Bradley Wright's Blog

I took this picture out the window of my second floor office at home. I loved the colors.

I like presenting data, and I enjoy doing it, but compared to this guy, I'm an absolute piker at presenting data. He is so clear and so...

A study that definitely needed to be done.... A priest has cataloged gender differences in what they confess as sins. Women's top two ...

I don't know what's more funny--the kid acting this way or the Dad videotaping it. The Dad is my hero!

A story in the local newspaper yesterday highlighted an amusing trend. In a rural town nearby, there is a senior center, and they are havi...

My brother John seems to have made it one of his life goals to have a lot more fun than me, and he's doing really well! Here's a vi...

I was reading an article in the paper about hazing, and I was struck by its definition of it: “Hazing” refers to any ac...

Here's an interesting graph found in last week's issue of the Economist . It plots out how many people belief in evolution in the U...

Last week, I posted about the role of data in changing (and probably more often not changing) peoples' minds. Here's more evidence ...

One of the first things that I learned in college was about Thomas Kuhn and paradigm shifts. Here's an extended discussion of it, but,...

Periodically, students who miss class will e-mail with the reason and then they'll ask: "Did I miss anything important?" (Act...

I'm prepping a lecture on research ethics, and, of course, I'm covering Stanley Milgram's experiment back in the day. Well, jus...

A classic idea in sociology is Davies J-Curve. This idea states that people are most discontent, and therefore revolutions most likely to h...

The other day, I was walking out of the community center gym, and I saw Gus sitting at one of the public computers. He had a couple of frie...

This is a time exposure of leaves floating down a small stream in fall. I thought the idea was really cool, but the resulting picture was s...

Here's an interesting graph from the Wall Street Journal . It shows each president's public-approval ratings and how they changed o...