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Homogenization of temperature series: Part III
Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V We still have work to do. This is not simple stuff, and if we try and…
Posted inPhilosophy
Homogenization of temperature series: Part II
Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Aside: counterfactuals A counterfactual is statement saying what would be the case if its conditional were…
Posted inCulture
I don’t want to eat protein
I suppose it was inevitable. People have been watching their 'carbs' for years, or 'carbo loading' before running a race. When I was a kid, only chemists knew what a…
Posted inStatistics
A Response to What is—and what isn’t—evidence of global warming.
Reader Marvin was kind enough to pass on Wednesday's Pajama's Media article What is---and what isn't---evidence of global warming to a "highly educated" person (those are not scare quotes, but…
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The CRU “climategate” proxy code: a primer
I'm just getting into the CRU code: it's a lot of material and everything I say here about it is preliminary. Some of you will know what I'm going to…
The declining popularity of the World Series
Media firm Magna research today published its estimates of the audiences for the World Series from 1991. They broke the data down by audience per game in each series (of…
Posted inStatistics
The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story
"J'accuse! A statistician may prove anything with his nefarious methods. He may even say a negative number is positive! You cannot trust anything he says." Sigh. Unfortunately, this oft-hurled charge…
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Windows 7? Why not Linux, instead?
My logs show that only a paltry 3.6% of readers have reached Complete Enlightenment. The bad news is that 83.1% of you live a hellish existence and suffer regular torments…
