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Insanity & Doom Update XXXVIII
Item California becomes first state to pass water law limiting toilet flushes, showers California has become the first state in the nation to pass a controversial new law that places…
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Speaking to Sweeney — Guest Post by Kevin Groenhagen
Earlier this year, Newsweek magazine reported that President Donald Trump speaks at the fourth-grade level. According to the article, "The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in…
Posted inStatistics
The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Premature Birth Rate Edition
Hypothesis testing leads to more scientific nonsense than any other practice, including fraud. Hypothesis testing, as regular readers know, cannot identify cause. It conflates decision with probability and leads to…
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A Mild & Temporary Victory Over Gmarriage
Well I'll be dogged. The Supreme Court, led by (in)Justice Kennedy himself, said you don't, at least sometimes, have to bake that cake. Here is the ruling (first printing). Given…
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Lovely Example of Statistics Gone Bad
The graph above (biggified version here) was touted by Simon Kuestenmacher (who posts many beautiful maps). He said "This plot shows the objects that were found to be 'the most…
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Why Younger Evangelicals Waver in Support for Israel
Update It appears some think I believe unquestioning support of Israel is a good thing, or that I agree with evangelical interpretations of prophecy. If so, I wrote badly. This…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Happiness Does Not Come In Honor Or Glory
Previous post. Strange are the things men seek out. That Human Felicity Does Not Consist In Honor 1 It is also clear from the foregoing that the highest good for…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXVII
Item A surprising number of straight people are having same-sex experiences, study reveals This is the official finding of a recently-published study, which analysed survey data from more than 24,000…
