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On The Number 49
Forty-nine is the square of 7, or 7, 7 times over. Seven is a lucky number, so 49 must be 7 times luckier than 7. We begin on fortunate ground.…
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How The 95% IPCC Certainty Falls To The Ground
Busy times at the Briggs ranch. The Evidence series will continue next week. For now, some IPCC fun. The Consensus says its 95% sure that the man has caused the…
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Armed EPA Ignores Subpoena, Conducts Secret Science, More!
Call the EPA's rule-making Nancy-Pelosi science: you must first pass the regulations before you find out the evidence for them. No: That's not quite right. Because even after its regulations…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
On The Evidence From Experiments: Part II
Read Part I first. Outcome 3. This sound like good news for you, since all treatment Bobs got better and no placebo Bobs did. Congratulations! The treatment might have caused…
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The Political Science Of The IPCC
Since the IPCC festival begins this week, I'm alternating posts like this with the series started yesterday. In this thing called Science, just as in other human affairs, one can…
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On The Evidence From Experiments: Part I
This is going to start slow, unwind at a leisurely pace, and finish, for some, with a depressing conclusion, though we won't get there today. Here's the setup. You've invented…
Posted inCulture
Pope Francis’s Mega Interview: Music & Literature Recommendations
I liked this new pope from the beginning, and for the weakest of all reasons. He looks a bit like my (deceased) maternal grandfather (who taught me to fish). He…
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On-Line Courses Not Faring Well—As Expected
Two months back I made the non-joke that MOOC's---massive off-line open courses---were not new, not "revolutionary", and were therefore not going to "change the face of education as we know…
