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Teaching Journal: Day 1
Truth exists. Therefore, so does falsity. That truth exists is one of the many things we know to be true based on no external evidence. Naturally there are a very…
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Teaching Journal: Day 0
This begins my two week tarriance at Cornell, teaching ILR-ST somenumberorother, a course in the Masters of Professional Studies, which is not unlike, though not entirely the same as, an…
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What Do You Think Of The New Look? (Back To Old: Temporarily)
Everybody gets to vote. Though, like in any socialist paradise, there is only one candidate. This one. This new design, I mean. The old one was growing stale, it was…
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Personality Predicted By Pedal Extremity Wrappings?
Fats Waller knew which end was up. The mark of mate-ability, he infallibly sang, was to be had by looking down. Shakespeare agreed: he wrote, "Farewell Love and all thy…
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Drug Companies Tweaking Results To Produce Publishable P-values?
A person who Nature is calling a "whistle blower" has written a brief confessional in the British Medical Journal admitting to what might be termed statistical fiddling at a "major"…
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2012 UEFA European Football Championship And What Probability Is
A pair of statisticians have calculated that, as of 10 June, the probability that Germany takes the 2012 Euro Cup is 26.8%. Russia, they say, comes in with the next…
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In Praise Of Narrow Minds
SourceJonah Goldberg, in his The Tyranny of Clichés relates how Andrew Sullivan quoted approvingly a story from an old book whose moral was that one should not believe morals of…
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“Say, That’s A Nice Hat”; Or, I Get Touched
I should have known better. Me. Mr Street Smarts. A man who has actually vacationed in Detroit. On purpose. A guy who has walked all over New York City, trudged…
