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Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting
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Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting

Posted by By Briggs January 13, 2026
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Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose Money

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Trend Models & The Inability To Discover Cause

The plot atop this post is one of an observable, the cause of which is known to be related to a variety of physical, chemical, biological, geographical, and even sociological…
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Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised

The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Do not…
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Resolved: Women’s Suffrage Caused More Harm Than Good

If your first reaction upon reading the title was "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!" or "Frrrpppkwiliq boahh boahh boahh!" or some variant of "%&*&^%$##!", then you have discovered the meaning of sacrilegious. Congratulations! You…
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Gallup: More Adults Identifying As LGBT(…), Which Implies Even More Will

For the purposes of full disclosure (as they say), I self-identify as a yak. Thus far I am the only known Yak-American. But once the advantages of yakitude become better…
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Orthodox Rabbi Suggests Adam & Eve ‘Black Transgender Refugees’

Trouble with words, is that if you're not diligent corruption can set in and cause a label to become garbled or meaningless. Such happened with conservative, which once meant "upholder…
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Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Today's discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in "The Right Religion", which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature…
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Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed

I want everybody to read Anthony Esolen's Out of the Ashes. Buy it if you can; at least borrow it. Libraries still exist in many places, and some of them…
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    "(I have in the queue a story on confirmation bias of academic Experts that confirms my bias that academic Experts…

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    Around 2013, I obtained all death certificate data from the state of California for the years 2000-2012. I posted on…

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    Anon. I believe you'll find they are the same. I did a little shorthand by first taking the absolute value…

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    Errata: your moneyline formula should have (x - 100) in the denominator for -x.

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    I was cured of buying lotto tickets about 40 years ago when a Brisbane newspaper published an article about gambling,…

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