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 […]

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 […]

President Obama’s White House has been hard at work trying to discover another term for global warming. The old phrase was deemed staid and passé, so much so that its repetition was […]

I often say—it is even the main theme of this blog—that people are too certain. This is especially true when people report results from classical statistics, or use classical methods when implementing […]