Read Part I, Part Paradox, Part II Recapitulation: we have Pr(p|qm) where p is a proposition of interest, q the evidence we have compiled in the form of observations and so forth, […]
Preface: The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics, An Introduction
%This is the Preface of The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics, An Introduction coming before Preface and before the chapters on Truth and Logic. Note the New & Improved title! Since this […]
What Statistics Really Is: Part II
Read Part I, Part Paradox I claimed, and it is true, that all statistical problems could be written , where p is a proposition of interest and q is our evidence, or […]
Philosophic Issues in Cosmology V: What Measurements Tell Us—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic faith. Read […]
Frequentists Are Closet Bayesians: Confidence Interval Edition
Actually, all frequentists and Bayesians are logical probabilists, but if I put that in the title, few would believe it. A man might call himself an Anti-Gravitational Theorist, a science which describes […]
It’s Time To Lynch Those Who Deny Climate Skepticism
Let us agree with the enlightened that the world is imperfect and ought not to be. The cause of imperfection is human error which ought to be eradicated with extreme prejudice. One […]
Science? What’s That?
Definition Science is the measurement of quantifiable things. That which is not measurable is not science. Causality and morality and consciousness and so on are not measurable and therefore are not scientific. […]
The Alternative To P-Values
I apologize for the abruptness of the notation. It will be understandable only to a few. I don’t like to use it without sufficient background because the risk of reification is enormous […]
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