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Death By Organ Donation
July 27, 2026
$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
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Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
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The Equality Paradox
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My Horrible Interaction With AI
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SOON
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The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)
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Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!
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The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
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Marbles!
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Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example
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Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic
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Truly Random Numbers Found?
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Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC
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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
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Death By Organ Donation

Posted by By Briggs July 27, 2026
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?

Posted by By Briggs July 23, 2026
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No Class: But Here’s Some Homework
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No Class: But Here’s Some Homework

No Class today, or until January 8. So as not to leave you bereft and mournful before the blessed 25th, and to satisfy your epistemological hungerings, here is some homework,…
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On The Form Of Species: ‘Dance To The Tune Of Life’ by Denis Noble Reviewed
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On The Form Of Species: ‘Dance To The Tune Of Life’ by Denis Noble Reviewed

Due to the length of yesterday's and today's post, there will be no post tomorrow. Video at bottom. There are two ways to review a book like Denis Noble's Dance…
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How To Tell How Much Of “IQ” Is Inherited & How Much Is Environment
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How To Tell How Much Of “IQ” Is Inherited & How Much Is Environment

Due to the length of tomorrow's and today's post, there will be no post Wednesday. Video at bottom. Word is out (I learned via, naturally, Steve Sailer) about a new…
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Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes
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Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes

Thanks to whoever sent the Dice (there was no note or name attached). They work! Some are recognizing testing is flawed, but they seek refuge in "effect sizes", which is…
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Academic Argues For Permissibility of Cannibalism, You Racist
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Academic Argues For Permissibility of Cannibalism, You Racist

If you are here reading this, because some of you might not be here (if you follow me), be thankful you were not invited to Muzainy Shahiefisally's house for Thanksgiving.…
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I Finally Read James Lindsay’s Manifesto (Yes, He Has A Manifesto)
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I Finally Read James Lindsay’s Manifesto (Yes, He Has A Manifesto)

It's called "A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity", co-authored with the aptly surnamed Helen Pluckrose. A fisking would produce an article sized to rival Gibbon, since Lindsay and Pluckrose…
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The Biggest Mistake In Science Applied To Universe As Simulation
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The Biggest Mistake In Science Applied To Universe As Simulation

If you're an academic, you might think the biggest mistake in science is failing to win the grant, and thus lose the power to calm the Savage Powers that demand…
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Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad Dice
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Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad Dice

This is the most in-depth, complicated Class yet. But it has everything. Every probability problem turns out to be just like asking Pr(Dice loaded|Evidence). I hope you stick by this…
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  1. hudbwu on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 26, 2026

    And to think that 20 years ago, when I was much younger, I would have fallen for these things.

  2. Eric Kay Sci Fi on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 24, 2026

    Thanks for the write-up. Thinking about things in the way of a probability distribution has always helped me, but also…

  3. Philip Rogan on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 24, 2026

    Brian, good comment. A coincidence is only a coincidence to the person to which the coincidence occurred.

  4. John Pate on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 23, 2026

    Now do Synchronicity.

  5. Brian (bulaoren) on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 23, 2026

    If a 7/11 sale occurrs in a forest, and nobody is around to document it, does it make a sound?…

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