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Looks like an own goal to me
Friend of humanity, meteorologist, and philosopher Tom Hamill reminds us of this clip: Which reminds me to this clip, one of the very few songs the lyrics of which I…
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Why probability isn’t relative frequency: redux
(Pretend, if you have, that you haven't read my first weak attempt. I'm still working on this, but this gives you the rough idea, and I didn't want to leave…
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Not all uncertainty can be quantified
(This essay will form, when re-written more intelligently, part of Chapter 15, the final Chapter, of my book. Which is coming....soon? The material below is not easy nor brief, folks.…
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The limits of statistics: black swans and randomness
The author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, has penned the essay THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS over at Edge.org…
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Roger Kimball’s Challenge
The famous writer Roger Kimball has issued a challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up…
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The B.S. octopus
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…
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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…
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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…