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I’m An Expert: I Must Be Right
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Class 4: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: The Return of Logic
Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble This week I really could have benefited from seeing people's reactions. Ah, well. HOMEWORK It is true that "If p then…
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Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way?
The question is not mine. It belongs to Philip Stark, who asked it of Deborah Mayo at a Berkeley lecture. Stark plainly asked five good questions: When and how did…
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Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs
Headline from MSN: "Jewish senators alarmed by Alito’s pro-Christian agenda". Jewish Democratic senators are alarmed by conservative Justice Samuel Alito’s sympathy for basing government on Christian principles — something he…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Stars In Our Eyes, Rotting Our Minds
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 Minutes
Here my friends is the whole of probability and uncertainty, in highlight form. A quick overview of where we have been, what we're doing, and where we're going. All can…
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I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I Need
Some libertarian on Twitter said that my arguments against immigration were bad. I hadn't by that time made any, except to point out his utilitarian argument that measles rates had…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Somebody Might Get Hurt!
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
