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Quack Cures for What Doesn’t Ail Us — The Video of the Year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8CH50L7lPg This was my presentation from 35th Annual Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting, August 12, 2017, New Orleans, LA. My computer's sound card died so I cannot hear my dulcet…
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JASA: The Substitute for P-Values

The paper is finally out! The Substitute for p-Values. Here from the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 112, 2017, Issue 519, Pages 897-898 is the abstract (this paper…
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How To Resolve All Probability Paradoxes: Apples In Sack Example

Via Alexander Bogomolny?: At 1 minute to midnight 10 apples fall into a sack. The same happens at half a minute to midnight, then at a quarter minute to midnight,…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part II

Read Part I first. On the subject of Islamic violence (see the picture leading the article), Pew says: While overall public views have shifted only modestly, the partisan gap on…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part I

Pew has a survey out which measures, sort of, our increasing political and cultural apartness (a.k.a. apartheid). The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger…
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The Most Depressing (Government) Graph

Stream: The Most Depressing (Government) Graph There is no one picture that can capture the inexorable rise and reach of Leviathan, but if you had to pick just one, the…
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How Suspicious Is It To Win The Lottery Multiple Times?

So this Pennsylvanian named Nadine Vukovich "a Mechanicsburg veterinarian, has claimed 209 scratch tickets, each worth $600 or more, over 12 years. Collectively she's won about $350,000." This streak caused…
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SJWs Coming For Mathematics

Stream: SJWs Coming For Mathematics Great news! For those kids who will be taught math by teachers graduating from Texas State University's Math Education program, life just got easier. This…
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