If you’re a scientist, soft or hard, who routinely uses statistics, it’s likely that your funding, and therefore your career, the very wellness of your being hinges on discovering statistically significant results. […]
Another Reason To Abandon P-values; Or Another Way To Cheat
Supreme Court To Rule On Obamacare
The Supreme Court is taking on Obamacare. There are many questions to be decided, but the largest is the so-called individual mandate. Some have suggested that the mandate is equivalent to states […]
Contingency, Causality, Determinism, And Free Will
In thinking about what probability means, it’s important to sort out what is contingent and what relationship contingent events have to causality. Contingency simply means that what is could have been something […]
Priceless Now Means Of No Value
It used to be, when the world was not much younger, priceless meant of incalculable value or beyond price; of things removed from the monetary realm, of things intemporal. Priceless objects were […]
Nothing Is More Important Than College Football
Thank God Penn State was able to play Saturday! Your author was in desperate need of free entertainment and there is nothing quite so satisfying as watching twenty-year-old student-as-customer athletes, in the […]
Bad News For Conservatives? Or Bad News For Rational Thought?
Let’s examine Marcus Arvan’s peer-reviewed paper, “Bad News for Conservatives? Moral Judgments and the Dark Triad Personality Traits: A Correlational Study”, published in the 25 July 2011 issue of Neuroethics. Through the […]
Global Warming, Asinine Science Roundup
Still in Taipei and a bit swamped. Here are some links that will be of interest; mostly provided by Willie Soon, Marc Morano, and readers just like you! Trenberth’s Null Hypothesis. Trenberth […]
A Sermon You Won’t Forget: The Exorcist at 40
The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition by William Peter Blatty If you’re only familiar with the (original, 1973 version of the) movie, it might surprise you that The Exorcist is not a […]
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