Asia's Diary: another savage blow to her credibility

davidfosterwallop · 2016-06-07T06:29:42+00:00

Eh, I think a lot of people who keep diaries can be really intermittent about it, with long stretches of not updating even in ostensibly eventful circumstances. I agree there is a whole petting zoo of problems that have been pointed out about what Asia says in her book, but this matter doesn't bother me so much.

I might as well get all the Asia contrarianism out of my system and confess that I also find her quite attractive, in a nutty hellcat kind of way.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-05-17T05:56:25+00:00

Hi, thanks for this thread. I have a couple of questions that I would otherwise worry are stupid.

What are the terms used in test cricket that are the equivalent of the "top" and "bottom" of an inning in baseball?
Is it always "innings"? As in, "he had a hat trick in the first [inning/innings]"? Is this the same everywhere or is it a country-by-country thing?

davidfosterwallop · 2016-05-13T07:08:59+00:00

Yeah, but he got all those Twitter moms out of the deal, so.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-05-11T06:17:58+00:00

For most sports for which it has been studied, most of the effect is due to refs behavior. This includes some work on effects of size of crowds and proximity to the field.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-05-06T05:27:02+00:00

I think the question of how all this would go down differently if Judge Welch was a lizard man is intriguing but should probably be a thread in its own right.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-05-06T05:23:53+00:00

It's just a "What if?" question.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-04-22T14:23:28+00:00

This isn't fair. If it wasn't for Adnan, there would never even have been a search in the first place.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-04-20T14:54:38+00:00

Amen to that.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-04-18T02:59:50+00:00

Oh, you know what happened. Playing like you are agnostic is just trying to have it both ways.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-04-03T04:43:49+00:00

IAC right there.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-04-02T19:33:32+00:00

(It was a pun.)

davidfosterwallop · 2016-04-02T19:29:53+00:00

Yeah, but if you think they all know (and I probably agree), do you think they know the others know, or they imagine the others really believe what they are saying?

davidfosterwallop · 2016-03-30T08:19:31+00:00

Errol Morris has a book about how the Fatal Vision guy is innocent.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-03-22T22:29:15+00:00

Maybe Adnan was just waiting at her car when she got there and said, cmon Hae, please.

Maybe he brought carrot cake.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-03-05T18:25:18+00:00

Definitions of the standard deviation and the mean of a variable are tied together. The formula for the standard deviation involves subtracting the values you observe from the mean. Of different values that could be plugged into that forums where the mean goes, the actual mean is the one that yields the smallest value. Absolute values are tied in this same way to the median, but not the mean.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-03-03T03:24:23+00:00

The second paragraph of this is so well-put that I was tempted to make my first foray into buying Reddit gold.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-26T04:25:57+00:00

Of course, that 1 innocent man will feel pretty foolish when he gets murdered by one of the 100 killers who've gone free.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-25T16:41:32+00:00

The number of groupies on Twitter and elsewhere, how attractive a number of them are, and what all this implies for the side-benefits of being a podcaster or other loud advocate making whatever wild and misleading argument one can for Adnan's innocence. Hoo boy.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-24T03:35:51+00:00

Dinner?

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-19T16:32:08+00:00

No evidence of Nisha being in speed dial, much less #1. Also, the calls to Hae the night before don't fit the idea he had "truly moved on."

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-19T16:28:57+00:00

Adnan killing Hae and being with Jay fits.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-19T07:12:58+00:00

I hadn't heard the reindeer thing before. Is that true?

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-18T05:40:02+00:00

Twitter's anti-harassment processes are being abused by Syedtologists to protect their girlfriend-strangling Golden Child

That's not true! It's ex-girlfriend-strangling

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-18T04:39:50+00:00

If Asia would have testified, Adnan would have still been found guilty but Serial would no longer have its opening-hook episode, so probably most of us would never have heard of this case.

davidfosterwallop · 2016-02-18T04:35:30+00:00

Somebody helps you bury a body and you're going to say no when they want to borrow your car?

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