Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Aside: counterfactuals A counterfactual is statement saying what would be the case if its conditional were…
Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Introduction Time to get technical. First, surf over to Willis Eschenbach's gorgeous piece of statistical detective…
Be sure to visit again tomorrow, for another article in this series. Time is up. Time to fight passion with calm reason. That always works, doesn't it? Those thousands of…
An AP article claims "Militia movement resurfaces across U.S." (link here; though this story differs from the one I read in the San Jose Mercury News). How did they come…
I suppose it was inevitable. People have been watching their 'carbs' for years, or 'carbo loading' before running a race. When I was a kid, only chemists knew what a…
In one Seinfeld episode, Kramer has joined the annual Manhattan AIDS walk but has refused to wear the symbolic twisted red ribbon. He is confronted by an angry group of…