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On That New Genes & Intelligence Paper

Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…

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Free Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part I

Regular readers know Uncertainty proposes we go back to the old way of examining and making conclusions about data, and eschew many innovations of the 20th Century. No p-values, no…

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To Put America First Is To Put Our Planet’s Climate First — With Critical Updates

Breitbart: To Put America First Is to Put Our Planet's Climate First. On June 2, 2017, in a Letter regarding US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement addressed to the MIT…

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Trump’s Election Causing Disease!

Update The links below are now working! Sorry for the screw up. Stream: Trump's Election Causing Disease! A writer for the Washington Post who won the same journalism prize as…

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E-Classes (& Other Changes) Coming

Many changes coming.. Site fixes You've seen the new theme by now. Many more people were reading on "devices" and the old format was not well suited. Plus, the typography…

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Ross Douthat’s Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe

Stream: Ross Douthat's Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe. This article is in answer to Ross Douthat's, a.k.a. Lt Keefer's, column "Neither Hot Nor Cold on Climate" in which he impugned…

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Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris!

Stream: Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris! So long, fair well, auf weidersehen, goodbye. A typical reaction, this from guy named Matt Stoller, a Fellow at the Open Markets…

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Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I

See part II. Pictured above is an abacus. As it looks, it is in the configuration for the number 68,170,000. It has other configurations which represent other numbers. This particular…

Paul Murphy on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
hey doc Steven Hayward's substack post on "Pope Bob" https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/pope-bob includes an image and summary of a book on "evaluative…
JH on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
Probability is defined on a sigma field. But what exactly is a sigma field? In simpler terms, it represents the…
Johnno on Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?May 9, 2025
What are the political leanings of the naturally elotrocuted, and can we use them for our cause, or does their…
Paul Fischer on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
Always thought-provoking, William. The comments section’s a bit hostile today. To really grasp what Matt is driving at, you have…
Briggs on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
JH, My IQ is simplicity itself to estimate. I have no IQ. Pick up any stats books and look under…