Posted inPhilosophy
Peer review
Here is how peer review roughly works. An author sends a paper to a journal. An editor nearly always sends the paper on to two or more referees. The referees…
Posted inFun
800 gram balls: Key words in my log files
Every now and then I have a glance at my log files to see what kinds of key words people type into sites like Google and who are subsequently directed…
Posted inStatistics
Is climatology a pseudoscience?
The short answer, I will disappoint many of you by saying, is no. Like I wrote before, climatologists are generally nice people genuinely struggling with understanding the immense complexities of…
Posted inStatistics
New York Times debate on AGU statement
The American Geophysical Union, of which I am a member, has, like many other organizations, e.g. the ASA, issued a statement concurring with the IPCC report. The text of that…
Posted inStatistics
National Post says statisticians needed too
Canada's National Post, in a piece from a little more than a year ago, made a call for more statisticians to be involved in climate change research, much as the…