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Big Data, Big Predictions — Big Deal!
The title, you'll be shocked to learn, is sarcastic. You'll forgive the tone after reading NBC's article "Big Data's Big Misses: 2016 Was a Bad Year For Predictions", which opens…
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Stream: Scientists, Women, The Press Think Trump Is Coming For Them
Stream: Scientists, Women, The Press Think Trump Is Coming For Them. Week or so before the election, there was a rumor bumping around the Internet which said Trump, if he…
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How Quickly The Popular Mind Forgets — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
Was it only four short months ago that Donald Trump was excoriated by the press for suggesting that he may not wholeheartedly embrace the election results? In answer to a…
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Stream: Fake News of the Decade? Or, Does Russia Rule The World?
This is posting here a day late, because I had already promised the Vox Day post yesterday. Yet there is still some fun to be had at the Stream: Is…
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Uncertainty Discussed At Vox Popoli
Vox Day kindly reprinted the review of Uncertainty by Jayne at the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Vox also has a copy of the book himself and there may…
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Predictions For 2017—Register Yours Today!
Once more unto the breach! We did well last year, but we had the advantage of a neat unambiguous set of predictions all could make, i.e. the United States primaries…
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How’d We Do On Our 2016 Predictions?
This was an interesting year because we had a general dichotmous proposition of interest to many; or rather, two. Who would win the (Republican) primary and who would win the…
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The Politicization Of Science Organizations: The Firing Of Michael Lubell
What might pass for a small item reveals much about the state of science, and in particular about science organizations. The stately American Physical Society, a political-scientific, or scientific-political, or…