Book review – Page 24 – William M. Briggs

The limits of statistics: black swans and randomness

The author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, has penned the essay THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS over at Edge.org…

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Transforming American Military Policy

Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy by Frederick W. Kagan, 2006. Encounter Books. Recommendation: read This book is an excellent accounting of the theories that have gripped…

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Calculated Risks: How to know when numbers deceive you: Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer, Simon and Schuster, New York, 310 pp., ISBN 0-7432-0556-1, $25.00 Should healthy women get regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer? The surprising answer, according to this wonderful…

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“The Future of Everything” by David Orrell

The Future of Everything by David Orrell. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York. I wanted to like this book, which was supposed to be an examination of how well scientists made…

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The Algebra of Probable Inference: Richard T. Cox

This is a lovely, lovely book and I can't believe it has taken me this long to find and read it (November 2005: I was lead to this book via…

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The Rationality of Induction: David Stove

Is deductive logic empirical? No. Is inductive logic also empirical? No. Is induction justified and, if so, is it just an extension of logic? Yes. These are Stove's conclusions as…

Brian (bulaoren) on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
Wait...What?... If pregnancy is a pathology, should the sex act be done only in moderation; "Just till we need glasses?"…
Uncle Mike on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
More academic diseases: breathing, eating, talking, motherhood, fatherhood, farming, mining, forestry, self-defense, private property, peace, justice, truth, beauty ... Happy…
bruce g charlton on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
Biologically speaking, the most objective definition of a disease that I know is on the lines of: "Something that reduces…
Robert Arvanitis on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
In the most charitable interpretation, perhaps the authors meant to protect medical benefits and employment protection to "birthing persons..." If…
E C on Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical StatisticsMay 10, 2025
If I understand your linked article in Academic Questions correctly, it seems frequentism is a classic example of tunnel-vision; or,…