Jonathan Bate, of Standpoint, recently wrote an essay “The wrong idea of a university”: It used to work like this. Dr Bloggs, the brilliant scholar who had solved the problem of the […]
A Rhetorical Question
A tip of the hat to Dennis Dutton’s Arts and Letters Daily where this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education appeared. Incidentally, since the Chronicle bought out A&LD, there have been […]
Wired’s theory: the end of theory
Chris Anderson, over at Wired magazine, has written an article called The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Anderson, whose thesis is that we no longer need […]
Variant on a theme
We, dear readers, have earlier dealt with the nonsensical argument, of which an Enlightened few are excessively fond, “There is no truth.” This is an argument often employed by those who embrace […]
How to Cheat: Stats 101 Chapter 14
Here is the link. I’ve decided to jump ahead a few chapters. Chapters 10 – 13 are very important and cover material that comprises 90% of all the actual statistics that is […]
Starting to lose you: Stats 101 Chapter 9
Here is the link. The going started getting tough last Chapter. It doesn’t get any easier here. But stick with it, because once you finish with this Chapter you will see the […]
Stats 101: Chapter 8
Here is the link. This is where it starts to get complicated, this is where old school statistics and new school start diverging. And I don’t even start the new new school. […]
Stats 101: Chapter 6
It was one of those days yesterday. I got two chapters up, but did not give anybody a way to get them! Here it is These are the last two “basics” Chapters. […]
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