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Dear Quacks & Experts: Your Loss Function Is Not Our Loss Function

Note to the colleague who wrote me. I lost your email! You asked excellent questions about the post Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix, which I meant…

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Why (Scott Alexander’s) Bayesian Rationality Fails

Scott Alexander, late of Slate Star Codex, and New York Times doxee, is the subject of Curtis Yarvin nee Moldbug's latest. Rather, Alexander's (and Moldbug's? see postscript) Bayesian rationality is.…

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Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix

A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, "Doc, I saw that new…

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Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent

Editor's note I have strong views on statistical "significance", confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his…

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UK Madness Level Turned To 11: Coronavirus Upate XLVIII

THE UK https://twitter.com/Albion_Rover/status/1348600356754903040 I said last week "The UK has lost its mind." They have moved to Madness Level 11 since then, proposing allowing people outside only once per week,…

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How’d We Do On Our 2020 Predicitons?

Dismally. Lousy. That's how we did on our 2020 predictions. Nobody saw the global insanity of the lockdowns, the Cult of the Mask, the covidiots, the scale of the election…

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Register Your Predictions for 2021!

As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. We did…

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FDA Releases Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safety Data: Should You Take It?

WHO'S IN CHARGE FDA report is here. Before discussing it, I want to emphasize that making this vaccine mandatory is evil, the work of tyrants. There is nothing in the…

Johnno on Masking Morality With Science: Men Pretending To Be Women In SportsNovember 17, 2025
What is to be done? Accelerate it! Let the transgenders march through all the women's institutions to outcompete and purge…
Johnno on In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s ArgumentNovember 17, 2025
Well Cary, the problem is that before you see God we are all very certain you are going to spend…
John Pate on Why Study Probability?November 17, 2025
Willis, I'm trying to get you to think differently, not be antagonistic... although my sister says I'm "on the spectrum"…
Uncle Mike on Masking Morality With Science: Men Pretending To Be Women In SportsNovember 17, 2025
How wonderful! As Dr. Briggs points out, clearly God, the Almighty Creator, created women different from men. However, stone cold,…
Cary D Cotterman on Masking Morality With Science: Men Pretending To Be Women In SportsNovember 17, 2025
Even with lowered testosterone, there's still height, weight, stride length, reach, muscle size, lung capacity, heart capacity, and the natural…