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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
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What Science Says About Making Medication Mandatory
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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions

Posted by By Briggs February 18, 2026
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Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously

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Lesson Zero: Lecturing, Churchill, and End of the World

Teaching as Performance The class is two weeks of solid statistics. Eight hours a day weeks; save the weekends. I don't know about other instructors, but my technique is to…
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Lesson Five or Six: Abnormality

Say! What happened to lessons three through four or five? Who knows. This morning, I'm dreadfully rushed, so just a sketch. I do not expect anybody to be convinced this…
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Lesson Two Again and Again: Logic is Not Opinion

Everybody: thanks for the emails. I do see them. I'll be answering all on the weekend. Would it surprise you to learn that to graduate with a degree in statistics---BS,…
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Lesson Two Redux: More Mysticism

Is it written into sport announcers' contract that they shall speak in nothing but cliché? Since there is always great confusion about why premises about "fairness" or "randomness" are not…
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Lesson 2: Evidence and the Mysticism of Randomness

We made rather merry at the Chapter House last night, an annual tradition. Class begins in two hours. I can still hear the vuvus. Sheesh. Statements about the unknown made…
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Lesson 1: Limitations and Logic

The internet connectivity here at the Statler almost reaches the category of stinks. Responses will be even slower than usual in appearing. Act like an Freshman should and crack the…
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World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing

USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through---a…
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Castrate People To Prevent Global Warming Suffering?

For another take, be sure not to miss this. When I was much younger and vastly stupider, I made a snide remark to my father who was engaged in what…
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    "You do not have to believe. You can stay at uncertainty" That is a good point. With regards to the…

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    Thank you for the vivid disembowelment of the confidence intervals, which reminds me of my linear estimation statistics class of…

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    When you think of the AI revolution, should it happen, think of "Privatize the profits, socialize the costs." The profits…

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    AI is actually Indians, that is to say in a call centre somewhere someone is monitoring every "autonomous" vehicle/robot/machine except…

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    The One World Government and the One World Religion really are on their way!, God bless, C-Marie

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