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Independent Rating Of University Degrees
The University of Akron is, so this story says, offering to buy out half of is faculty. Half. How many administrators it will buy out or fire is not said.…
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A Failed Argument Against Free Will: Predicting Actions
It is always hilarious when people rail against free will, who are especially flummoxed that Common Man believes in free will, and say "If only people realized their choices weren't…
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There Are No Such Thing As Gays (Or Transexuals)
Yours Truly is a statistician; indeed, the Statistician to the Stars! I call myself that because I perform probability analyses for money (and only for the best people). Yet I…
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On Over-Certainty In GMO Beliefs
Only a minor point about GMOs today. Here's how the Ars Technica "On GMO safety, the fiercest opponents understand the least" opens: "Science is our most effective means of understanding…
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Who We Are, And Who We Are Not — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
The article "The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses", by Eran Elhaik only now pooped into my Inbox. It came out in 2013,…
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This Week In Doom — Celebrity Meat Edition
Item Abortion until birth in New York State. In a democracy, what is voted yes on becomes both true and moral. Maranatha. Item Everyone Stop Everything. What Is This? A…
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Equality Is False — In Aptitude, Intelligence, Ability. What Are The Consequences?
Listen to this: Brothers and sisters: There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different…
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A Case Of Bad Statistics In An IQ-Intelligence Study
We're going to soon talk more about "IQ" and "intelligence". I'm working on a more in-depth article on the subject to carefully explicate the vast over-certainties I see on "both…