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Experts Say People Aren’t Smart Enough

Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen said recently, "The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid." Jensen represents a common attitude among media denizens that ordinary…

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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part II

Read Part I Statistical Measurements And speaking of measurement, first a word from our sponsor, BrainView Magnetic Window3, the world's leading manufacturer of fMRI devices, the machines which produce colorful…

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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part I

Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga On the evening of October 10th 1769, in one of his typically curt dismissals of…

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The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part IV (finally the end!)

Read Part I, Part II, Part III. This is the missing Part, which was promised a year ago. We're all tired of this subject, and there are so many other…

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The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part III (update)

Read Part I, Part II. The text has again been expanded and corrected. We have our model in hand. "Has the ability", our model, says (see Part II) that the…

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The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part II (update)

Read Part I: Again, the text (up to this part) has been corrected and expanded. Recall our overarching---our only---goal. We want to know whether the sweet old lady "has the…

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The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part I (updated)

Since the subject arose yesterday, and for other reasons which I'll explain later, I thought we should revisit this series, which ran a year ago. I have edited and expanded…

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Statement Of Teaching Philosophy

Regular readers will know that I have been searching for (continuous) employment as a teacher. Most colleges and universities ask applicants to supply "a statement of teaching philosophy", while a…

Brian (bulaoren) on Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG WayOctober 9, 2025
47 > 46
Lou on Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG WayOctober 9, 2025
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Johnno on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 9, 2025
A short extract from "Remarks to the Commonwealth Club" by Michael Crichton, San Francisco, September 15, 2003. "Today, one of…
Uncle Mike on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 8, 2025
Cows don't cause "climate change" whatever that is. Cows don't add new carbon, they recycle it. Cows don't "transgress planetary…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 8, 2025
OK, I will start calling Rob Reiner a vegetable head.