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The Falls-Disproportionately-On-The-Poor Fallacy
Still on the road; something quick. Like the good Bishop said, and said well, "If we ignore the poor, we will go to hell: literally." The poor figure in two…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Science Officially Runs Out Of Things To Study
The headline in the peer-reviewed Physiology & Behavior paper by Soojin Park and Weon-Sun Shin says it all: "Differences in eating behaviors and masticatory performances by gender and obesity status".…
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Journalist Bias For Sale Vs. Academic Freedom: More On The Soon Pseudo-Controversy
Two parts to this. An email exchange with a reporter, and the column he eventually wrote. Regular readers know I've been documenting these so other can people can see just…
Posted inCulture Fun Statistics
For The Love Of Models: A Global Warming Allegory
A very odd thing happened in Science. Turns out a famous weatherman has been forecasting highs in the 60s then 70s for New York City all winter long. But the…
Posted inStatistics
Response To Trenberth Over “Why Models Run Hot”
Update Be sure to come back on Sunday and see my wrap-up column. A reporter from Nature who could not be brought to understand science was more important than fallacy…
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How Good Is That Model? Scoring Rules For Forecasts: Part I
Part I of III All probability (which is to say, statistical) models have a predictive sense; indeed, they are only really useful in that sense. We don't need models to…
Posted inFun
First Computers, Radios & The Death Of Radio Shack
There it is. The TRS-80 Model I---with cassette storage! Z-80 microprocessor; over 4000 bytes of user memory, a.k.a. RAM, which---I shudder to write it---is well over 30,000 bits! I can't…
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That “1-in-27 Million Chance That Earth’s Record Hot Streak Is Natural” Is Preposterous
This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. We met a lot of bad statistics over the years, but this one wins…