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Cornell Professor Exposes His Wee P-values One Too Many Times: All P-values Are P-Hacking
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Cornell Professor Exposes His Wee P-values One Too Many Times: All P-values Are P-Hacking

The over-production of wee p-values led to the downfall of Cornell Professor Brian Wansink, who is being made to retire (with what we can guess is a comfortable "package"). We…
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A Flood Of Evidence: From God To Noah To Hume To Nobody
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A Flood Of Evidence: From God To Noah To Hume To Nobody

Here are remarks on "Enlightenment & Sacrifice -- Remarks on Joseph de Maistre" by Thomas Bertonneau, which I urge you to read in full. Bertonneau is reading de Maistre's Elucidation…
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Woke Science: Diversity In Physics
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Woke Science: Diversity In Physics

"Physics is the least diverse of the sciences," begins our article, a signal that we start in the depths, and have no choice but to begin the labor of digging…
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The Mathematics Of Santa Claus’ Present Delivery System
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The Mathematics Of Santa Claus’ Present Delivery System

It's the time of year when people begin asking the very pertinent question: How does Santa Claus do it? How does he get all those presents to all those kids…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part I New (Free) Software Introduction
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part I New (Free) Software Introduction

Introduction Here's what we always want, but never get, using the old ways of doing statistics: The probability that some proposition Y is true given certain assumptions. Like this:     …
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Using P-Values To Diagnose “Trends” Is Invalid
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Using P-Values To Diagnose “Trends” Is Invalid

Look at the picture, which is real data, but disguised to obscure its source. It is a physical measurement taken monthly by a recognized authority. The measurements are thought to…
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Probability Of Abiogenesis? There Isn’t One
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Probability Of Abiogenesis? There Isn’t One

Remember before when we agreed nothing has a probability? Bully. So if no thing has a probability, neither does abiogenesis, since abiogenesis is a thing. Since abiogenesis is a thing…
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Choose Predictive Over Parametric Every Time
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Choose Predictive Over Parametric Every Time

Gaze and wonder at picture which heads this article, which I lifted from John Haman's nifty R package ciTools. The numbers in the plot are made up whole cloth to…
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