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 […]
The Difference Between Essential And Empirical Models
I was having a back-and-forth with a colleague on modeling types (see this post for a modeling hierarchy) and falsifiability. It’s crucial we distinguish essential and empirical models, but first a word […]
A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability
Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in my office […]
Real Philosophy Is Science — Guest Post by Old David
Editor’s note: Old David, a.k.a. David Marwick from Australia, is familiar from the comment pages, and I thought it would be fun if he were on the receiving end of criticisms. He […]
When Philosophy Lost Its Way Discussion
So the official voice of godless materialism published a piece by Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle (who are plugging a new book, see below), “When Philosophy Lost Its Way” which is worth […]
Video: The Crisis Of Evidence, Or, Why Probability & Statistics Cannot Discover Cause
Thanks to Jeremy Snavely at DDP for putting up the talks. Here’s a direct link. Here’s the paper. Q & A starts around 52:30 minutes. Since some readers were curious, George Gilder […]
It’s World Statistics Day! Death To P-Values, Hypothesis Tests, And False Ascriptions Of Cause! #StatsDay15
Who said the UN doesn’t do anything useful? Courtesy of that august body, it’s World Statistics Day! Official statistics help decision makers develop informed policies that impact millions of people. Improved data […]
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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