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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part Final: Parameters!

(All the stuff in this series is, in a fuller form, in my new upcoming book, which is tentatively called Logical Probability and Statistics---but I've only changed the title 342…

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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part IV

Read Part III Just review and clarification this time, folks. Dirty hard work. But necessary given the confusion from last post. Time to pump some neurons! Next time we---finally!---get to…

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Prime Minister Kenny’s Abortion Bill Would Save One Life A Year, Take Others

Ireland's Prime Minister Enda---that's Enda, not Edna, the creature---Kenny is being snubbed by Cardinal Sean O'Malley. Reason? Kenny is being "honored" by Barely Catholic---a.k.a. BC, a.k.a. Boston College---because Kenny is…

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Damn Straight News: Manly Men More Likely To Be Conservative

As will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers, but will be a traumatic revelation to the public at large, it has finally been acknowledged in the peer-reviewed literature…

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Coal-Fired Power Plants Fuel Suicide—Or Maybe Sanguinity

Smokestack Seppuku Whatever you do, don't look at that smokestack! Do, and next thing you know you'll be drawing a knife across your throat. Suicide! Or so says the press…

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Angelina Jolie’s Decisions Shouldn’t Necessarily Be Yours

Men ordinarily don't like writing about women's breasts, but I had so many emails asking me why Angelina Jolie decided to part with hers that I felt we had better…

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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part III

Following Part II, here are some examples to show the differences between objectivist, subjectivist, and frequentist probabilities derived from fixed premises and set conclusions. Example 1 Not all probability is…

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A Common Fallacy In Global Warming Arguments

Our post today is provided by Terry Oldberg, M.S.E., M.S.E.E., P.E. Engineer-Scientist, Citizen of the U.S. That's a lot of letters, Terry! Oldberg joined our Spot the Fallacy Contest, which…

Eyrie on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025
Old SF novel by Norman Spinrad "Bug Jack Barron". Once castigated in the Brit House of Lords, so worth reading.
KGB on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025
My Taiwanese wife has been obsessing over this case for the past couple weeks. Whether she was explaining it in…
Brian (bulaoren) on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025
My sincerest apologies for misspelling a name in my previous post. I was, of course, referring to "Ayesha" from the…
Brian (bulaoren) on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025
Yes, Putin and Xi are, at age 72, getting a bit haggard. Speaking of Haggard; his character Aisha (the must…
Uncle Mike on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025
Ah yes, the one-eyed Uyghur conspiracy. Parting out the slaves like wrecked cars. The global billionaires are vampires, if not…