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Guilty People Aren’t Guilty, Innocent People Are
The man who took the knife and slit the throat of the woman whose money and body he wanted could not help himself. But the judge who sentenced that man…
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Climate Science And Significance: Wall Street Journal Takes On Statistics
Coin Flips and Dice Rolls Doug Keenan has a must-read piece in the Wall Street Journal on the time series analysis of global temperature (Thanks to Randy, Roger, and John…
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California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist
The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently…
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I Am The Cause Of All Discrimination In The United States Of America
Today's post is at Pajama's Media, "The Cause of All Discrimination? Me: One man makes a shocking confession." Logically, if there is discrimination, there must be discriminators and discriminatees. Who,…
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Dear English Rioter
Dear English Rioter, I suppose it wasn't hard to learn how to fill light bulbs with ammonia (nasty stuff). But how did you bring yourself to throw that first one…
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March Madness Tournament Analysis: Which Seed Has Best Chance Of Winning?
Most know what the structure of the March Madness basketball tournament looks like. I am not most; I had to look it up; what I don't know about college basketball…
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Religion May Become Extinct, Experts
In 1850 in the Netherlands nearly everybody was a Christian. A century later, three out of four said they still were. But if you believe mathematicians Daniel Abrams and Haley…
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Do The Rich Pay Their Fair Share?
The answer depends on which country you live. In the United States, the rich not only pay their "fair" share, they pay more. Even stronger, wealthy American citizens pay more…