81. Fuzzy Math Returns October 7, 2001. fuzzy math Returns. By PAUL KRUGMAN. ostterror nervesaside, what mainly ails the US economy is too much of a good thing. http://www.mines.edu/students/a/alombard/Krugman_Fuzzymath.htm

October 7, 2001 Fuzzy Math Returns By PAUL KRUGMAN ost-terror nerves aside, what mainly ails the U.S. economy is too much of a good thing. During the bubble years businesses overspent on capital equipment; the resulting overhang of excess capacity is a drag on investment, and hence a drag on the economy as a whole. In time this overhang will be worked off. Meanwhile, economic policy should encourage other spending to offset the temporary slump in business investment. Low interest rates, which promote spending on housing and other durable goods, are the main answer. But it seems inevitable that there will also be a fiscal stimulus package. That package should include only measures that really will promote spending now, when the economy needs it. It shouldn't include anything that worsens the long-run budget position more than is necessary, or anything that looks like "hitchhiking," exploiting the short-run difficulties of the economy to pursue unrelated long-run goals. Unfortunately, the Bush administration has just taken a big step away from those principles. Until late last week it looked as if much of any stimulus package would consist of increased government spending to rebuild New York, to pay for military operations and to provide unemployment benefits. This would put money into the economy in a clearly temporary way.

82. Fuzzy Math, Fuzzy Reading, Fuzzy Science And Helter-Skelter ID Bar, Volume I, Number 3, March, 2003, © 2003, Scott Thompson,all rights reserved. This article may be emailed to individuals http://nochildleft.com/2003/mar03leverage.html

Volume I, Number 3, March, 2003 Scott Thompson Scott Thompson for information. Children Get Left Behind When High Stakes Are Confused With High Leverage by Scott Thompson about the author We need to take both a deeper and longer view and ask, Where will an approach to educational accountability that is tied to annual standardized testing take us? One powerful set of lenses for gaining a deeper perspective on these issues is provided by systems thinking. This way of thinking and taking action has been evolving over many decades, but it reached its widest audience with the 1990 publication of The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. Shifting the Burden Among the systems thinking tools are systems archetypes, which are patterns of counterproductive organizational behavior that are repeated in diverse contexts. Because these patterns play out under the surface, they are seldom recognized, which essentially dooms people and organizations to blindly repeat them. Systems theorists have identified at least a dozen systems archetypes. Daniel Kim, publisher of The Systems Thinker, uses an aspect of the Helen Keller story to illustrate this archetype.

83. Saturday Night You: George Dubya's Fuzzy Math George Dubya's fuzzy math written by Duane Bertelsen SOUND AUTOMOBILE ENGINEGEORGE BUSH , DICK CHENEY, AND CONDELEEZA RICE ARE TRAVELING TOGETHER. http://snlyou.jt.org/archives/01ytarareid/bush.phtml

George Dubya's Fuzzy Math written by: Duane Bertelsen SOUND: AUTOMOBILE ENGINE GEORGE BUSH , DICK CHENEY, AND CONDELEEZA RICE ARE TRAVELING TOGETHER. BUSH IS DRIVING, CHENEY IS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT, AND CONDELEEZA RICE IS IN THE BACK SEAT. George W. Bush : (SQUINTING IN DEEP THOUGHT) I know how we can save the taxpayers some money. Dick Cheney : How? George W. Bush : There’s a cheap motel just up ahead. We'll pull in there for the night. Condeleeza Rice : Do you expect me to stay is some cheap flea bag? Dick Cheney : (WITH HIS RIGHT LOWER LIP DROPPING AND A LECHEROUS LOOK ON HIS FACE) Shut up! We're saving the taxpayers money! BUSH WALKS UP TO THE MOTEL DESK WITH CHENEY AND RICE CLOSE BEHIND. George W. Bush : How much are your rooms? Clerk : I can let you all stay in the same room for $30. CONDELEEZA RICE LOOKS HORRIFIED, CHENEY GRABS HER AND PUTS HIS HAND OVER HER MOUTH AS THEY STRUGGLE. CHENEY HAS A LECHEROUS LOOK ON HIS FACE. BUSH HAS NO CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON. George W. Bush : We'll take it! BUSH, CHENEY, AND CONDELEEZA RICE ENTER THE ROOM. BUSH LOOKS AROUND AS CHENEY AND RICE ENTER. THERE IS ONLY ONE BED. AGAIN CONDELEEZA RICE TRIES TO ESCAPE BUT CHENEY GRAPPLES HER TO THE FLOOR NOT LETTING HER LEAVE. BUSH IS UNAWARE OF WHAT IS GOING ON.

