Anybody see this one?
The book is The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Steve Ziliak. From the description at Amazon:…
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Health care crisis!?
Take a look at his picture: This is from an article by "The Numbers Guy" Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal. The story is about how life expectancy calculators…
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Uncle Ted’s Manifesto: Ted, White, & Blue: a review
Read Ted, White, & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto. You will not agree with everything, some or lot of it might even infuriate you, but you not regret the time spent.…
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Random topics
I use the word "random" in the sense that you did not know what topics I would select today. And I use the word know in its logical sense. On…
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Science is decided by committee
Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of…
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Don Imus Radio Show: a review
If you follow radio, you will know that Don Imus was fired last year for his hip hop-inspired "nappy-headed hos" comment. For this quip, he was cast outside the gate…
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Bad news for Bonobo
It turns out---shockingly, to some correct-thinking academics---that the bonobo ape is just as bloodthirsty as the rest of the higher primates. Yes, it's true. Bonobos, a sex- and peace-loving species…
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Peer Review Not Perfect: Shocking Finding
The way peer review works is broken, according to a new finding by John Ioannidis and colleagues in their article "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science". The authors liken…