As many of you know, I am a doctoral student that is a pastor at a church of 1600+ active members...have been married to my beautiful wife for almost 7 years now and have two boys (2 years old and 3 months old). Occassionally all of this converges in to that perfect moment of chaos. That moment arrived yesterday morning....a Sunday while on the way to church. On a normal Sunday, I leave for church before my family and we take two cars. Because of a repair to one of our vehicles, our family was forced to ride together...meaning getting the boys ready to go early! Mix in a lack of sleep recently (4-6 hours/night due to a doctoral seminar closing in) and an alarm clock not going off properl
Recently I took a trip up to Wake Forest to attend a Statistics course for the EdD program. The course taught me valauble information about identifying a good research topic and the proper way to do research analysis. This week, I ran across an article about a journalist that created a fake story that indicated that eating chocolate can make you lose weight. Below is a link to the article and a brief quote from the author: I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss "Here's a dirty little science secret: If you measure a large number of things about a small number of people, you are almost guaranteed to get a 'statistically significant' result." The article and research was
