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Second Annual Pass On Briggs Day
It's that special time of year, dear reader. The moment has once again come to tell the world of this fine blog. I have done the calculation: if every one…
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The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite
Everybody says the "gold standard" of experimentation, and especially clinical trials, is the randomized controlled trial. A typical view is that "A Randomized Controlled Trial is an experiment or study…
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation
The highlight was the Polish Festival in Boyne Falls, which featured a beer tent at which was served only Budweiser, hot dogs that were labeled "kielbasa", golabki covered in tomato…
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Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part II
Be sure to read yesterday's post first. One of the screwy consequences of classical statistics is that my odd sample (mixing babies and the patients from the brain cancer ward)…
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Manzi: What Social Science Does—and Doesn’t—Know
This article is nothing but an extended link to a must-read piece in City Journal. Internet still once daily. Thanks to reader I. for suggesting this topic. If you haven't…
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Correlation and Causality: Have A Drink, Get Rich
I am down to one brief internet connection daily, found, intermittently, at a coffee shop in town. I apologize for lack of or slowness in answering questions. According to the…
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Three Cards: One Black, One Red, One Half & Half
Just a short one today, all. I'm heading further North. So far from civilization that when I was a boy, it was a cause to celebrate when a cit thirty…
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A Time To Celebrate!
I am, once more, reliving my Air Force days. I am strapped into a seat designed for a midget, jetting across the Wild Blue towards the shores of Lake Michigan,…