was recently seen on MSNBC's "The Last Word" discussing "The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science," and recently wrote for The American Prospect magazine about how the reality-based community is moving to the left.
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September 16th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Hah! But this curve doesn’t quite simulate a normal distribution… unless the statistician in question whom you might rely upon for advice is one Bill Dembski!
September 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
There’s a ready solution: eliminate the distractions. It requires a certain anti-social doggedness, but if you can tell the rest of the world to go to hell and concentrate on what YOU need to do, you really can boost the left half of that curve. In the early years of my marriage, I had a rule: if my office door is closed, do NOT knock unless it’s an emergency. It was rather nasty on my part, but it permitted me to concentrate on getting work done, and I was phenomenally productive during that time.
Of course, living in the country helps, too.