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Harvard Claims CO2 Makes You Stupid

You must be pretty dumb. Not the royal "you". You as in you, dear reader. This isn't me saying it. This is Harvard. Our best university, and therefore our best…

Statistics

The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again — Pesticides & Autism

Long-time readers will recall the epidemiologist fallacy is a shotgun marriage of the ecological fallacy and wee p-values. Make that and/or confidence intervals. For confidence intervals are equivalent to p-values…

Statistics

Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Miscarriages And Air Pollution Edition

I love air pollution. Smells like progress. Good for you. Nothing healthier. Except smoking. There, now that that's out of the way, let's get to the paper "Air pollution-induced missed…

Statistics

Death Blow To Statistical Significance! — Bonus: Here’s The Replacement

Don't miss the Nature article below! (I stole the graphic from it.) Am Stat Here are the opening lines from a press release (unfortunately sounding like every other press release…

Culture

ESG Scores Are A Grift

It didn't take long for DIE and "climate change", slithering slimy sly beasties, to mate and produce an abomination in the eyes of science: the ESG Score. Environmental, Social, Governance…

Fun

Time To Donate!

Time for the semi-annual call to contribute! Do this The best way to ensure the continued existence of this backwater block is to pass on articles that you like, or…

Statistics

Low-Hanging Molecules Have Already Been Picked—Most New Drugs Provide No Benefit

Remember the old stock scam? Call up 1,000 people and tell half Stock A will rise, and tell the other half it will fall. Five hundred people will be slightly…

Statistics

Science Retracts Paper That Claimed Black Babies Born Smaller Because Of Police Violence

See this peer-reviewed, but then-retracted, paper "Police violence and the health of black infants" by some person calling his- or herself Joscha Legewie? After it was peer reviewed by knowledgeable…

E C on Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical StatisticsMay 10, 2025
If I understand your linked article in Academic Questions correctly, it seems frequentism is a classic example of tunnel-vision; or,…
Paul Murphy on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
hey doc Steven Hayward's substack post on "Pope Bob" https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/pope-bob includes an image and summary of a book on "evaluative…
JH on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
Probability is defined on a sigma field. But what exactly is a sigma field? In simpler terms, it represents the…
Johnno on Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?May 9, 2025
What are the political leanings of the naturally elotrocuted, and can we use them for our cause, or does their…
Paul Fischer on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
Always thought-provoking, William. The comments section’s a bit hostile today. To really grasp what Matt is driving at, you have…