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Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges
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Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable
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Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”
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Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”

A trio of academics, responsible for the paper "Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children", did not mention Lindsay Clancy by name, but you will forgive my lapse into clickbait titling…
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Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?

Since we're careening into the last full weekend of a summer that was too brief, and has already exited my far north sanctuary---the maples are already colored---, and since Class…
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Headlines blared that children growing up when the UK rationed sugar, a severe act resulting from one of their many wars, caused these…
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!

https://youtu.be/PnW39ywWotc Lyrics [Verse 1]Oh the scientists are publishin', crankin' out those papers fastThey got a tiny pee-value, think they made it at long lastPoint oh five or lower, they shout…
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?

Let's take something silly and turn it into something shiny. And, in doing so, relearn the invaluable lesson that nothing has a probability. Somebody posted this receipt from a sale…
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Next time you slide a Pringle over your tonsils, blame God. It was your unhealthy attitude to religion that made you crave that Oreo. Your inability to think proper thoughts…
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