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Proof Education Is Bad For You
Headline The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America First-time mothers are older in big cities and on the coasts, and younger in rural areas and in…
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Amazon’s AI Proves Men Better Than Women At Tech Jobs
Item Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women (Thanks to Mark Charters for the tip.) Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new…
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On Witch Hunts
Help me, here. We need a new term. Witch hunt has an entirely negative connotation, and this should not be. Genuine witches should be hunted, as doubtless all agree. Witches,…
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Road Rage: Paper Says Living Near Road Causes Dementia
Dust is thrilling researchers these days. Dust, or the more scientific sounding PM2.5, is the next greatest struggle after global warming. We've already seen attempts to prove dust, as measured…
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Proof Cause Is In The Mind And Not In The Data
Pick something that happened. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as it happened. Something caused this thing to happen; which is to say, something actual turned the potential (of…
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside, It’s Gaia 2.0!
James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, via Wikipedia, is that "living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part IX Stan — Logistic & Beta Regression
Review! We're doing logistic and beta regression this time. These aren't far apart, because the observable for both lives between 0 and 1; for logistic it is 0 or 1;…
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Poor Richard Carrier Goes On The Offensive
Six years ago I wrote a small, daily piece (Bayes Theorem Proves Jesus Existed And Didn't Exist) about the use of probability in proving or disproving the existence of God.…