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In Which I Shockingly Agree With Sabine That Most Science Is Of Little Or No Value
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In Which I Shockingly Agree With Sabine That Most Science Is Of Little Or No Value

Given Sabine's penchant for posting overly shocked thumbnails for her video splash-screens, I present this equivalent dramatic image. I like to tease Sabine Hossenfelder, especially when she chooses to inform…
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Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like This
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Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like This

My last attempt to you convince you to think logically about evidence and reject P-values. Video https://youtu.be/Jj8MIUmzQzU Links: YouTube * Twitter - X * Rumble * Bitchute * Class Page…
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Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is Wee
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Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is Wee

It would be a good joke to conclude "If Pr(Data we didn't see | Cause false) is small then Cause is true", but it isn't. People believe it. Peers review…
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On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It
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On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It

I am not enough of a historian to say whether the Cult of the Victim forms in every dying civilization, but it sure has in ours. A Victim group is…
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Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic
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Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic

The title today is identical to the peer-reviewed paper of the same name in Theory and Society by BVE Hyde. Hyde begins: "This study begins by outlining the transparency paradox:…
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Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong
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Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

We want Pr(Hypothesis true|Evidence) but get Pr(Data we didn't see | Hypothesis false). This makes no sense, but I promise that is what is done. My friends, it gets real…
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Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds
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Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds

I stole that title, ripped it right off, word-for-word, from the Study Finds website, a source rich in The Science exaggerations. I pulled off this heist because I can't think…
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What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study
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What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study

I searched as diligently as I could, which of course means there might be somebody who could search better, but I found no evidence professional golfers develop Parkinson's Diseases (PD)…
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    Darin, There is no interval around a probability (with esoteric exceptions not of interest to us). All your evidence is…

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