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What That Spurious Correlation Website Tells Us About Statistics

Many (thanks!) readers sent links to Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations, whose motto is "Discover a new correlation - an interesting spurious correlation each day!" My favorite is tying the yearly…

Culture

Conspiracy Theorists Abound

Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. Like clockwork. The disappearance of a…

Culture

Reddit Bans Dissent

I tried posting a thing or two at Reddit a while back (by invitation), but one of my i's wasn't dotted, or a t wasn't crossed, and the ankle biters…

Statistics

Sharknadoes To Increase Due To Global Warming

So the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is now 95 percent sure the climate has changed and some of the change is due to mankind. It should…

Statistics

Daily Links & Comments

@1 False widow spiders on the march! Under orders from global warming. Link @2 Washington Post's astonishing database of non-profit shenanigans. The big secret is millions go missing from NGOs:…

Culture Philosophy

The Closing Of The Scientific Mind

The title was swiped from Commentary Magazine's piece of the same name by David Gelernter, which all should read. Since today is a busy day at the Briggs Ranch, just…

Culture Philosophy

Their Science Or Ours

Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. To state the obvious: Briggs is…

Statistics

Scientific Forecasts, Not Scenarios, For Climate Policy—Guest Post by J. Scott Armstrong

The human race has prospered by relying on forecasts that the seasons will follow their usual course, while knowing they will sometimes be better or worse. Are things different now?…

C-Marie on Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3August 31, 2024
Sooo happy for you and your family!! God bless, C-Marie
NLR on Killing A Paradox: The Two EnvelopesAugust 31, 2024
Another thing is that there are two kinds of uncertainty in this problem. There's the uncertainty of how much money…
hudbwu on Quelling Violence In Terror States! The Return Of DickmanAugust 31, 2024
@JH: Marriage = sex, more or less. A case can be made H. sapiens evolved into exclusive lifelong monogamy, that…
Nate on Killing A Paradox: The Two EnvelopesAugust 31, 2024
Riggs, there's no contradiction in the 2nd item. The second problem simply is not the same problem the same as…
AG McNeil on Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3August 31, 2024
"Here is a depressing thread of 40-something women who believe they can still have kids." Why would that be depressing?…