That title is lifted from Popular Science’s brief article. The idea is that scientists—as philosopher Christopher Essex reminded me, just like doctors and accountants and businessmen and engineers and everybody else who […]
Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?
On Global Warming Apoplexy: Temperature Trends
It is a sure sign that Sanity has packed her bags and headed for the door when otherwise sober scientists begin slinging around terms like “denier” and “denialist.” Language like this displays […]
How To Maximize The Chance Of Winning The Office Super Bowl Pool
Forget climatology. It’s time for something really controversial. How to fill in those grid squares on the Super Bowl office pool. An example of one is shown below. The full details are […]
Bad Astronomer Does Bad Statistics: That Wall Street Journal Editorial
Remember when I said how you shouldn’t draw straight lines in time series and then speak of the line as if the line was the data itself? About how the starting point […]
All Of Statistics: Part III
(B) New data It might surprise you, but in classical (both frequentist and Bayesian) practice, if we expect to see new X, the procedure is almost always no different than the procedure […]
All Of Statistics: Part II
(A) No new data (cont.) If we want to know how that data arose, and we are not satisfied by X itself, we need to propose a model—a fully causal to fully […]
All Of Statistics: Part I
Statistics is the collection and modeling of data. By “modeling” I mean using probability to describe our uncertainty in values that data may take. Statistics, then, is applied probability. Probability is the […]
To Be, Or Not To Be…Free: Sam Harris & Jerry Coyne On Free Will — Guest Post by Mariano Grinbank
Mariano Grinbank is a Judeo-Christian apologist who knows when to say he’s not sorry. See this video). Lack of free will is a trope that is growing in importance in scientific circles. […]
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