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Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds
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Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds

I stole that title, ripped it right off, word-for-word, from the Study Finds website, a source rich in The Science exaggerations. I pulled off this heist because I can't think…
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Class 57: The Second Best Model
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Class 57: The Second Best Model

We want Pr(Y|X) where Y is a question about the world and X all/everything/in toto of what we assume is probative. That's not what we get usually. But we should!…
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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores
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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores

This is a revamped and updated classic post with new material. It first appeared on 6 February 2020. It's time to revisit this topic, as we'll see below. Polygenic scores…
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Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best
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Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best

I forgot to remind you of this week's What Are The Chances? video. A truck carrying 216,000 dice spilled onto the highway, and they said the total was exactly 756,000.…
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Class 52: The Origin Of Parameters
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Class 52: The Origin Of Parameters

Unobservable parameters abound in probability models. Why? Where do they come from? Are they needed? This is our first hardcore math lesson. You must read the written lesson today. WARNING…
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested

I flatter myself that this is the best general thing I have written to explain why you must never, not ever, use a p-value, hypothesis test, "significance", Bayes value, or…
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Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness
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Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness

WARNING! If you're attempting to read this via email and not on the site, you might encounter problems: the text might look like gibberish. The LaTeX interpreter, which I need…
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A Simple Argument Proving You Must Not Trust Standard Scientific Evidence
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A Simple Argument Proving You Must Not Trust Standard Scientific Evidence

In my forced isolation, which was in many ways a gift, I took to thinking of my failures to convince people not to use or trust standard statistical evidence. Here…
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