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How to Cheat: Stats 101 Chapter 14
Here is the link. I've decided to jump ahead a few chapters. Chapters 10 - 13 are very important and cover material that comprises 90% of all the actual statistics…
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The B.S. octopus
Jonathan Bate, of Standpoint, recently wrote an essay "The wrong idea of a university": It used to work like this. Dr Bloggs, the brilliant scholar who had solved the problem…
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But you must hate us!
I am in Ithaca, New York, teaching a short course at Cornell University. Have you ever visited Ithaca? It was once voted the "most enlightened city in America" by the…
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Shifting Baselines Syndrome
If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…
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On the difference between mathematical ability between boys and girls
Today's headlines mostly got it wrong: The New York Sun said "Study Shatters Myth That Boys Are Better At Math." The New York Post said "Girls = boys in math…
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Substack Mirror wmbriggs.substack.com Résumé I am a wholly independent writer, statistician, scientist and consultant. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School, a Statistician at DoubleClick in its infancy, a…
