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Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men?
There are no such thing as the "odds" a panel would be "randomly" all men. Yet The Atlantic thinks there could be, and so does a fellow named Greg Martin,…
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Hubris & Models: Global Warming Economic Production Edition
COP21 in Paris is fast approaching and the #BigPush is on. That means we're forced to talk about global warming more than I'd like (which is not at all). But…
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It’s World Statistics Day! Death To P-Values, Hypothesis Tests, And False Ascriptions Of Cause! #StatsDay15
Who said the UN doesn't do anything useful? Courtesy of that august body, it's World Statistics Day! Official statistics help decision makers develop informed policies that impact millions of people.…
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Open Thread: Effect Of Pope’s Visit?
Now the real excuse for this post is that yesterday, it being a sort of holiday, I made rather merry and neglected to cause a post to be written. Since…
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The Philosophy Of Uncertainty: An Introduction. Complete Preface. Update
Le livre, he is done! I yesterday sent a proposal to a philosophy editor at Cambridge. Not enough equations or pictures in it to pique the interest of the statistics…
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It Is Irrational to Believe in Science
This article only begins the subject; it does not end it. Atheists, beware the So’s-Your-Old-Man Fallacy. Belief in the absence of evidence is irrational. There is no evidence for believing…
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What Causes Democracies To Incline Towards Pantheism
Wrapping up class. I'll be on the Bill Meyer Show today at 11:10 AM ET. He's a Medford, man. Medford, Oregon. (Let he who readeth understand.) This will keep up…
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Build Your Own Embryo DNA Kits, Because Justice
A curious statement in Guy Ringler's "Get Ready for Embryos From Two Men or Two Women": ...There likely will be a time when reproductive science could create an embryo from…
