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There Is No Such Thing As An Average Man
Several readers---thanks to James, Steve E, and Ted Poppke---found the story "When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages", which is an excerpt from the Todd Ross book The…
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Stream: Brussels Attack And The Ironies Of Muslim Assimilation
Today's post is at the Stream: The Brussels Attack And The Ironies Of Muslim Assimilation. Ironies abound in the latest terrorist attack. Consider this propaganda video in which the organization…
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Gender Ideology Harms Children, Is Child Abuse Say Pediatricians
The American College of Pediatricians, that stalwart organization, says Gender Ideology Harms Children and is child abuse. And so say we, too. Here is their statement, along with [my notes…
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The Ethics Of Precrime
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is All Mighty
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Some fleshing…
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Can A Catholic In Good Conscience Vote For Trump?
The titular question has been posed oft of late, most recently by the Catholic News Agency in their coverage of "An Appeal to Our Fellow Catholics" made by the big…
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Police To Use Algorithms To Predict Which Cops Will Go Rogue
Word is police are buying statistical algorithms which purport to predict crime. Not just at the neighborhood- or block-level, but for persons---meaning for you. Which of our readers is most…
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Third Way Of Probability & Statistics Gets Comments
I just discovered a written comment, actually two, on my sketch-paper "The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill". Now when I…