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 free, they […]
A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, “Doc, I saw that new ad. The […]
Advocacy and activist organizations goose statistics in their favor. The National Organization For Red-Haired Pickpockets is bound to arrive at a figure higher, and perhaps much higher, especially if donations are being […]
Yours Truly is a statistician; indeed, the Statistician to the Stars! I call myself that because I perform probability analyses for money (and only for the best people). Yet I used to […]
Stream: The Latest Inanity: Science Can Measure Which Speech is Violent If academic psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett is right, we should be able to find the precise combination of words to cause […]
I’m at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here’s Part I of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every typo you […]
Since we’ve been having fun discussing evolution, and because of YOS’s repeated plea to distinguish observation of evolution (he provided this link), i.e. change, between the causes of these changes, I thought […]
Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate “supplementary” material. It’s a way to get in under the word […]
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