Posted inStatistics
We made Joker!
UPDATE: apologies to those who tried to comment from 1 am to 5 am EST Wednesday. My hosting service was doing maintenance and comments were locked out. All is well…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Theory confirmation and disconfirmation
Time for an incomplete mini-lesson on theory confirmation and disconfirmation. Suppose you have a theory, or model, about how some thing works. That thing might be global warming, stock market…
Posted inStatistics
Evidence the world isn’t completely going to hell
It isn't all bad out there. There's even grounds that the corporate sense of humor has returned, given that I saw Borders stack Anna Quindlen in its "Literature" section. More…
Posted inFun
I’m thinking of turning to crime
He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial…
Posted inFun
Playing catch up
When I was out, a lot of people sent me leads and links which I did not have time to upload. Here are a few of them. * Many people…
Posted inCulture
The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II
STUDY DESIGN As I mentioned last time, it is crucial to design a test that eliminates all possibility and suspicion of cheating. If the KIBS kids were going to demonstrate…
(Ex-Army Captain) Kyle Smith gets his statistics right
Mull this one carefully. Say a mammogram is 90 percent accurate at spotting patients with breast cancer, and 93 percent accurate at spotting those without breast cancer. Breast cancer afflicts…
Posted inCulture
Unnecessary hypervigilance in parks: no unaccompanied adults!
I think that sign came from England. Here in the States, we have the similar sign but in picture form---a lone adult with a circle around him and a slash…