84. Fuzzy Math fuzzy math By Mark Boslet and Jason Krause Issue Date Feb 26 2001 Critical Pathstumbled on a problem that has plagued the software industry Accounting http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,22293,00.html

IDG.net SERVICES FREE Newsletters Compare Prices CIO ComputerWorld ... PCWorld THE STANDARD ARCHIVE: Columns THE STANDARD ARCHIVE: PRINT EDITION Past Issues SEARCH IT topics at IDG.net E-Business Personal Computing Security Enterprise Fuzzy Math By Mark Boslet and Jason Krause Issue Date: Feb 26 2001 Critical Path stumbled on a problem that has plagued the software industry: Accounting irregularities. The troubles that have beset e-mail software maker Critical Path CPTH ) in the past few weeks sound familiar. The accounting irregularities that drove CEO Doug Hickey and President David Thatcher to resign two weeks ago have become distressingly common in the software business. They stem from the way their products are bought and sold, as well as accounting rules that have become more restrictive. And then there's the occasional instance of outright fraud. Database firms Oracle ORCL ) and Informix IFMX ) have each struggled with this problem in the past decade, while smaller software companies such as Legato and MicroStrategy MSTR The difficulty - and the temptation to fudge the numbers - derives from the nature of software. First, software is much easier to deliver than, say, truck engines; a single keystroke can send programs anywhere in the world.

85. Diversion Structure Use: A Lesson In Fuzzy Math Diversion Structure Use A lesson in fuzzy math By Austin Meyermann Diversionstructures play an important role in storm drain design. http://www.baysaver.com/newsarticles/diversionstructurepr.html

Diversion Structure Use: A lesson in fuzzy math By Austin Meyermann Diversion structures play an important role in storm drain design. They are essential to prevent upstream flooding, resuspension of pollutants, and system blowouts. It is by the very nature of stormwater that these structures are a necessary component for some designs. That being said, diversion structures are increasing in number due to the use of many proprietary treatment systems now seen on stormwater plans. The use of diversion structures in this regard should be viewed with both caution and consideration. What differentiates a proprietary technology from a commodity product? It is that the proprietary technology possesses some patented, and therefore novel, aspect that a comparable commodity product does not. It is hoped that this novel component makes the proprietary technology superior in design. This is the pitch behind many of the new stormwater treatment technologies. Whether it is a screen, a swirl, or a baffle, the manufacturers of these technologies claim that their system does what no previous system could, due to its novel nature. Some of these claims are true and some of these claims are false. One aspect that is the same about all these proprietary technologies is that the customer has to pay for the intellectual properties associated with the system. You may be asking yourself what this has to do with diversion structures. Answer: the proprietary technology has a high dollar value per unit of water treated, less water will be treated by the system than by a commodity product of the same price. Due to the cost of proprietary treatment, upstream diversion structures are used so that a portion of influent flows can be treated while the remaining flow can be bypassed, making the proprietary treatment technology price competitive against other products.

