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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 01/10/2026

I had no wifi and e xtr ee m ly low s cell service for most of the day. It was marvelous.

Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 01/10/2026

I feel attacked, and so do my fellow <checks population of a certain small state> 650K faculty. BTW, isn't there a limit to how many exams we can ask a six-month-old to score and provide feedback on in a week?

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 30/09/2026

I’m sure Edsel Musk might

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 30/09/2026

Obviously we all should’ve been born as Stanford full professors

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 29/09/2026

My sort-of-on-point blog entry is almost even timely! shermandorn.com?p=9838 (Written as much for teaching purposes as general, but hey!)

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 29/09/2026

I have a different perspective, to steal from William Gibson: The failed MOOC experiments are already in the past, just not very evenly distributed. 😘

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 29/09/2026

You have earned the Jejune Badge shermandorn.com?p=3858

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 29/09/2026

Free headline offer: Don’t Count Your Senate Majorities before They (Orrin) Hatch

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 27/09/2026

If I ever get a billion dollar lottery winner (not that I pay), I’m splitting it into $5m pieces and after family I’m giving FU money to so many colleagues

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 27/09/2026

I let MLB have a piece of my mind on this - guy who saw Nolan Ryan throw his fourth no-hitter, June 1975 -- among many other things in MLB history

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MLB Support

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 27/09/2026

Pretty much what I just wrote in the MLB contact page: "ARE YOU MOTHERFUCKING KIDDING ME?"

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MLB Support

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 27/09/2026

No children's shows. No documentary except the one with David Attenborough. Where is the great public-affairs programming?

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 27/09/2026

"Come a little bit closer hear what I have to say..."

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 27/09/2026

I want the Tony Bennett song with that title!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 26/09/2026

The more gets built up, the more work there is in tearing it down, and we can sell off the pieces, like the Berlin Wall.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 26/09/2026

* backyard looks ** is where Simon & I

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 26/09/2026

There is no truth to the rumor that Dr. McMillan Cottom and her spouse's backyard look anything like this. (This house in Prescott is Simon & I chilled after the spring semester. The truly gigantic boulder in the yard has only a portion of it appearing in the corner of the photo.)

Small dog lying in spatious yard with fake turf, bricks, benches, gravel, and giant boulder.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 25/09/2026

Once again, @aefpweb.bsky.social punches well above its weight in the world. In this week's example, a comment on proposed new grant rules (in EDGAR). In general, my professional associations have done a huge amount of good work in the past few years.

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Docket ID ED-2026-OPEPD-2542_AEFP Comment_2026 09 23.pdf

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 25/09/2026

They had their so-called Helen Purcell Rule, and decided to chuck it in the trash bin in a previous opinion. The concept of a 9-member overlord body without supervision or binding ethics rules can follow it into the same trash bin.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 25/09/2026

I can think of many truly-uniquely bad decisions: electing our current president. Milli Vanilli. Waterworld. The failure to teach Raffi about this thing called rhythm. But for all the problems with GPT-4o, I'm not sure "uniquely" is the right adverb.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 25/09/2026

Do you have seminars in the summer? Asking for ... me. Okay, me. - Sherman who is trying to enjoy 80-F. evening after fall equinox.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 25/09/2026

Wait what, have they never heard of this miracle of modern living called renting?

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 23/09/2026

And they said one would never have a political equivalent of hedging strategies...

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 23/09/2026

"Come for the paycheck, stay for the Destruction Truck Derby high."

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 23/09/2026

I am so sorry for your loss, and so glad you had him as a dad.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 23/09/2026

I thought that about the first Trump administration, so DEFINITELY about this version

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 23/09/2026

Leverage. What could go wrung?

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 21/09/2026

Daughter and I are ripping apples and peaches from their branches. We will then eat those we don’t share. Yes, apples and peaches grow in Arizona. At 4000 ft

Man and small wagon full of green apples and peaches

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 21/09/2026

Almost. Almost: “There is actually zero indifference…” I have no idea what it would mean but it has at least the appearance of profundity as opposed to eliminating any doubts

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 21/09/2026

It's inevitable: the minute after I post a blog entry, I notice more errors. One difference between a blog and journalism: professional editing before publication. Deeper one, which I've mentioned before: corrections. If your "substack periodical" has no corrections, it's a multi-author blog.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 21/09/2026

50 years after @genevglass.bsky.social's original meta-analysis article, there is still confusion about effect sizes. Some of it is reasonable, others the legacy of Jacob Cohen's ... mmmm ... attempt to colonize beyond his sphere of methodology.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 21/09/2026

Reasoning about and interpreting effect sizes: How big are they, really? shermandorn.com?p=9838

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 20/09/2026

Thank you! I'm glad I took the time to move my thoughts from a blog entry to something that has more weight in the Wikipedia universe.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 20/09/2026

Thank you for watching this (I think?). I've never had the energy to organize an Education Propaganda Film Festival, but... seems like this would qualify.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 20/09/2026

OMG. May the rest of your recovery be quick and very medically boring.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 20/09/2026

For the decade I was an admin, my Venn-diagram-as-a-circle subjects were: - Micromanaging colleagues is not my philosophy - Micromanaging colleagues is not in my skill set - I have no time to micromanage colleagues

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 20/09/2026

Our frightened rescue pup from 9.3 years ago now has a predominantly-gray muzzle.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 19/09/2026

"Republicans still have father to fall" indeed!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 19/09/2026

OMG, DO NOT CORRECT THE NON-TYPO!! "Republicans still have father to fall" indeed!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 19/09/2026

Though there is Harry Chapin's "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 19/09/2026

OMG there's a song in that there story. At least I'm not aware of any existing songs about this. Though I suspect other Bluesky denizens would have greater knowledge than I about poetry or lyrics focusing on exploding overripe fruit

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18/09/2026

DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THE NON-TYPO. I’m going to steal “of curse” for myself, for reasons

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18/09/2026

Bluesky rendered my attempt at "greater than or equal to" as a double-shafted arrow. Weird. Let me rephrase Lots of frequentists have such priors, but "only publish if p < .05" is a pretty ugly such prior.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18/09/2026

I have yet to have a project where it makes sense for me but I've thought about this ... It's a prior on a different level ("meta-prior"??) -- the procedural step of deciding the depth. Lots of frequentists have such priors, but "don't publish if p => .05" is a pretty ugly such prior.

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