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Help With Reality-Based Catholic Climate Declaration

Update If you're interested in this, please send this post to those you think may be interested. Update 2 Please see the Classic Posts page for material on global warming,…

Class Statistics

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part VIII — Starting Stan

Review! You must at least review the first lessons---all class material is on one page for ease. I'll have more words about the mysticism of simulation, but I've said it…

Culture Statistics

Governments Demand Encryption Backdoors

The Blonde Bombshell warned us about the "Five Eyes". It's illegal for our most beneficent government, which loves us and only wants what is best for us, to spy on…

Culture Statistics

Pew’s Materialistic Mix Up

Pew has a new survey result with title Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations. Key was the picture below---or at their site, bigger and better,…

Statistics

That Paper About Hiring Chief Diversity Officers At Universities

The paper is "The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring" by Steven W. Bradley, James R. Garven, Wilson W. Law, and James E. West. (Thanks to John…

Philosophy Statistics

Judea Pearl Is Wrong On AI Identifying Causality, But Right That AI Is Nothing But Curve Fitting

Yep I've disagreed with Judea Pearl before on causality, and I do so again below; but first some areas of agreement. Some deep agreement at that. Pearl has a new…

Statistics

Chaos & Outrage In The Church — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Chaos and outrage have again engulfed the Church. We must talk about this incredibly ugly and painful boil on the Body of Christ. To lance a boil, you must insert…

Class Statistics

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part VII New (Free) Software Tobit Regression

Previous post in the series (or click above on Class). REVIEW! Download the code: mcmc.pred.R, mcmc.pred.examples.R. If you downloaded before, download again. This is version 0.3! Only the example code…

Aa on Death By Organ DonationAugust 2, 2026
I'm Doctor. I don't trust Doctors at all.
John Pate on Wolfgang Smith For EveryoneJuly 31, 2026
Briggs get a grip. Read this, http://dvc.org.uk/wp/?p=320 and then get back to us about Quantum Entanglement.
Diversity News (July 30, 2026) on Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)July 30, 2026
[…] to be causation, resulting in “wet streets make rain” science. Consider listening to statistics experts who point out how…
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Right out of the old Monty Python skit where the guy was a "liver donor" and the guys came to…
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