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A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability
Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…
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Media Lying With Polls? Is The Pope…Er…Ah, Never Mind
Today's post is at The Stream: Be Skeptical of the Polls: Is the media lying to boost Hillary? Note: I'm putting the Summary Against Modern Thought Sunday series on hiatus…
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Why Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer
Opening sentence of the abstract in the peer-reviewed paper "When Meat Gets Personal, Animals' Minds Matter Less: Motivated Use of Intelligence Information in Judgments of Moral Standing" in Social Psychological…
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One World Without Borders Would Lead To Tyranny
Hillary, in her own words, said "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders". She said it, but it's not clear if she believes it.…
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Stream: Satanism, Child Torture, Mind Control — What Is On Hollywood’s Mind?
Today's post is at the Stream: Satanism, Child Torture, Mind Control -- What Is On Hollywood's Mind? Who's up for some child torture? No, seriously. Wouldn't strapping a boy into…
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Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Fem’nists
With apologies... Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Fem'nists Don't let 'em grieve men or choose man-boy cucks Let 'em be true wives and mothers and such…
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What Russia Wants, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Editor's note: This is Part I of two parts. There are two surefire ways to insanity, The Abbott once told me. The first is to contemplate The Infinite always. The…
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Statistical Models CANNOT Show Cause, But EVERYBODY Thinks They Can. Hence the Replication CRISIS
Please pass this on to ANY researcher who uses statistics. Pretty please. With sugar on top. Like I say below, it's far far far far far past time to cease…