86. Fuzzy Math Fuels Criticism Of Bush Benefits Plan fuzzy math Fuels Criticism Of Bush Benefits Plan. Sounds like one of the candidate'sSocial Security proposals is suffering from a bad case of fuzzy math. http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/articles/art-tanner001026.html

87. Modern Humorist Either try to remember, or take this quiz to find out. You will be graded usingfuzzy math, so just give the best answer, not necessarily the correct one. http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/debates/

How closely were you watching last night's presidential debate? Either try to remember, or take this quiz to find out. You will be graded using fuzzy math, so just give the best answer, not necessarily the correct one. 1. In what kind of receptacle would Gore put Medicare and Social Security? a. iron-clad lockbox b. velvet-clad lockbox c. iron-clad uterus d. Kate Spade handbag 2. According to Gore, how are the children in Dade County schools suffering? a. have to stand up in the back of overcrowded classrooms b. forced to eat lunch at 9:30 a.m. c. subjected to the grating sound of the Spanish language d. required to read John Knowles' "A Separate Peace" When asked about his tax plan, Bush said: a. "Did you say 'plan' or 'flan'? Because I love flan." b. "Man loves his wife. And I appreciate that a lot."

88. The Governor’s Education Budget: More Deficit, Fuzzy Math, More Bureaucracy Publications 1/22/02 The Governor’s Education Budget More Deficit,fuzzy math, More Bureaucracy. Entire Document The Governor http://republican.sen.ca.gov/opeds/99/oped1169.asp

Publications - 1/22/02 The Governor’s Education Budget: More Deficit, Fuzzy Math, More Bureaucracy Entire Document: The Governor’s Education Budget: More Deficit, Fuzzy Math, More Bureaucracy (pdf) Prepared by the Senate Republican Fiscal Office The Governor proposes funding K-14 education under Prop. 98 at the minimum level permitted by law. Because a primary assumption underlying the Administration’s proposed Prop. 98 funding level may be more bleak than is actually the case, the Prop. 98 guarantee is likely to increase at the May Revision, creating perhaps as much as $1 billion in additional pressure on the General Fund.

89. Bush - Gore Debate: Money - Taxes And The Surplus referred to Bush's plan as a tax cut for the wealthy. Bush repeatedly accusedGore of basing that criticism on phony numbers and Washingtonfuzzy math. . http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa100600a.htm

zfp=-1 About U.S. Gov Info/Resources Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting U.S. Gov Info/Resources with Robert Longley Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS War on Terrorism – Daily Updates Money to Start a Small Business? Unclaimed Property Search ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Bush- Gore Debate: Money Part 1: Taxes and the Surplus More of this Feature Part 2: Health Care Part 3: Education Part 4: Social Security Part 5: Transcript Join The Discussion "Okay, who won and why?" AB-USGOVINFO Related Resources Do the Fuzzy Math! 3rd Parties Not Found Election 2000 Presidential Straw Poll From Other Guides The Debate Stunk The "Jacks" Award Abortion in the Debate Women's Issues ... A Private Party? Elsewhere On The Web Presidential Debates Debating Our Destiny Dateline: 10/04/00 The money was flying, rather

90. Fuzzy Math - Wednesday Mar. 20, 2002 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat fuzzy math. Headline Photo Caitlin Hall. By Caitlin Hall Arizona DailyWildcat Wednesday Mar. 20, 2002 The past is getting closer. http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/95/119/03_3.html

