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Space’s 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science

Reader Ken pointed us to Space.com's click-me-click-me! article "The 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science". Since everybody loves numbered lists, I'll duplicate their efforts here, using their mistakes. Isn't…

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Masters Statistics & (Some) Predictions

Here's a view of the winning scores from par since the inception of the tournament. The early years saw little variability, but since the 60s there were a lot more…

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P-Value Hacking Is Finally Being Noticed

Since I'm on the road, all typos today are free of charge. Some reasonably good news to report. A peer-reviewed paper: "The fickle P value generates irreproducible results" by Lewis…

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What Evidence Would Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?

Somebody named Ronald Bailey (he isn't anybody I know) at the inaptly named Reason asked the good question which heads this post. Second thought: the question is awful. No scientist…

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Global Warming Hypocrisy: Or, Science Is Politics

Lefties take money, too In an interview with far-left New York Times, activist and part-time scientist Michael Oppenheimer says "nothing follows" from his taking moola from the EDF (Environmental Defense…

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Bill Nye The Science Guy Confuses Scientific Uncertainty Versus Doubt

On the road, so something quick. Reader Paul Mullen writes: Briggs, A fellow at the salt mine was thoughtful enough to leave a copy in the break room of April's…

Philosophy Statistics

Probability’s Empirical Bias

Bit of logic (a favorite example) from our teacher Lewis Carroll: given "All cats understand French and that some chickens are cats", what can we say about the proposition "Some…

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Global Warming Is Anti-Science

It is not anti-science to say that humans influence the climate, because, of course, humans, and every other species on the planet, influences the climate. At the least, humans move…

Rudolph Harrier on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
History of computer science should be mandatory learning. EVERY single advancement in computer science has been accompanied by hype that…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
is AI simply plagiarism writ large with supercomputing power linking phrases statistically? machines cannot think.
JH on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
The limitations of AI are due to the limitations of human beings. For example, we don't understand what intelligence is.…
John Pate on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
AI is fake and gay jew pump and dump tech bubble, business as usual. AI stands for "Actually Indians" as…
hudbwu on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
>Godel makes his grand entrance in the Real Intelligence? essay, in which the surprise answer will be, No. Ooh! Can't…