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Confirmation Bias Happens To The Other Guy
Yet another entry in a long and endless series of experiments which show people often see what they want. Twist in this new one is that people who aren't too…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II
Update 4 Too late. 10 October 2013. Update 4 Moved this to top because the bill allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is on Gov. Brown's desk. He'll likely sign, but…
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Selling Fear Is A Risky Business: Part Last
Read Part I, Part II. Don't be lazy. This is difficult but extremely important stuff. Let's add in a layer of uncertainty and see what happens. But first hike up…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
More On True Models And Predictive Inference
Not all models are false. So much we have discussed before. To say a model is false is to show that one of the premises which comprise the model is…
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Objective Bayes Vs. Logical Probability (Vs. Frequentism)
Reader and colleague JH has rightly taken me to task (via email) for incorrectly calling, or rather misleadingly labeling, logical probability "objective Bayes." She pointed to this set of lecture…
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Coal-Fired Power Plants Fuel Suicide—Or Maybe Sanguinity
Smokestack Seppuku Whatever you do, don't look at that smokestack! Do, and next thing you know you'll be drawing a knife across your throat. Suicide! Or so says the press…
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Belief In God Associated With Psychiatric Symptoms
Medicalizing Belief Would you say that a guy who claims he believes in a "just" God suffers from "psychiatric symptoms"? What if we swap "just" for "critical." Do we have…
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Physical Anthropology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part V
Read Part IV. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question V is Physical Anthropology. The most contentious question…