Posted inFun
Time To Fast: I’m Giving Up The Internet For Lent
Our friend Jay Richards, editor of The Stream, has an excellent on-going series on fasting. In Part II, he discusses how our Lord fasted for forty days. By fasted Richards…
Posted inStatistics
Global Warming: Thirty Years Of Hype, Hysteria & Hullabaloo
In the late spring of 1988, Senator Tim Wirth from Colorado (guess his party) called the Weather Bureau and asked what historically was the hottest day of the year in…
Posted inClass Statistics
Example Of How To Eliminate P-values & Their Replacement
Many, many more details are available in Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics and at this page. Last time we learned that the way to do probability models…
Posted inStatistics
Eliminate The P-Value (and Bayes Factor) Altogether & Replace It With This
Good news and bad news. Good news it that there is a growing number of people who are aware that p-values are sinking science and they want to do something,…
Posted inStatistics
Real Versus Fake Fake News: Update
Stream: Real Versus Fake Fake News On the last day of bad old year, Lake Superior State University released its 43rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English…
Posted inStatistics
In A Democracy, Everything Is Political. Even Science.
Stream: On the Left, Bad Politics Leads to Bad Science (Insanity & Doom updates resume after Christmas.) "All I Want For Christmas Is Full Communism Now". Not I. It is…
Posted inStatistics
Middle Ground Between Precautionary Principle & Inaction
From reader (and listener!) Phil Pilkington (there asterisks are original): Hi Matt, Loved your speech. Hyperskeptical Economist that I am, M Taleb did us some great favours in outlining the…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Evil Has A Cause
Previous post. Two chapters this week on the (non-controversial) claim that evil must have a cause. The nature of this cause is, however, of some interest. That Evil Has A…
