Posted inPhilosophy
How to Cheat: Stats 101 Chapter 14
Here is the link. I've decided to jump ahead a few chapters. Chapters 10 - 13 are very important and cover material that comprises 90% of all the actual statistics…
Posted inStatistics
Shifting Baselines Syndrome
If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…
Posted inStatistics
Wrong -> Immoral -> Illegal?
Says Paul Krugman, a writer for a local New York paper, The only way we’re going to get action, I’d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of…
Posted inStatistics
Random global warming nuttiness
Many people have been sending me various tidbits about rampant global warming insanity, but it's taking me a long time to get round to posting them. This darn book of…
Posted inPhilosophy
Science is decided by committee
Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of…
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Just what are falling temperatures evidence of?
If increasing temperatures are consistent with or are evidence of global warming, what theory is consistent with or evidence of falling temperatures? Global warming, too? We have to ask this…
Posted inCulture
The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II
STUDY DESIGN As I mentioned last time, it is crucial to design a test that eliminates all possibility and suspicion of cheating. If the KIBS kids were going to demonstrate…
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Did a psychic solve the Tabitha Horn murder case?
This was an investigation that I did a long time ago, but I never properly wrote up. I was inspired to finally do so by reading Joe Nickell's similar sleuthing…
