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Top Ten Articles of 2023
Making Up Data To Prove Models?
There is this idea in statistics called the “bootstrap.” The idea is not crazy, but it’s not quite right either. Works like this: data comes in, and usually some parameterized probability (PP) […]
The Futile Assault Against Reality By The Undead Woke Army Ramps Up
Here is a picture of a California birth certificate. A birth certificate is bureaucratic paperwork the Regime uses, in this instance, to further its futile war against Reality. Many of you will […]
Merry Christmas, Dear Readers
A blessed joyous Merry Christmas to my dear readers, with a reminder to my enemies, especially those nasty indefatigable creatures responsible for inserting all those typos, that there is hope for you […]
A Christmas Carol Revisited — Guest Post by Richard Law
Richard Law is a retired web engineer and writer living in Switzerland. ‘Tis the season for Charles Dickens’ (1812-1870) deservedly popular tale of the time-travels of Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol (1843). […]
Women Are Fat Not Because Donuts But Because “Discrimination”, Wee P-values Confirm
An irreconcilable conflict sets itself up in the minds of academic Experts who deny that race exists while tracking every imaginable metric by race, which they say doesn’t exist, and then announcing […]
Why Bayes Is Not The Fix We Need: A Critique of Bayesian Inference and its Application
I’ve pointed out many times some of the weaknesses of traditional statistical practices, and how the routine use of “hypothesis testing” leads to an ever-growing mountain of Broken Science. Some say the […]
A Doctor Reveals His Wee P
You go into the doc’s office. He’s not looking happy. He’s holding your chart. “Mr Smith, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.” Give it to me straight, doc. I […]
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