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Fleet Week San Francisco
This is the week the fleet meets under the Golden Gate. An astonishing site. I'm in SF and saw the air show practice the past two days. The Blue Angels…
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Why Yom Kippur Is Sacred To This Priest — Guest Post by Father Brian Jordan
Father Brian Jordan is a Roman Catholic priest, a Franciscan formerly of St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City, where everybody, just everybody, knows him. He does most…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Robert Heinlein And Evolving Probabilities
Writer Stephen Dawson, a long-time participant at this blog, wrote and asked the following: In his The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein had his intelligent computer calculate the…
Posted inStatistics
The Implications Of Yesterday’s Global Warming Post
There was nothing in the world wrong with my scientific paper "Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper." Nothing, that is, that isn't wrong with any paper which seeks,…
Posted inStatistics
Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper
A scientific paper in a grand tradition (notice the scientific formatting and use of p-values): the custom is to read only the Abstract; only the brave and bored should venture…
Posted inCulture Philosophy Statistics
Are Humans As Violent As In The Good Old Days?
If we had records of massacres as we have meteorological records, don't you think we might discover their internal laws, after several centuries of observation? --- Joseph de Maistre. There…
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America’s Security and Taiwan’s Freedom — Guest Post by June Teufel Dreyer
We return to a topic which is of more importance than you want it to be: the possibility of Chinese belligerence. June Teufel Dreyer is a political science professor at…
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New Paper Shows Statistical Errors At 50% to 100% In Peer-Reviewed Neuroscience Journals
The error is often reported like this: "The percentage of neurons showing cue-related activity increased with training in mutant mice (P < 0.05), but not in control mice (P >…
