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Stream: Why Science Is Broken & How To Fix It
Today's post is at The Stream: Why Science Is Broken, and How To Fix It: It comes down to bad politics, bad money, and bad philosophy. Here are snippets. Plus:…
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New & Improved Way To Support Your Favorite Blog!
Uncontrolled gleeful trembling is the most common symptom upon learning the Big News that there is a New & Improved! way to support the blog! You know this method must…
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Coincidences Don’t Have Odds, Chances, Or Probabilities
PODCAST BONUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nX43bgWUn8 The Podcast has been restored! Sorry for the mix up yesterday. Here's the story cut short. A woman was browsing a used book stall and came across…
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The Ethics Of Precrime
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits…
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American Statistical Association Statement On Statistical Significance & P-values, With My Comments
Editorial Note: I had this originally scheduled to go Monday, but due to Stream's Creatorgate piece showing up yesterday, I delayed this by a day. I think I only have…
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On Coincidence And Fortune: Why So Many One-Eyed Generals?
Plutarch opens his Life of Sertorius with these two sentences: It is perhaps not a matter of surprise, if in the lapse of time, which is unlimited, while fortune is…
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Science Confirms Astrology! Plus, Machine Learning, Big Data, And Causes
Health signs The alternate title to today's post, suggested by reader Kip Hansen, is "Data scientists find connections between birth month and health". Don't scoff. We're talking peer review and…
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Gravitational Waves And Discovering Cause
You'll have heard by now that the existence of gravitational waves have been "confirmed." The scare quotes are intentional, but not in the sense that I (necessarily) disbelieve in the…