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Why The Bootstrap Seems To Work—And Why It Produces Over-Certainty
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Why The Bootstrap Seems To Work—And Why It Produces Over-Certainty

Let's drag the statistician's hoary threadbare ball-filled bag out of the cupboard to make a point. In it are 3 white balls and 2 black. Using the statistical syllogism, we…
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Summary Against Modern Thought:  Celestial Bodies Don’t Control Our Will
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Celestial Bodies Don’t Control Our Will

Previous post. Celestial bodies don't control our intellects or wills; though they may control our bodies. Well, the moon's gravitation, for instance, does do something to us. THAT THE CELESTIAL…
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The Doomsday Argument Is Doomed: Flawed Application Of Bayes
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The Doomsday Argument Is Doomed: Flawed Application Of Bayes

The WSJ on 27 June 2019 published an essay by William Poundstone on the hoary Doomsday Argument. Many are fooled by this equation, which contains a fundamental, even glaring, flaw.…
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Sphere Eversion, Free Will & Infinite Powers
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Sphere Eversion, Free Will & Infinite Powers

Can a sphere be turned inside out, such that the outside becomes the inside, and vice versa, without creasing or tearing or poking a hole in the sphere? Obviously not.…
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Witchcraft Is Spellbinding To Our Elites
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Witchcraft Is Spellbinding To Our Elites

Many will argue it was inevitable that women's "liberation" would give rise to witchcraft. Women have a greater need than men for the emotional, especially in matters of love and…
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SAT’s Adversity Score New Way To Enforce Racial Quotas
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SAT’s Adversity Score New Way To Enforce Racial Quotas

The College Board will soon attach Pity Points to SAT scores. The Pity Points will be used to suggest that those who scored poorly did not in fact score poorly…
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Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods
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Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods

Some comments on the JAMA: Internal Medicine article "An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" by Richard Lehman. Drugs increase fast, and…
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Six Thousand Years Of History
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Six Thousand Years Of History

If you ask a physicist "Why can't objects go faster than light? That there should be a limit doesn't seem right to me", he will abuse you. He'll start off…
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