Posted inStatistics
Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness
WARNING! If you're attempting to read this via email and not on the site, you might encounter problems: the text might look like gibberish. The LaTeX interpreter, which I need…
Posted inPhilosophy
Science Is Not The Answer: Should We Coerce Covid Drugs Because Science?
I have been asked by several, several times, to start a Substack. I have no idea why clicking on a Substack article is different than clicking here. But this might…
Posted inFun
On Ford Restoring & Saving AM Radio
And now, since many are still vacationing, a subject perhaps only three in a hundred care about. AM radio. You might have heard that Ford was going to whack AM…
Posted inPhilosophy
Does Admitting Spengler’s End Of Science Mean We Have To Accept Ways Of Knowing?
Let's expand a point made in the post Blish & Spengler On The End Science. Both Blish, in his summary of Spengler, and Spengler himself, said that West Civilization (in…
Posted inStatistics
Class 50: Independence Versus Irrelevance
Independence implies causality; irrelevance is consistent with logic. A reminder that there is no such thing as unconditional probability. WARNING for those reading the email version! The text below might…
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On Scott Adams’s Vax-Decision Analysis
Dilbert's Scott Adams posted a video on his reasoning behind his decision whether to get vaxed during the covid panic. He concludes that no one is now in a position…
Posted inCulture
What Would You Call This Style Of Bad Writing?
Describing writing isn't that different from writing about painting. You want to say what the writing or the picture is about, but words fail, the essence is slippery, the description…
Posted inBook review Culture
Women’s Bodies — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
Today, an excerpt of Chapter 13 from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. As before, this is a brief excerpt from a long chapter which investigates the feminine. You may also…
