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Randomized Trials Are Not Needed
I promised this article a long time ago: I hope these well known calculations are enough to give the gist. Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard…
Posted inCulture
Obamacare: Sympathy for Homeopathy?
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was tacked forcibly onto the National Institute of Health after Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) thought more attention ought to…
Posted inPhilosophy
Are All Governments Destined For Failure?
Here's an experiment you can try at home. Gather a set of children's building blocks and form them into a square, flat on the floor. The square can be of…
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Six-year-old Boy Holds Class Hostage, Uses Finger For Gun
The scene was tense Wednesday, 3 March, when Mason Jammer, a student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, Michigan held his kindergarten class hostage by fashioning his finger into the shape…
Posted inStatistics
Final Healthcare Showdown: Government vs. Liberty
There's Nancy Pelosi, Six Gun of State strapped to her side, the sun burning overhead. And there's you, armed only with Freedom, thirty paces off. It's a standoff! If you…
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Climate Model Uncertainty: Part II
Read Part I The Analysis (cont.) Two problems arise when comparing a model's integration (the forecast) with an analysis of new observations, which are not found when comparing the forecast…
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Pajamas Media: President Obama To Make Poverty Permanent
Today's post is at Pajamas Media: President Obama To Make Poverty Permanent. The Obama administration will create a new definition of poverty, one that changes as a function of how…
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Climate Model Uncertainty: Part I
Would you check the results of a model with another model? Before you answer, be sure you know what the question is. A model---whether it is physical, statistical, mathematical, or…