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Interest In Penile Length Among Academics Growing
Who said Finns don't have a sense of humor? One of Finland's very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and…
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Picking X’s In Regression. The Role Of Relevance. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 9
Be sure to first read Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends then Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples, as this post…
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Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 8
Be sure to first read Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends, as this post is an extension of it. As yesterday: If y is some…
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Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?
Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last…
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Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to…
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India Aborting Girls At Full Speed: Sex Selection And Demographics
Science is great. It---"it" is always an it, an invisible entity, a guiding sapience, an intelligence that can be looked to for guidance---can now us tell the sex of a…
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Government outlays: The Canadian Experience — Guest Post by David Ipperciel
In the post "Taxing the Rich Always Fails Eventually," Briggs states that, "It is rational to believe that these years [of decreasing deficits] will continue to be infrequent." I believe…
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Predict The Next Strangest Government Regulation
Perhaps the most fantastical regulation to launch recently from the collective hive-mind of the federal bureaucracy is the one which administrates the very breath of life. Yes, the Environmental Protection…