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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…
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One World Without Borders Would Lead To Tyranny
Hillary, in her own words, said "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders". She said it, but it's not clear if she believes it.…
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Statistical Models CANNOT Show Cause, But EVERYBODY Thinks They Can. Hence the Replication CRISIS
Please pass this on to ANY researcher who uses statistics. Pretty please. With sugar on top. Like I say below, it's far far far far far past time to cease…
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God’s Gift To Molecular Biology: The Hydrogen Bond — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor's note: a version of this post originally appeared at Reflections of a Catholic Science. It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and…