Most know what the structure of the March Madness basketball tournament looks like. I am not most; I had to look it up; what I don’t know about college basketball would fill […]
Disparity is inevitable: a counter argument to filing discrimination lawsuits
Introduction Know a lawyer who is involved in a discrimination lawsuit? Particularly one in which the plaintiff alleges discrimination because actual disparities are found in company hiring practices? Were you aware that, […]
Climate Skeptic Conspiracy Strikes!
I have never been part of a conspiracy before—there was never the opportunity—so you can imagine how excited I am about finally joining one. It’s true that, in 1978, I, my sister, […]
Randomized Trials Are Not Needed
I promised this article a long time ago: I hope these well known calculations are enough to give the gist. Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard of experimental […]
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 needed, we […]
Statistics as Beauty; Global Warming Miscellany; SATs Biased?; More
Statistics is Beautiful? From reader Yeah, Yeah comes a link to a Wired article which assures us we should “Learn the Language of Data.” It’s not a pretty language, but it can […]
Newcomb’s Paradox And Probability
This article was suggested by reader JH who saw it discussed at Massimo Pigliucci’s site. When he was at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, William Newcomb devised the following puzzle, which some say […]
The McShane and Wyner Gordie Howe Treatment Of Mann
Many—as in lots and lots—of folks wrote in and asked me to review the McShane and Wyner paper. Thanks! Gordie Howe—Mr Hockey to you—didn’t need his stick, his hockey stick, to plaster […]
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