Welcome to the week of classical posts on global warming, now “climate change”, a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has many bona […]
Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!
The Claim 37% Of Heat Deaths Are Caused By Global Warming Is Absurd
The media has been reporting that 37% “of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change”. They gleaned this from the peer-reviewed paper, “The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to […]
Dreaded Delta; Noble Lies In The Name of Science; No Fly List With Mark of the Vex; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXXIII
MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN DO There is so much material this week I can’t include it all in one update. It would grow far too long. If it can be summed […]
The Ugly Unreality Of The Homogenization Of Time Series: Why Climate Scientists Are Too Sure Of Themselves
Day two of the week of classical posts on global warming, now “climate change”. Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I am on […]
Why Experts Hate Racial Differences In Intelligence
Steve Sailer highlights an interesting new paper on “cognitive ability” and genetic ancestry (which, in an effort to forestall criticism, perhaps, Sailer calls a “scientific paper”). It’s “Linear and partially linear models […]
Observable-Based , Predictive, or Causal Statistics? Don’t Test! Don’t Estimate!
The term predictive statistics is used to describe a focus on observables, and not on any invisible model-based parameters as is found in estimation and null hypothesis significance testing. It isn’t sticking, […]
One Milwaukee Ballot Curiosity & One New Theoretical Voter Fraud Tool
Milwaukee Milwaukee is comprised of a number of wards, almost 500, from which was collected the number of votes each candidate received in both the 2016 and 2020 Presidential elections (official source […]
The Usefulness Of Historical Analogues: Russian – West Intelligentsia Parallels Example
Ed Lorenz back in 1961 was running, on a computer!, a simple weather model, with twelve full parameters. This was in the days of punch cards and paper print outs. He wanted […]
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