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Over-Certainty of Polygenic Scores
This is really a Part I of a series of articles about the latest trend (fad?) in statistical biology, but I didn't want to label it that way, which would…
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Why Dembski’s Design Inference (Of Causation) Goes Wrong
Probability does not exist; therefore, nothing has a probability, so nothing can be caused by probability, though the uncertainty of statements can be had conditional on assumptions, and this probability…
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Black Coffee Drinkers Are Sadistic Psychos: It’s Science!
Headline New study says you might be a psychopath if you like black coffee A new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria says that people who drink their…
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The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again — Pesticides & Autism
Long-time readers will recall the epidemiologist fallacy is a shotgun marriage of the ecological fallacy and wee p-values. Make that and/or confidence intervals. For confidence intervals are equivalent to p-values…
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Gene Editing: What Could Go Wrong?
Headline: Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing: Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris Scientists…
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More Asinine Global Warming Research — Introducing ‘Climate Liar’
This is a follow-up to yesterday's post. None of these "studies" merits a full-scale analysis, but they are silly enough to warrant a moment or two of your attention. Item…
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AI Is Kicking Statistics’s Ass
Here's the headline: "AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy: This isn't the first time experts have harnessed AI's predictive power for healthcare." Unsettling accuracy? Is accuracy…
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Another Proof Statistics Cannot Discover Cause
We discussed this before, but since it has come up recently in personal discussions, I wanted to offer this clarification. Suppose we're in a standard epidemiological situation, or even a…
