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Breaking: Wind From Tropical Cyclones Cure Hemorrhoids
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Breaking: Wind From Tropical Cyclones Cure Hemorrhoids

Lost count of the number of "studies" that feel---not think---that they must invoke terror to justify their undertaking. Take this peer-reviewed gem from Nature Communications by Robbie M. Parks and…
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CDC Flashes Its Wee P At Us In Thin Effort To Uphold The Cult of the Mask:  Coronavirus Update LVI
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CDC Flashes Its Wee P At Us In Thin Effort To Uphold The Cult of the Mask: Coronavirus Update LVI

EXPERTS FLASH THEIR WEE P Masks are the uniform of the effeminate. You'll have heard by now of CDC's latest mask study, in which grown experts flash their wee p-values…
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The Danish Mask Study Shows Masks Aren’t Worth It
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The Danish Mask Study Shows Masks Aren’t Worth It

HUFFIN', PUFFIN' & BLUFFIN' The blustery squid-stained panicked hersteric Nassim Nicholas Taleb---the man who called those who dared not run around screeching like teenage girls as he did at the…
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BLACK! Babies Die At White Doctors’ Hands! Wee Ps Say So
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BLACK! Babies Die At White Doctors’ Hands! Wee Ps Say So

Week or two back the world was shocked to learn that white doctors were killing BLACK! babies. Not the ones that haven't escaped their mothers' wombs: that's old, and even…
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Probability Thought Experiment With NNT: Reader Question
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Probability Thought Experiment With NNT: Reader Question

From reader Ernst, this interesting probability/statistics question. First, NNT = number needed to treat, which is, stealing from this site to save time, "The Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is…
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Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners
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Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners

Today's post title is stolen from a paper by the same name "Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners: Do Trends Vary by Gender, Race, and Class?" in Gender &…
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Over-Certainty of Polygenic Scores
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Over-Certainty of Polygenic Scores

This is really a Part I of a series of articles about the latest trend (fad?) in statistical biology, but I didn't want to label it that way, which would…
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That Cofnas Paper On Research On Group Differences In Intelligence
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That Cofnas Paper On Research On Group Differences In Intelligence

Find by general acclaim the smartest man in the world. Call this man "Group A". Call everybody else "Group B". There will necessarily be a group difference in mean intelligence,…
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    Enough time has passed, since this post went up, for me to feel no need to stick to the topic.…

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    I would also like to point out that slaves often had *better* medical care than their working-class white counterparts, being…

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    Perhaps slave traders found low-intelligence blacks easier to capture, resulting in an intellectually challenged population of blacks in the U.S.…

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    Where do homicide rates fit in?

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    I am morally certain that murdering innocent children for fun and profit is evil. There. That was easy.

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