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Solution To The Kind-Hearted Magician — REVEALED!
Kip Hansen last week gave us the following scenario (which I've pared to bare essentials here, but check the original if you fret): START Sam shows us three cards, two…
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Whites Aren’t Human; Therefore They Can Be Eaten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ5SVMSAzs Since they are not born human, and therefore she wouldn't be a cannibal if she consumed one, how many whites do you think Ashleigh The Lion (the name she…
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The Kind-Hearted Magician — Guest Post by Kip Hansen
We have had a lot of seriousness over the last year. Covid Madness, possibly wonky elections, riots of the Left and riots of the Right, petty criminals become heroes and…
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On Having Jewishness—“There Is No Permanent Cure”, Says Scholar
This, apparently, is the first draft of Donald Moss's peer-reviewed paper "On Having Jewishness", the final eventually appearing in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The original Abstract in…
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Hung Jury: The Verdict On Uncertainty
This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate…
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Statistics (Philosophy) Quiz: See If You Really Know What You’re Doing Using Tests
This is from Gerd Gigerenzer's "Mindless statistics" in The Journal of Socio-Economics, 33, (2004) 587–606. Have a go before looking at the answers (I'm giving my own, not quoting Gigerenzer).…
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Woman Who Said Women Have Vaginas Attacked By Invasive Species
The woman, Lisa Keogh, is a law student at Abertay "University", which itself is in a near-frozen wasteland of strange and curious creatures, which were once largely unknown in the…
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The Coming Spiritual Trial — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? In just over four months, we have seen four years of progress, halting as it was, evaporate into thin air. Oil, gas, coal.…