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Impossible LSAT Statistics Question

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How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)

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Independent Rating Of University Degrees
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Independent Rating Of University Degrees

The University of Akron is, so this story says, offering to buy out half of is faculty. Half. How many administrators it will buy out or fire is not said.…
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An Argument Against The Multiverse
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An Argument Against The Multiverse

The multiverse might be real. God might in His wisdom and love of completeness and true diversity and the joy of filling all possible potentials with actuality might have created…
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The Anti-Christian New York Times Says God Not Coherent
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The Anti-Christian New York Times Says God Not Coherent

That the New York Times is anti-Christian is obvious enough. Most of its founders, leaders, and top employees are not Christian, and thus the paper naturally has an in-built bias,…
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Non-Empirical Confirmation Of Theories
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Non-Empirical Confirmation Of Theories

Difficulties "Fundamental physics today faces the problem that empirical testing of its core hypotheses is very difficult to achieve and even more difficult to be made conclusive," says Richard Dawid…
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Summary Against Modern Thought:  Divine Providence Does Not Exclude Evil
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Divine Providence Does Not Exclude Evil

Previous post. In which the age-old question is answered: If God exists, whence comes evil? THAT DIVINE PROVIDENCE DOES NOT ENTIRELY EXCLUDE EVIL FROM THINGS 1 Now, from these conclusions…
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The Week In Doom — We Are All Seattle Now Edition
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The Week In Doom — We Are All Seattle Now Edition

Item KOMO News Special Seattle is Dying KOMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b53uiRFq4Ds If you were at all sanguine about the future, I beg you will watch this video. Item Inside the online community…
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A Failed Argument Against Free Will: Predicting Actions
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A Failed Argument Against Free Will: Predicting Actions

It is always hilarious when people rail against free will, who are especially flummoxed that Common Man believes in free will, and say "If only people realized their choices weren't…
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Death Blow To Statistical Significance! — Bonus: Here’s The Replacement
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Death Blow To Statistical Significance! — Bonus: Here’s The Replacement

Don't miss the Nature article below! (I stole the graphic from it.) Am Stat Here are the opening lines from a press release (unfortunately sounding like every other press release…
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    > But that’s because the setup is itself weird. It contains the implicit premise that more beliefs equals better survival,…

  2. John M on Impossible LSAT Statistics QuestionFebruary 3, 2026

    Well, now I know why lawyers are all screwed up.

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    I think Mr. Blow hit the nail on the head.

  4. Uncle Mike on Impossible LSAT Statistics QuestionFebruary 3, 2026

    Statisticians always get blamed for everything. My friend is a statistician, so it's his own stupid fault.

  5. JH on Impossible LSAT Statistics QuestionFebruary 3, 2026

    (A) Both valid and sound arguments are considered correct. The premise for a valid argument may be false. (See https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/).…

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