Posted inFun Statistics
Predictions For 2016—Register Yours Today!
It's that time of year again. Time to put your reputation on the line and show us your pudding, if that is the metaphor I want. Even if it isn't,…
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How’d We Do On Our 2015 Predictions?
The answer to the post title's question is: I'm not so sure. Because why? Because the predictions everybody registered were lost when I was hacked last January. Why was I…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Gettier Problems & Epistemic Luck Are Distractions And No Problem
Regular readers will recall I do not think so-called Gettier problems have any force in epistemology. The "problems" only crop up because people make two mistakes: forgetting the difference between…
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Theories Don’t Have Probabilities: Or, Is The Multiverse Real?
There was in Munich last week a three-day workshop on the soul of science. According to Quanta Magazine, the conference was driven by George Ellis and Joe Silk who wrote…
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Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”
Today, since I'm very busy, a small-ish review---mere comments, really---of "Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse" by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via…
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Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21
Today's post is at The Stream: "December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21". President Hollande of France slid to the microphone, and, with great Gallic aplomb, announced December 12th,…
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FiveThirtyEight Weighs In With Some Odd Affirmative Action Statistics
FiveThirtyEight ran the piece "Here's What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions" that ran some dicey stats. Affirmative Action is, as all know, the practice of rewarding…
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Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men?
There are no such thing as the "odds" a panel would be "randomly" all men. Yet The Atlantic thinks there could be, and so does a fellow named Greg Martin,…