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What Are P-Values?
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, ...I'd still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the…
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Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, "As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most", a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
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Time To Donate!
Time for the semi-annual call to contribute! Do this The best way to ensure the continued existence of this backwater block is to pass on articles that you like, or…
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Let’s Talk About The Trans Movement: Part I — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis
The transgender movement has hit an unsuspecting public like a ton of bricks. There have been harbingers, but they were easily dismissed. How many tourists have innocently wandered into a…
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Australia Goes Full Anti-Catholic, Forces Priests To Violate Confessional
The Australian state of Victoria has passed an anti-Catholic law, which they believe would force priests to reveal what happened in the confessional. So reports The Age. The Victorian government…
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Nice To Eat You
They're working hard at ensuring Soylent Green was a documentary. Next time you go to a megacorporate restaurant and it tries to sell you trendy "impossible" or "mystery" meat, make…
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On That Fluoride-IQ Study & Statistical Silliness
I am in the Northwoods at the water's edge, far from the teeming masses, and I only had time to glance through this new study that claims that women who…
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How Can Any Religion Have A Monopoly On Truth?
Soak this up (emphasis original): By the time she turned up in New York, [Justina Walford's] faith had long since unraveled, a casualty of overseas travel that made her question…