Posted inCulture Philosophy
Stars In Our Eyes, Rotting Our Minds
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
Posted inPhilosophy
I’m An Expert: I Must Be Right
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
Posted inFun
The Cultural Event Of The Year! Or, What I Did On My Summer Vacation
No Homework Turned In? I see I mystified most of you last week with that series of technical articles showing how easy it is to generate The Science. Very few…
Posted inStatistics
How To Discover Any Trend You Want In Climate Time Series
Day five of the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author…
Posted inStatistics
How Smoothing Time Series Generates Massive Over-Certainty
Day four of the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author…
Posted inClass Statistics
Signal + Noise vs. Signal: Don’t Make This Classic Mistake
Day three of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change". Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I am on vacation…
Posted inStatistics
The Ugly Unreality Of The Homogenization Of Time Series: Why Climate Scientists Are Too Sure Of Themselves
Day two of the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change". Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I…
Posted inStatistics
Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!
Welcome to the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has…