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Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes
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Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes

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Academic Argues For Permissibility of Cannibalism, You Racist

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Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia

Rajendra Pachauri---chairman of the IPCC, railway engineer, and the man who penned these words, "Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay's bed. He was overcome by a lust…
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Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad and the Washington Post Editorial

Very delicate ground, here. I want to be as precise as I know how in discussing the language used in today's Washington Post editorial about the upcoming Tim Tebow ad,…
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Welcome-to-Saturday Links

My heart soared like a hawk this week after several readers sent in fascinating stories. Here are a few of them. Reader Sara C sent in a wonderful example of…
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R Lecture 4: Help & Plotting

This is the fourth in a series of lectures on R. 10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, we learn the R way to create comments: start…
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R Lecture 3: Our First Program!

This is the third in a series of lectures on R. (DAV, I kept the intro for one last time.) Open the myRcode.R file we saved in our myR folder.…
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Two-and-a-Half Millennia Don’t Change Much

Herodotus begins his history by telling us that some Phoenician traders came to Argos, Greece and, on a whim, abducted the king's daughter Io and took her to Egypt. Later,…
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Create Tax Refunds That Must Be Donated To Political Parties?

In the State of the Union address, President Obama thought it would be pleasant to slam the Supreme Court, shaming them for their recent Citizens United v. FEC decision. Our…
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R Lecture 2: Prepping a Folder

Main page for R Lectures. This is the second in a series of lectures on R. R is command-line software. We need to type in commands. These commands should be…
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    I'll just point out that there is nothing in the Catholic doctrine that prohibits cannibalism. I was quite surprised when…

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    The cemeteries??? The hospitals themselves will weigh you and cut you up and auction you off just like the first…

  3. John Pate on Class 74: Contra Effect SizesDecember 11, 2025

    The big sticking point for me is that everyone assumes they are sampling from the Normal Distribution for no reason…

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    What the holy tortured and misinterpreted data Batman! They were comparing apples to blended banana splits and then desperately tried…

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    When the Indo-Pak agricultural systems collapse, which judging by their skirmishes over water will be in the near future, and/or…

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