Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, …I’d still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the word probability. […]
What Are P-Values?
The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody started from […]
Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them
Today’s post is at The Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them. Global warming will, of course, doom us all. That is, if the models created by […]
Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)
Today’s post is at Crisis. The title the editor John Vella wrote is AUs—parsecs, even—above mine. His: “Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm“. Mine? “The Church Burns To Jump Into Global Warming”. […]
Gettier Problems & Epistemic Luck Are Distractions And No Problem
Regular readers will recall I do not think so-called Gettier problems have any force in epistemology. The “problems” only crop up because people make two mistakes: forgetting the difference between ontology and […]
The Theology of Water—Is Design Intelligent? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Physicist Bob Kurland gives us a twist on the anthropic principle. “The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into eternal life. […]
Falsifiability Is Not That Useful
False is not True We spoke earlier of falsification and why I didn’t think it was an especially useful criterion. My tweets about it inspired Deborah Mayo, who advocates for the new […]
Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause
Correlation I was at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Ontario (LA) California and gave my paper The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause, which we also […]
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