FEEDBACK Write a letter to the Editor Contact the Daily Wildcat staff ... Send feedback to the web designers AZ STUDENT MEDIA Arizona Student Media info... Daily Wildcat staff alumni... TV3 - student tv... ... KAMP - student radio... Fuzzy math Caitlin Hall By Caitlin Hall Arizona Daily Wildcat Wednesday Mar. 20, 2002 The past is getting closer. For a couple of weeks in September, it seemed that the timbre of American politics had changed drastically. However, the surreal bipartisanship brought on by Sept.11 was not an enduring phenomenon; six months later, it has already faded to a distant memory. In its place, we have experienced a return to the issues that defined the 2000 presidential race - tax cuts, debt, Supreme Court nominations and Medicare. The problem is, election-year rhetoric took its toll the first time around, and this time the issues feel a little stale. It's too bad; there's a reason they were such prominent issues during the campaigns. Though everyone got tired of hearing Al Gore whine about "the top 1 percent," he was right. Just look at the tax cuts in order this year - they are undeniably biased toward the economic elite. Look at the scary judicial nominee - Charles W. Pickering - who was barely rejected last week by the Senate Judicial committee. The election-year issue that has had the greatest relevance to post-Sept. 11 politics, however, is one that was only implied during the debates - deficit spending. At the outset of his campaign, Bush claimed that his proposed budget would run a deficit only if something unexpected transpired - as if that could happen in four years as leader of the free world - something like a major catastrophe, war or recession. As fate would have it, all three occurred.

91. Thomas Sowell Mr. Sowell's Fuzzy Math: Nantucket Campfire Mr. Sowell's fuzzy math Thomas Sowell Nantucket Campfire Thomas Sowell OtherNantucket Live Chats If ye would like to moderate the Thomas Sowell Nantucket http://businessphilosophy.com/business/ThomasSowellbusiness/cas/4.html

Mr. Sowell's Fuzzy Math: Thomas Sowell Nantucket Campfire If ye would like to moderate the Thomas Sowell Nantucket Campfire, please drop nantucket@nantuckets.com a line. Knowledge and Decisions, The Vision of The Anointed, Conservative Books, thomas sowell Mr. Sowell's Fuzzy Math WRITER S WORD.COM: Open Source CMS][ Free Open Source Blog Hosting ... The World's Largest Literary Cafe Posted by R. Belongie on July 05, 19102 at 09:04:32: Apparently you took your course in fuzzy math from Mr. Bush. By taking a child from a public school, there will not be an automatic $8000.00 saving. One child leaving will not mean less teachers, less administrative, less support personnel, less building or less overhead costs. The only cost saved for one child will be the money spent directly and separately on that child. To save the $8000.00, you would have to voucher a whole lot of children. The $4000.00 spend on a voucher, however, is $4000.00 that could have been spent to improve the public school system. To see the true cost, multiply the number of children vouchered to save an actual $8000.00

92. Is This Math Fuzzy? fuzzy math programs are those that emphasize process over content (and evencorrect answers), and are deficient in mathemat ical breadth and depth. http://edreform.com/parentpower/01august/fuzzymath.html

Previous: How to advocate for your child Next: Understanding your child's mathematic education Home Library Join Parent Power! Helping You Make Sense of Schooling Today Managing Editor Caralee Adams Contributing Editors Onnie Shekerjian Paul Clopton Suite 204 parentpower@edreform.com www.edreform.com Published eight times a year by The Center for Education Reform Bring Parent Power! e-mail subscription www.edreform.com/ parentpower/signup.html F uzzy Math is one of the phrases used to refer to the many newer mathematics programs that are designed around current fads in mathematics educa- tion and often are inadequate word fuzzy is used in the sense of warm and fuzzy or fuzzy thinking, and does not refer to advanced topics like fuzzy logic. Fuzzy Math programs are those that emphasize process over content (and even correct answers), and are deficient in mathemat- ical breadth and depth. Fuzzy Math takes many forms, but here are some of the varieties. Publishers are selling instructional materials, including overheads, soft- ware, dice, spinners, and blocks instead of text- books, which have clear

93. [Cyberia-OT] Gore Pulls Ahead In Florida Recount - Fuzzy Math? CyberiaOT Gore pulls ahead in Florida recount - fuzzy math? DavidBolduc bolduc@smccollough.com Thu, 4 Jan 2001 163844 -0600 http://www.lawlists.net/pipermail/cyberia-ot/2001-January/002082.html

