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Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation

Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and…

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Uncertainty Interviewed By Brett Stevens at Amerika

Scoot on over to Amerika, where there is an interview with Yours Truly, focused on the philosophy of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics. Excerpt: You also write…

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Complete List Of All Moral & Ethical Questions Answered By Science

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Stream: Why The Polls Stunk Up The Place

Today's post is at the Stream: Why The Polls Stunk Up The Place. Boy, were the pros' polls and predictions lousy. And not just lousy, malodorous. And worse than malodorous,…

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On The Cubs’ & Trump’s Victories, Nate Silver’s Predictions & All That

https://twitter.com/ThaRightStuff/status/794045050753794048 Some crow is presumably being eaten by Nate Silver and the folks at FiveThirtyEight.com this fine morning. I recommend they bake it into a pie (which I learnt from…

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A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability

Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…

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Media Lying With Polls? Is The Pope…Er…Ah, Never Mind

Today's post is at The Stream: Be Skeptical of the Polls: Is the media lying to boost Hillary? Note: I'm putting the Summary Against Modern Thought Sunday series on hiatus…

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Why Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer

Opening sentence of the abstract in the peer-reviewed paper "When Meat Gets Personal, Animals' Minds Matter Less: Motivated Use of Intelligence Information in Judgments of Moral Standing" in Social Psychological…

Johnno on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 6, 2025
Put these academics in a box and ship them in a chilled container to General BBQ in Haiti in time…
Johnno on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 6, 2025
BRIGGS YOU FOOL! This is good news! Put all of the lady conscripts on the front lines! I'll be here…
Johnno on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 6, 2025
That may happen JH, but some persons are very obviously objectively everyone-saw-him-in-plain-sight absolutely guilty. In fact it is overwhelmingly rare…
Brian (bulaoren) on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 6, 2025
I am not surprised by these findings, just as I will not be surprised if a subsequent study finds that…
Pk on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 6, 2025
crashed near Gilligan's island. . .now that's funny!