Men ordinarily don’t like writing about women’s breasts, but I had so many emails asking me why Angelina Jolie decided to part with hers that I felt we had better take a look. Where better to start than with her … Continue reading
We often have a series of exchanges with friends or others, seeking to convince them of some proposition which we believe is true, and which may even be true. But these friends think the proposition false, and which may even … Continue reading
Following Part II, here are some examples to show the differences between objectivist, subjectivist, and frequentist probabilities derived from fixed premises and set conclusions. Example 1 Not all probability is objectively strictly quantifiable. Premise: “Some X are F and x … Continue reading
The Department of Education, like the IRS, is a beneficent and benevolent bureaucracy which only has our best interests at heart and which is in no way political, has decided that all colleges shall hew to a new “blueprint for … Continue reading