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Teaching Journal: Day 1
Truth exists. Therefore, so does falsity. That truth exists is one of the many things we know to be true based on no external evidence. Naturally there are a very…
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We Are All Eugenicists Now: New Test Identifies 3,500 Genetic “Faults” In Fetuses — Update
See the crucial update below. I was assured, several times, that my second son was to be my first daughter. The doctors who told me this had performed certain tests,…
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The Difference Between Technical And Plain English Correlation
Since the subject has come up so often, today a note on the words correlated and correlation. They have technical definitions and plain English meanings. The two definitions overlap but…
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Gloom, Despair, Email Spoofing, And Kahan’s Science Literacy Paper
Somebody spoofed my Yahoo email address which I use for ordering, registrations and the like. Sent hundreds of emails to my contact list yesterday. Now I ordinarily run Linux, which…
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Interest In On-Line Statistics Courses?
You might have heard what happened to when Stanford professor Andrew Ng put his machine learning (a practical kind of statistical modeling) on line. He expected mild interest. One hundred…
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All Forecasts, Predictions, & Prophecies Are Contingent
Yesterday I made the point that Jim Hansen's latest threat of doom was a conditional one. I also said that there was nothing wrong with this. And there isn't. Nothing…
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Statistics Proves Same Drug Both Causes And Does Not Cause Same Cancer
No, the title of today's post is not a joke, even though it has often been used that way in the past. The title was inspired by yesterday's Wall Street…
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Love Of Theory Is The Root Of All Evil
Love of truth, on the other hand, is the root of all that is good. Bill Whittle at PJTV very kindly produced a video entitled "Best. Sentence. Ever." (it…