“Sir? Please step over here. You need to be x-rayed.” “What? Get outta my way. Who are you?” said the man. “Sir, please step over to the machine. You have been selected […]
Japanese Meltdown
No, not the reactors, the press. Ghouls, most of them. They always wish for the worst. The only class of people (besides Communists and morticians) for whom death not only delights, but […]
Wrong -> Immoral -> Illegal?
Says Paul Krugman, a writer for a local New York paper, The only way we’re going to get action, I’d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of action come […]
Wall Street Journal: Better than a statistics textbook.
On Thursday 14 August, the Wall Street Journal had two excellent articles, which expertly described the statistics and uncertainty of their topics. Several readers have wrote in asking for an analysis of […]
Suicides increase due to reading atrocious global warming research papers
I had the knife at my throat after reading a paper by Preti, Lentini, and Maugeri in the Journal of Affective Disorders (2007 (102), pp 19-25; thanks to Marc Morano for the […]
Wishcasting
Around the 4th of July, here in the States, there is a tendency for official weather forecasts to show a probability of precipitation that is lower than it should be. It rains […]
The limits of statistics: black swans and randomness
The author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, has penned the essay THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS over at Edge.org (which I […]
Book coming…
I’ve been taking the past few days and building an Index for the my “101” book. It is painstaking, meticulous…well, excruciatingly dull work. But it’s nearly done. This is slowing me down […]
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