Men are traditionally thought to have more problems in understanding women compared to understanding other men, though evidence supporting this assumption remains sparse. So opens the peer-reviewed paper “Why Don’t Men Understand […]
Scientists Suddenly Discover Men Don’t Understand Women
Applied Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VIII
Read Part VI. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VIII is Applied Ethics. Time to get dirty! Article 1: […]
Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part I
Definitions We first have to define what subjectivity and objectivity are and from these see what happens. For those unused to reading long stretches of prose, here is the conclusion, which will […]
Is This The Real William M. Briggs?
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Poor Statistics Undermine The Reliability Of Neuroscience
Note carefully the picture which accompanies this post. The right-most glow is centered on the upper-middle-fifth amygdalic cingulatum region of your author’s brain. Statistics show that this region is “associated” with feelings […]
General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII
Read Part VI. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VII is fun: General Ethics. That morality really exists and […]
Belief In God Associated With Psychiatric Symptoms
Medicalizing Belief Would you say that a guy who claims he believes in a “just” God suffers from “psychiatric symptoms”? What if we swap “just” for “critical.” Do we have a loon […]
Two Kinds Of Bad Statistics Caused By Publish & Perish
Two (main) kinds of bad statistics: (1) where they are used to claim what is not true, and (2) where they are used to claim what is true. The second might not […]
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