[Cyberia-OT] Gore pulls ahead in Florida recount - Fuzzy Math? David Bolduc bolduc@smccollough.com Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:38:44 -0600 Previous message: [Cyberia-OT] Gore pulls ahead in Florida recount Next message: [Cyberia-OT] Palm Beach Post article on Dade undervotes: Bush would've gained votes. gained votes. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] I took the liberty of contacting the author of the story, and the numbers in the original article (which still seems to be the only one on the site, despite what the author says below) are a bit of a hash. (Maybe this was a headline in search of an article.) The exchange is reproduced below. From what I can tell from what he's told me, here's the story: - The "hanging chad" total in the figures is actual the "pinprick" figure. - There's no gain on either side from hanging chads. - Gore has an advantage of 28 "pinpricks". - Bush has an advantage of 5 in clear punches. - Gore has an advantage of 97 dimples. So the net gain or loss depends on what you think ought to get counted. (Wasn't this what was suggested as the problem with this "recount"?) Most pessimistic count for Gore: -5 Conservative count (no dimples) for Gore: +23 Most optimistic count for Gore: +120 **************** > the hanging chad totals are 81 a piece. Bush picked up 5 votes among

94. WirelessWeek.com LONDON—When it comes to new cellular subscribers in the United Kingdom, there'sno fuzzy math to complain about.Britain touches on 58 percent p. http://www.wirelessweek.com/esec/Article_30783.htm

Search Wireless Week Entire Site Articles Web-Exclusive Archives Companies Products Directories Events Archive Map Tips Advertise Archives ... Subscribe You Are Here > Home Issues Newsletter news@2direct® Archive Tools / Services Archives Capitol Hill Contacts Directories Events ... Wireless InStyle Web Directories Associations Carriers Education Government ... Vendors Sound Off How much did you spend on your last mobile phone? Less than $100 Between $100-$200 More than $200 View Previous Polls Inside Wireless Advertise - Web Editorial Planner Print Subscription Reprint Requests ... Subscribe No Fuzzy Math: U.K. Subscriber Growth Booming By Paul Quigley October 16, 2000 Britain touches on 58 percent penetration for the first time, with more than 34 million cellular users. Over the July-to-September quarter, 100,000 customers were added each week, or 10 new customers every minute of the day. The quarterly subscriber figures–the benchmark for operators and analysts–exceeded expectations in a traditionally quiet quarter. vis-à-vis profitability and performance, the stock market loves the customer number ratios. The two DCS 1800 operators, Orange and One 2 One, are catching up with their 900 MHz GSM rivals. So much so, in fact, that despite a seven-year lead in business operations, Orange looks set to trump Cellnet in the next quarter, shoving the BT wireless subsidiary into third place.

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96. EMS - Is The Alaska Metal Mining Industry Employing Fuzzy Math? 28. Is the Alaska Metal Mining Industry Employing fuzzy math? . Economic Miningcompanies are getting a free ride based on fuzzy math. We http://www.ems.org/alaska_mining/fairbanks.html

97. Weldon's Home Page Research focused on optimization, differential algebra equations, geographic information systems, biomedicine, environment applications and fuzzy industrial scheduling. University of Colorado at Denver. Page includes biography, hobbies, curriculum vitae, and publications. http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wlodwick/

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98. The MathWorks - Fuzzy Logic Toolbox a leading developer and supplier of technical computing software (MATLAB), incl. the fuzzy Logic Toolbox, among other math products. http://www.mathworks.com/products/fuzzylogic/

Design and simulate systems based on fuzzy logic This toolbox extends the MATLAB environment to support the design of fuzzy logic based systems. The Fuzzy Logic Toolbox provides a graphical user interface to guide you through the steps of fuzzy design. It also includes functions for the latest fuzzy logic methods, such as fuzzy clustering and adaptive neuro-fuzzy learning. Full Product Description Download Data Sheet Latest News Demos available at upcoming trade shows Product news and updates available from the toolbox authors What additional features would you like to see supported? Product ... New Features Send this page Try it Buy it The MathWorks, Inc. Trademarks Privacy Policy

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