CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE The Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, F?sicas y Naturales of Spain and the Fundaci?n Ram?n Areces are sponsoring that conference in Madrid […]
Heartland conference: day 3 and wrap up
Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus started off the day with a rousing speech. I hadn’t known he was an economist, but it was obvious quickly through his use of phrases like “maximize […]
Another reason to leave academia
1. Repeat after me: “There are no innate biological differences between men and women…except, well, women are of course better nurturers, sympathizers, empathizers, and a score of other things.” 2. Now use […]
Hitting or Pitching. Which wins more games?
By Tim Murray and William Briggs You obviously need to score runs to win baseball games, and buying better hitters does this for a team. But you also need to keep your […]
CO2 and Temperature: which predicts which?
Parts of this analysis were suggested by Allan MacRae, who kindly offered comments on the exposition of this article which greatly improved its readability. The article is incomplete, but I wanted to […]
Stats 101: Chapter 4
Chapter 4 is ready to go. This is where it starts to get weird. The first part of the chapter introduces the standard notation of “random” variables, and then works through a […]
How to Cheat: Stats 101 Chapter 14
Here is the link. I’ve decided to jump ahead a few chapters. Chapters 10 – 13 are very important and cover material that comprises 90% of all the actual statistics that is […]
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 […]
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