This is a follow up to my previous post
I received another suspicious text message about Ask Mozoot the other night. The next morning, I checked my AT&T account and there was another $9.99 charge for Ask Mozoot. I called AT&T again and asked what was going on. It turns out that purchase blocking is available for [...]
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13 Nov 2009
Follow-up on Ask Mozoot
14 Oct 2009
Shady Text Messaging Services called Mozoot
Examining my mobile phone bill today, I saw a suspicious charge called “Ask Mozoot Alerts” under the Mobile Purchases & Downloads: Communication Charges section.
Somehow I was signed up for (I use passive voice because I do not recall or know if this was there was an action on my part that precipitated this) a text messaging service [...]
9 Mar 2009
Follow Up to SPSS Woes
I figured what was going on with the inaccurate scatter plot from the Chart Builder. For some reason, the variables were being treated as Nominal, despite the variable view showing them as Scale!
This may be an artifact of an import from SAS, but the Legacy Dialogs and Descriptives treat both variables as if they are [...]
17 Nov 2008
10,000 Hours (Yeah, right, Malcolm!)
Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers makes the audacious claim that 10,000 hours of practice is the magic number for obtaining expertise (from Daring Fireball)
Having done a fair amount of reading on expertise (though it is not my research area), I can say the 10,000 hours figure for expertise attainment is arbitrary and quite problematic. Psychological [...]