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Reader Question On Sea Level Data Precision — Help Requested
From reader Kip Hansen comes a long but good (and slightly edited) question on sea level data. I can only answer part of it, because I have no expertise in…
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The Political Corruption Of Science — Grade Manipulation In STEM Edition
Here are two recent examples, of many, with many more to come, of the pozzing of science by grade deflation. Meaning the lowering of standards as measured by grades. LADIES…
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The Political Corruption Of Science — Sex Assigned At Birth Edition
A peer-reviewed paper that caused a ripple in awareness before Christmas is worth investigating. Outlets ran headlines like this: "Trans children sense their gender identities at young ages, study suggests."…
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On That Climate-Change-Now-Detectable-From-Any-Single-Day-Of-Weather Paper
The peer-reviewed paper is "Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale" by Sippel and Knutti an others in Nature: Climate Change. Look at that…
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The Political Corruption Of Science — Mandatory Oaths To Diversity Edition
We continue our series of the pozzing of science by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) mavens (the DIE is from Steve Sailer). A mathematician wrote in the Wall Street Journal…
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All Of The Supposed Paradoxes About The Principle Of Indifference Are Bogus
Here is an example of a supposed paradox caused by using Keyne's Principle of Indifference, which Stove and others (and myself) call the Statistical Syllogism (itself deduced from the symmetry…
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Anti-Christian JK Rowling Attacked By Lunatics When She Defends Woman Who Claimed Reality Of Sex
On the same day the ACLU invented the term "menstrual equity", here's what JK Rowling said, quoted in case her tweet is deleted: Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever…
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The Predictive Way Is The Only Way In Statistics: Sick Cow Edition
What is the purpose of modeling? There can be only two. The first is to say what happened, to explain. But in order to do this one must first assume…