Contest! Dumbest & Most Frustrating Modern Invention
Contest! Win a Coffee Cup to the Stars! What is the Dumbest & Most Frustrating Modern Invention? What is the work of man that has given the most annoyance or…
Posted inStatistics
Video: The Crisis Of Evidence, Or, Why Probability & Statistics Cannot Discover Cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Thanks to Jeremy Snavely at DDP for putting up the talks. Here's a direct link. Here's the paper. Q & A starts around 52:30 minutes. Since some readers were…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: God Can Read Your Mind
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. ESP on…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
The Only Metric That Matters
I've been reading reviews of the the peevish Jerry Coyne's new book Faith Versus Fact (I don't have any money to give him to buy an actual copy). Recommended is…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Legalized Suicide Leads To Government Deciding Who Lives, Who Dies. Update: Predictions Verified
If the government believes it has the power to grant you the right to die, then it will eventually believe it has the power to decide who lives and who…
Posted inStatistics
Stream: What’s True and What’s False in Obama’s Latest Global Warming Claims
Today's post is at The Stream: What's True and What's False in Obama's Latest Global Warming Claims. There is so much hyperbolic language surrounding the topic of global warming that…
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Keeping It Simple: The Value Of An Irreducibly Simple Climate Model. New Paper
The rebuttal to the criticism of our original peer-reviewed climate model paper "Why models run hot" has been published in Science Bulletin. It is also peer-reviewed, and therefore it must…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Which Statistics Grad School If You’re Sick Of Hocus-Pocus P-values?
I received this query from a reader and thought it important enough for all of us to answer. I was hoping you could provide some advice for an aspiring statistician.…
