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How Did We Do In Our 2023 Predictions? Lousy
As usual, we had many predictions for 2023, too many to list them all. As before, I’ll only highlight the best, or worst, or funniest forecast every entrant gave. For…
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Top Ten Articles of 2023
Today that most highly anticipated post of the year, the post where you learn what you, the reader, did to us. For it is you who are responsible for what…
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Making Up Data To Prove Models?
There is this idea in statistics called the "bootstrap." The idea is not crazy, but it's not quite right either. Works like this: data comes in, and usually some parameterized…
Posted inCulture
The Futile Assault Against Reality By The Undead Woke Army Ramps Up
Here is a picture of a California birth certificate. A birth certificate is bureaucratic paperwork the Regime uses, in this instance, to further its futile war against Reality. Many of…
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Merry Christmas, Dear Readers
A blessed joyous Merry Christmas to my dear readers, with a reminder to my enemies, especially those nasty indefatigable creatures responsible for inserting all those typos, that there is hope…
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A Christmas Carol Revisited — Guest Post by Richard Law
Richard Law is a retired web engineer and writer living in Switzerland. 'Tis the season for Charles Dickens' (1812-1870) deservedly popular tale of the time-travels of Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas…
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Women Are Fat Not Because Donuts But Because “Discrimination”, Wee P-values Confirm
An irreconcilable conflict sets itself up in the minds of academic Experts who deny that race exists while tracking every imaginable metric by race, which they say doesn't exist, and…
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Why Bayes Is Not The Fix We Need: A Critique of Bayesian Inference and its Application
I've pointed out many times some of the weaknesses of traditional statistical practices, and how the routine use of "hypothesis testing" leads to an ever-growing mountain of Broken Science. Some…
