fish!

and now, finally something about fish: for example this grumpy looking son of a fish.

politics: nazis can't march in göttingen

finally something on politics:
today, the right wing extremists of the npd wanted to march in göttingen and spread some of their disgusting antisemitic and other bullshit propaganda. but they didn't succeed. while several 1000 peaceful people of göttingen stood by and thought the nazis might go away if they just told them they didn't want them in their beautiful city (because that's what this kind of "peaceful" protesting is about: protecting the image of their cosy home town while ignoring the widespread roots of nazism within society), others (a few hundred) made it simply physically impossible for the nazis to proceed (report from eitb, a spanish news channel in english language).
the "peaceful" people of course reject "violence" against nazis but they still want a piece of it: mainstream media claim that "several thousand" protesters held up the npd demonstration and so everybody in göttingen now claims they have chased the nazis out of göttingen.

of course nazism is not defeated now. but thanks to activists, one can take a short breath and go on fighting ideology every day, every place with a little less danger of being physically attacked for it.

tools for moderation analysis

there's a couple of small tools we made for support of moderation analysis:

SiSSy creates spss syntax for moderation analysis following aiken & west (1991) (for a continuous or dichotomous moderator).
VYBes lets you create spss code to output a graph of the moderation obtained in SiSSy and VYBes2U generates that graph online as a png-image.

all three may be found at http://stattools.researchx.net


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