"Jumping 0.9%"
I am SO FUCKING SICK of all the play-by-play of the Dow Jones jumping up a hundred or down fifty points.
Does anyone understand statistics in this dumb country? No? I didn't think so. See that graph? You see it?
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Does anyone get it?
Read the beginning of that Wikipedia article. We've got 100 years of source data about a stupid game of controling people's lives and we think we know it all. Take a look at that graph again.
There are two types of bull markets. A secular bull market is a period in which the stock market index is continually reaching all-time highs with only brief periods of correction, as during the 1990s, and can last upwards of 15 years. A cyclical bull market is a period in which the stock market index is reaching 52-week or multi-year highs and may briefly peak at all-time highs before a rapid decline, as in the early 1970s. It usually occurs within relatively longer bear markets and lasts about three years.That little dip in the early 21st century was NOT a correction. And I cannot see these "corrections" from the 1970s. This is a bunch of made up bullshit.
This is the stupidest shit in the world. Business is the biggest bunch of bullshit. At least my history thesis was about something that actually fucking happened.
And here is where I complained about work, or my lack thereof. I've set my bar really high, but they've set my bar really really low. So they think I'm doing great, but I feel like nothing is happening.The world is full of complete idiots. All you have to do to know that is to read the comments on anything that gets a lot of comments, especially Alternet. The glut of morons complaining about "why is this on here" is enough to make one homicidal. If you didn't like the article, STFU, who gives a shit? Feminist articles or even blog posts garner that kind of response more than any other post. The obviousness of men wanting women to stop talking at all is nauseating and pathetic. I can't even talk about it anymore, it is getting to be a cliche. Our society is going to hell, or is already there.
You know what I am sick of? All of the articles about Iraq and our failed policy. It is the same thing over and over, with extra details added. At least the feminist articles provide a perspective that we haven't heard before. Or that people besides me and other intelligent women haven't already thought of. You know the difference? I DON'T READ THOSE ARTICLES because I know that other people DO care. I DON'T think I'm the center of the world or that my opinion is shared by the entire population. I'm NOT an entitled asshole, but maybe I ought to be. Too bad I was raised to RESPECT others. Thats why I had a hard time getting into SomethingAwful. It was a big penis party full of jackasses that thought that since they went through some antimosity in high school and obsessed over computer crap that they were entitled treat anyone that veered outside their tightly and ambiguously drawn lines like shit. I'm too old for that. I was too old for that at 5.
When I was growing up, I always assumed that adults knew more than I did - those older than me knew more than I did, but now I'm peaking - I'm old enough to be really really smart, and not just for my age. And now I'm looking around with my paltry 147 IQ and realizing just how stupid the rest of the world really is. No wonder I'm depressed.
And it is so obvious that the American Empire is in decline. Any anthropologist or historian can tell you, but we're debating things like it the surge worked. IF the surge worked. IF it fucking worked???? The soldiers could have been flinging their own shit instead of bullets and it would have had the same effect.
It doesn't take a fucking weatherman to see the goddamn weather.
What were the goals for the stupid "surge" of 20% more troops? Secure Baghdad so the government can get things done. Baghdad is not secure and the government hasn't gotten anything done. Anbar is secure, wonderful, did you know that Anbar is mostly desert? 1+1 still equals 2, but we're fucking debating this. They're all just fucking morons.
Back to the Dow. I'm sure you've heard of all the fuss over the jumps, and drops of the Dow in the last month. Here is how the Dow has acted over the past year, in real terms.
I'm not going to give a shit until the Dow goes down several hundred points in a few days. Period, end of story, STFU already.
3 comments:
I don't get statistics. Of course, I can barely divide without a calculator, so that's to be expected.
Excellent rant.
What's funny is that I always remember Sig getting better grades than me in math classes. I only ever got about a C in any math class I've ever taken ever since 9th grade when Mrs. Stevens almost failed me because I refused to copy the theorems down word for word. For a long time I just thought I was stupid, until I realized that I could do all the math I was given in science classes. Math teaching is a bunch of bullshit, and the first decent math teacher I've had is at the graduate level. Sig, I don't think you're bad at math. I think you have no confidence in your ability at math because of years of shitty math teachers in the Rapids public schools.
Justin has been saying for a long time how economics is mostly horseshit. I tend to agree, since it seems to me like the only things I ever hear economists saying are things to please rich people.
I think it's a miracle that my math grades were better than ANYONE'S. You're right, Erica -- the WR school system definitely shoulders part of the blame.
But there are other factors, starting with my passionate hatred of all things math, and my utter disinterest in the subject. I slogged through because I had to, but I didn't care enough to make any extra effort to do well.
Another factor was that my father is not a math whiz. He was able to help me with my science homework when I asked him to -- and he was really enthusiastic about it -- but he wasn't able to help me with my math. If he'd been able to do the same with math, I think things would have been a lot different.
And there are the teachers to consider. My math teachers were, for the most part, a highly boring and unmemorable group who made math out to be even more dull than it actually is. My science teachers, on the other hand, were some pretty interesting characters. :)
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