If you’re a scientist, soft or hard, who routinely uses statistics, it’s likely that your funding, and therefore your career, the very wellness of your being hinges on discovering statistically significant results. […]
The EPA, Dust, And The Ecological Fallacy
In last night’s Republican debate, the candidates were asked if they could eliminate just one federal agency, which one would it be? Herman Cain chose the EPA: The first — the first […]
Hume on Miracles
It’s Memorial Day, and it is not an abuse of the word “miracle” to suggest that it applies to the volunteering of the soldier who gives his life so that we might […]
The B.S. octopus
Jonathan Bate, of Standpoint, recently wrote an essay “The wrong idea of a university”: It used to work like this. Dr Bloggs, the brilliant scholar who had solved the problem of the […]
Breaking the Law of Averages: Real-Life Probability and Statistics in Plain English
It is finally done! You may order directly from the publisher here1. The book will also be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. in about a month. I’ll update this post […]
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