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The Absurdity Of Reducing The Income Gap

Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. Mr. George (rising): Madam Speaker, pardon…
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Posted inCulture Statistics

Government Per Capita Spending: Up, Up, And Away! Or, Happy Tax Day!

Here it is, folks. Right from WhiteHouse.gov. The amount of Federal Government spending per capita from 1901 to the present and projected out to 2019. Population projections were taken from…
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How Teachers Learn To Identify Weapons From Non-Weapons

Yet another "educator" has confused the difference between a weapon and the fantasy of one. A 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was suspended from school for two days last week…
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Lawyer Argues We Should Ignore Inconvenient Laws

Ilya Somin calls himself a lawyer, and he probably is one, too. Therefore what he says about the law must be right. Convinced by Somin's arguments, I will later this…
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Science for the State; Or, Lysenko Lives

Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. It sometimes seems that every regime…
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Boys’ Toys V. Girls’ Toys: Researchers Still Trying To Prove They’re The Same

Last Thursday I was at the warthog park at the butt end of 57th street on the East river, reading and enjoying the rare sunshine. Nannies and moms (mostly nannies)…
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Let’s Find And Fire Those Who Support Same-Sex “Marriage”

Please read to the end of the end. You wouldn't want to miss anything important. Bigotry against traditional marriage is unacceptable. Those espousing the unnatural unions of two same-sexed persons…
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Posted inCulture Philosophy

E-Lynching The Politically Incorrect: Mozilla Edition

The most vile sanctimonious ignorant bigoted contemptuous hateful stunted intransigent insolent arrogant unsympathetic cowardly sniveling brutes are found today almost exclusively among progressives, especially its younger varieties. This is the…
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  1. Briggs on Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like ThisSeptember 20, 2025

    Glenn, Clearly my enemies, responsible for all typos, are on the Student's side.

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    The spurious correlation example is the best proof that p values can't be used. That's what you have to hammer…

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    Thanks, this is a very understandable summary of your arguments against p-values and frequentism. There is a mistake in the…

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    Well you convinced me to never use p-values, and how to articulate to others why they shouldn’t either. I’d say…

  5. Ed on Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like ThisSeptember 18, 2025

    As a teacher who's seen, in the eyes of many a student (pun intended), the inglorious mist of complete misunderstanding,…

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