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Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living Forever

Posted by By Briggs October 15, 2025
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Nobody Believes Anything Based On “No Evidence”

Posted by By Briggs October 14, 2025
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New York Passes Gay Marriage: What Are The Consequences?

Jason and David meet to discuss the new gay marriage law. Jason: "It finally happened! New York passed gay marriage. Now gay couples are the same as straight couples!" David:…
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A New (Old) View Of Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 11

It is often difficult to keep in mind all the links in a chain of argument when that chain is long.1 This is especially so when one expects that chain…
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Regression Examples. Normal Distributions Often Stink. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 10

Today, just one example, and the simplest kind, to show you that using regular regression, with its assumptions of "normality", can quickly lead to absurdities---absurdities which will pass unnoticed using…
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Picking X’s In Regression. The Role Of Relevance. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 9

Be sure to first read Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends then Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples, as this post…
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Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 8

Be sure to first read Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends, as this post is an extension of it. As yesterday: If y is some…
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Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 7

There are a subset of professional statisticians---defined as folks who have had formal training in the field given to them by other professionals---who feel that the field of statistics is…
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The Purpose Of All Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day5

First, and most strongly, probability need not have anything to do with data. For example, we can compute a value for the probability that "Matt wears a hat" given the…
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Combinatorics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 4

I often use this example, last night given as homework: if you have a bottle of bourbon, one of scotch, and another of beer, how many ways can you pour…
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  1. Brian (bulaoren) on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025

    My sincerest apologies for misspelling a name in my previous post. I was, of course, referring to "Ayesha" from the…

  2. Brian (bulaoren) on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025

    Yes, Putin and Xi are, at age 72, getting a bit haggard. Speaking of Haggard; his character Aisha (the must…

  3. Uncle Mike on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025

    Ah yes, the one-eyed Uyghur conspiracy. Parting out the slaves like wrecked cars. The global billionaires are vampires, if not…

  4. Johnno on Nobody Believes Anything Based On “No Evidence”October 14, 2025

    Fatima is believed not only for the weight of evidence in it's favor (it was also testfied to by hardened…

  5. Lucy Tucker on Nobody Believes Anything Based On “No Evidence”October 14, 2025

    Scidolator. I like it.

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