Posted inStatistics
Final Healthcare Showdown: Government vs. Liberty
There's Nancy Pelosi, Six Gun of State strapped to her side, the sun burning overhead. And there's you, armed only with Freedom, thirty paces off. It's a standoff! If you…
Posted inStatistics
Climate Model Uncertainty: Part II
Read Part I The Analysis (cont.) Two problems arise when comparing a model's integration (the forecast) with an analysis of new observations, which are not found when comparing the forecast…
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Pajamas Media: President Obama To Make Poverty Permanent
Today's post is at Pajamas Media: President Obama To Make Poverty Permanent. The Obama administration will create a new definition of poverty, one that changes as a function of how…
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Climate Model Uncertainty: Part I
Would you check the results of a model with another model? Before you answer, be sure you know what the question is. A model---whether it is physical, statistical, mathematical, or…
Use of Deadly Force Authorized Against Renegade Sea Lions
The deadliest force known to man---The Law of Unintended Consequences---has struck again. This time it has led to the deliberate slaughter of sea lions by armed agents of the U.S.…
New Study Says iPhones Addictive: More Bad Statistics
(Note: I do not have an iPhone, nor "smart" phone of any kind.) Addiction is a strong word. It means, as the authors of the study are content to allow…
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England Invents New Kind of Inequality
A female named Harriet Harman at England's Equalities and Human Rights Commission has discovered a new method of producing inequality under the law. She has codified this method---England's version of…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Do only the less intelligent write papers about theists being less intelligent?
There are some new statistical papers floating around that conclude that the more intelligent among us tend to be atheists. An equivalent, but more enjoyable, way of stating this is…
