Search Results for “chance” – Page 79

Monty Hall And This Video Prove Probability Is Measure Of Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-I0bAuEUE This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. This post is really an excuse to highlight a cute video that's being…

Statistics

The Logic Puzzle That Is “Stumping The Internet.” Update: Now With Solution

The Washington Post thinks the puzzle above is hideously difficult and says that it has become an "obsession". The writer there certainly finds it sweat-inducing: "As the problem spread far…

Culture

Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act & The End Of Democracy

Many people sincerely believe Indiana's RFRA new law will allow private individuals to "discriminate" against those who suffer from same-sex attraction. This shows two things: that propaganda works, and that…

Culture Philosophy

128 Million Bigots (Including Your Mother): Gmarriage By The Numbers. Updates

Your Mother Is Evil Latest Gallup survey showed about 40% of citizens did not support gmarriage. According to gmarriage supporters, those who oppose gmarriage are bigots. Since mostly older people…

Philosophy Statistics

What Are The Chances Of That?

Go ahead and ask me. I'll even pretend to laugh. Just as I chuckle warmly with you when you quote Mark Twain (or Disraeli) abut damned lies. (Secretly, I'll be…

Philosophy Statistics

Don’t Use Statistics Unless You Have To

We're finally getting it, as evinced by the responses to the article "Netherlands Temperature Controversy: Or, Yet Again, How Not To Do Time Series." Let's return to the Screaming Willies.…

Culture Philosophy

Jerry Coyne Has A Go At Pope Francis. Shoots Self In Foot

Since it's Halloween, we may as well examine the spooks, hobgoblins, and bogeymen which taunt and haunt the minds of our public undead, which is to say, our intellectuals. Now…

Statistics

Doc Asks Fellows To Keep Statistics Simple

Our friend Christos Argyropoulos (â€@ChristosArgyrop) to a popular medical site in which Stephen Reznick asks "Keep statistics simple for primary care doctors." He can't read the journals, because why? Because…

Outis on Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women DistractingJuly 27, 2025
I suspect this research will be up for an igNobel prize.
SATVRDAY EARLY-AFTERNOON TOP-10 - BIG PULPIT on Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women DistractingJuly 26, 2025
[…] A Kaleidoscope of Recollections of George Cardinal Pell – Carl E. Olson at Cthlc World Report3. Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find…
SATVRDAY EARLY-AFTERNOON EDITION - BIG PULPIT on Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women DistractingJuly 26, 2025
[…] Reception Of The Eucharist Replace Confession? – Jenna M. Cooper at Our Sunday VisitorPeer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At…
spaceranger on Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women DistractingJuly 25, 2025
I thought this was one of the strategies the casinos use to give the house an edge.
Rudolph Harrier on Only Credentialed Artists Can Appreciate ThisJuly 25, 2025
Frank Frazetta and Larry Elmore did more for art than 95% of modern "artists."