TheA_Bomb Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 A Professor SLU Sign Guy Study, was quoted by popular stat site Fivethirtyeight http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-party-that-loses-this-year-could-still-win-a-big-consolation-prize/ It links to an earlier Vox article on his study http://www.vox.com/2016/9/5/12712932/american-state-government-federalism I didn't read these cause I know all academics are liberals so I'm pretty sure it's anti-American Anyways, way to go Sign Guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I was trying to figure out how I possibly missed this -- I read FiveThirtyEight daily -- and then it occurred to me that I wouldn't recognize "political scientist Steven Rogers" if I passed him on the street, let alone had lunch with him. (But I agree with A_Bomb: Way to go, Sign Guy!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zink Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Just now, bonwich said: I was trying to figure out how I possibly missed this -- I read FiveThirtyEight daily -- and then it occurred to me that I wouldn't recognize "political scientist Steven Rogers" if I passed him on the street, let alone had lunch with him. (But I agree with A_Bomb: Way to go, Sign Guy!) Likewise! Very cool though. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 This is awesome! Nice work, @SluSignGuy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills71 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Congrats and continuing Success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 2 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said: I didn't read these cause I know all academics are liberals so I'm pretty sure it's anti-American The Vox article is titled: "This study shows American federalism is a total joke" [I did not pick the title] But pretty much one of the best things an adviser said to me is that I have taken statistics classes at GW, Princeton, and Vanderbilt, and my research can be explained by a line graph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Great work Steve!!! Do you get insulted when someone cites you and fails to list you as Dr. or PHD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 1 hour ago, thetorch said: Great work Steve!!! Do you get insulted when someone cites you and fails to list you as Dr. or PHD? I actually hate the Dr. title. At SLU they force us to have our nameplate outside of our office have "Dr. Rogers." If I get tenure at SLU, that Dr. is coming down the first day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 So Doc what percentage chance do you give Trump? Who controls the Senate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Give Trump a 4% chance of winning. Democrats taking the Senate....55%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 9 hours ago, SluSignGuy said: I actually hate the Dr. title. At SLU they force us to have our nameplate outside of our office have "Dr. Rogers." If I get tenure at SLU, that Dr. is coming down the first day. Good for you. You must be one of those people that do not feel the need to have all of their diplomas framed and in display at their offices. That, as far as I see it, indicates your knowledge that what you are is what is inside your brain and how you use it, not framed diplomas or "Dr." designations on your door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 14 hours ago, SluSignGuy said: I actually hate the Dr. title. At SLU they force us to have our nameplate outside of our office have "Dr. Rogers." If I get tenure at SLU, that Dr. is coming down the first day. All the SLU guys I had or knew, including my own dear pops, introduced themselves as "Dr." When I got to Wisconsin, the Nobel Prize-winner I had for econometrics introduced himself as "Art." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 6 hours ago, Old guy said: Good for you. You must be one of those people that do not feel the need to have all of their diplomas framed and in display at their offices. I concede my PhD diploma is hung in my home office above my desk. 12 minutes ago, bonwich said: All the SLU guys I had or knew, including my own dear pops, introduced themselves as "Dr." When I got to Wisconsin, the Nobel Prize-winner I had for econometrics introduced himself as "Art." If I could go by my first name with students I would. I introduce myself as Steve Rogers. Undergraduates call me Professor Rogers (or Doctor....but after they take a class with me, they generally drop the Dr.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 At your home office, not at work? You must have a framed diploma, those are hard to put into a safe deposit box so you might as well hang them somewhere. I do not think that negates my prior comment, after all home offices are usually cluttered messy places. They are not a place where you would expect to impress people with your degrees. Mine never got framed so they are entirely out of the way tucked inside a box in the bank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 1 hour ago, SluSignGuy said: I concede my PhD diploma is hung in my home office above my desk. If I could go by my first name with students I would. I introduce myself as Steve Rogers. Undergraduates call me Professor Rogers (or Doctor....but after they take a class with me, they generally drop the Dr.) It's a little easier for me. I introduce myself simply as Joe and do a shtick about how Professor Bonwich was my father and earned the title. Then I simply answer "Who?" whenever they call me Professor in class. (I do, however, encourage them to call the Schlafly guy "Professor Kopman" when he guest-lectures on beer, mainly because he gets such a kick out of it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 He's ba-aack. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/all-politics-is-national/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 Very interesting stuff Bonwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted November 7, 2016 Author Share Posted November 7, 2016 56 minutes ago, bonwich said: He's ba-aack. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/all-politics-is-national/ BOOM! Political Scientist at St. Louis University cited again on Fivethirtyeight! Raising the Profile of my SLU Poli Sci BA. They love him because he summarized his work into that graph. People like graphical representations and Nate Silver et al love em. Sign Guy couldn't make a sign with uniform lettering just a few years ago now his graphs are on national publications. Keep it up and he might become more famous than that one other Steven Rogers the one with the shield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 14 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said: Sign Guy couldn't make a sign with uniform lettering just a few years ago now his graphs are on national publications. Ooo...Zing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Majerus Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 When I went thru my folks stuff for the last time, I found my diploma from Miss Fairbank's Nursery School - late 1940's. It is framed now in my home office with a band of cartoon characters of that era surrounding the diploma details. I have a lot of fun pointing it out to visitors. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 3 minutes ago, Major Majerus said: When I went thru my folks stuff for the last time, I found my diploma from Miss Fairbank's Nursery School - late 1940's. It is framed now in my home office with a band of cartoon characters of that era surrounding the diploma details. I have a lot of fun pointing it out to visitors. ? I never got a diploma for kindergarten, let alone nursery school. And they say millennials are the participation trophy generation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJumpUp Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 On 11/3/2016 at 0:28 AM, SluSignGuy said: Give Trump a 4% chance of winning. Democrats taking the Senate....55%. Doc, what percentage do you give SLU of landing Jeremiah Tilmon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I'll wait to hear the streets talk on that one. (I am just glad I gave Trump a positive percentage.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Do not beat yourself down about this Steve, lots of other people were also wrong. This was a case where the numbers made no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soderball Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 On 11/9/2016 at 1:19 PM, SluSignGuy said: I'll wait to hear the streets talk on that one. (I am just glad I gave Trump a positive percentage.) was hard to foresee the rapid flip in the upper midwest. HRC didnt even necessarily need FL OH and NC.. the polling data was NOT accurate in the three states that decided it. 'truthiness' and the gut were the only way to see the Trump rust belt scenario as plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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