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Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”
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Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”

I'm stealing this from Spectator, which has done science right. It shows the UK's SAGE Expert models for covid. In each case, the gray and others colors are the model…
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The Field Of Statistics Is Doomed — Unless It Abandons Testing & Parameter-Based Analysis
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The Field Of Statistics Is Doomed — Unless It Abandons Testing & Parameter-Based Analysis

The first part of this article also appears at the Broken Science Initiative. Go there to read it, too, and many other good ones by other authors. We already saw…
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The Regime’s New De Facto “AI” Law And The End Of Pattern Recognition
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The Regime’s New De Facto “AI” Law And The End Of Pattern Recognition

News is that Regime put out a new law, bypassing Congress as usual, in the form of an "executive order", about "AI". The new law's title is "Safe, Secure, and…
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What Is a Model of a Model of a Model? “Climate Change”!
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What Is a Model of a Model of a Model? “Climate Change”!

One of our main themes is Uncertainty. In short, there is not enough of it, especially in Science. Which is to say, there is a surfeit of certainty. We drown…
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Here’s How They Say Conservatives Are Destroying Science
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Here’s How They Say Conservatives Are Destroying Science

My favorite headline of late is from Stat, which I'll reveal in a brief moment. First, as I was discovering that headline, I saw the site's top crawl, which asked…
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First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita
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First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita

The FBI released its crime report for 2022, and I thought it instructive for us to examine homicide numbers. Homicides from 1985--2022. Now it is, or should be, obvious that…
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades---decades, he says---to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search…
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Experts Addle Kids’ Minds Over “Climate Change”
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Experts Addle Kids’ Minds Over “Climate Change”

Question from Anon: Why are the left so afraid of climate change? What is they want to preserve exactly? The whole concept doesn't pass the simplest credibility check. They want…
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    Never mind P values, follow the money.

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    @Cary, actually I heard the P values were actually really good in that study, but then the scientist couldn't believe…

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    I just read an article that claimed ice cream is healthy food. I love ice cream, but for the last…

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    Sometimes the "P" is silent, as in "swimming pool".

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