Somebody spoofed my Yahoo email address which I use for ordering, registrations and the like. Sent hundreds of emails to my contact list yesterday. Now I ordinarily run Linux, which you will […]
The Trolley Problem And Experimental Philosophy
The Trolley Problem, as given by Eric Schwitzgebel (as part of a larger survey): You are standing by the railroad tracks when you notice an empty boxcar rolling out of control. It […]
Ivy League Climate Skeptics
I received this email from Rob Fishman at the Huffington Post. My answer follows. I’m the social media editor here at HuffPost (and a Cornell alum). I came across your blog online. […]
A Most Depressing Day
I had planned on discussing the Tom Siegfried Science News “Odds Are, It’s Wrong” article on how bad classical statistics is that many readers sent in. But—and I’m sorry to my many […]
Stats 101: Chapter 6
It was one of those days yesterday. I got two chapters up, but did not give anybody a way to get them! Here it is These are the last two “basics” Chapters. […]
Not all uncertainty can be quantified
(This essay will form, when re-written more intelligently, part of Chapter 15, the final Chapter, of my book. Which is coming….soon? The material below is not easy nor brief, folks. But it […]
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