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Low IQ & Liberal Beliefs Linked To Poor Research?

Watch out Sam Harris, Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri of Brock University are giving you competition for the worst use of statistics in an original paper. Their "Bright Minds…

Philosophy

Hayek Versus Keynes

The video "Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two" (via Econstories.tv) allows us to discern one reason why reporters side with the forces of large government. Hayek's corner…

Fun Statistics

World Cup Statistics and Predictions for the Final

A prediction (made on Monday, 28 June) verified: Although---and this has nothing to do with the issue at hand---Argentina's goaltender Sergio Romero stinks, and that's putting it nicely. Every shot…

Fun Statistics

World Cup Predictions Verified

All that was missing was the water for the players to plunge into. Still, referee Howard Webb must be a fan of the aquatic and artistic sport of diving, and…

Statistics

Newcomb’s Paradox And Probability

This article was suggested by reader JH who saw it discussed at Massimo Pigliucci's site. When he was at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, William Newcomb devised the following puzzle, which…

Culture Fun Statistics

Hats Are Back! Staring At Women’s Breasts Lowers Math Scores!

Fedoras For Fellas While watching an exquisite interpretation of the classic hose-in-the-face by one Curley "Babe" Howard on television, I inadvertently saw a commercial for the movie The Adjustment Bureau…

Culture

The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II

STUDY DESIGN As I mentioned last time, it is crucial to design a test that eliminates all possibility and suspicion of cheating. If the KIBS kids were going to demonstrate…

Fun

I am a child of the ’70s

I was in my files looking for a paper on proper scoring rules when this photo popped out of an envelope: This is, I think, 1977, when I was 13.…

Johnno on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
It is said that the Boghossian Philosophers favorite flavor of ice cream was a particular locally sourced chocolate. I take…
Hagfish Bagpipe on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Briggs: "...some complained of having to learn philosophy..." Theology too.
Paul Murphy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Maybe cannibals like their food marine-ated?
cdquarles on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 19, 2024
One definition of faith is "Certain knowledge of something you can't know any other way", such as mathematical axioms. Faith…
Cary D Cotterman on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
I live and breathe as proof that ugly does not equal woke.