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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part II

Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. In no way should college teachers be judged by what research they produce, if any. Lists of papers and books should…
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Posted inCulture

University Professors Teach Too Much: Part III

Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Colleges themselves---which, I remind us, are to be separated from research institutes---should be broken in two: traditional college and technical or…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part IV

Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. I know there wasn't supposed to be a Part IV, but at the risk of boring you, and since this is…
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Posted inStatistics

California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist

The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently…
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Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

“I Can See The Future!”

The future begins tomorrow. This being so, it doesn't seem especially difficult to say what will happen in that uncertain land. Weathermen, and their noble sisters the weatherwomen, daily dispatch…
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Posted inCulture Statistics

Food Deserts: Millions Of Californians Starving Themselves Into Obesity

The blubber is flowing in California. So says that State's venerable University, Los Angeles division. It's an epidemic! Both excessive fatness "increased significantly in just six years". This isn't the…
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Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

Belief In God “Rooted” In Human Nature Say Academics

New research has shown---and by "research" I mean a fact long known to citizens is revealed to academics who attach a p-value to it and publish it---"that suggests that religion…
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Top 10 Essential (Philosophical) Conservative Book List

Today, a classic column. Original appearance 5 June 2011. A list of (non-fiction) books concerning knowledge, and the limits of certainty, about man's relations to other men. The Federalist Papers…
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