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The Tolerance Paradox
First, our official definition of a paradox: A puzzle concocted with premises we know are false but which lead to a conclusion we wish were true. Thus, because the conclusion…
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Causality: Guest Post by DAV
Today's guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web's blogs it's not uncommon to…
Posted inStatistics
Can Catching A Cold Make You Fat?
Jeff Schwimmer and his University of California-San Diego colleagues seem to think so. In a press-release that is being cut-and-pasted across across the internet, Schwimmer tells of a study he…
Posted inCulture
Robert Messenger’s Weekly Standard “Theirs But To Do Or Die”
Drop everything and head over to the Weekly Standard and read Robert Messenger's "Theirs But To Do Or Die." The subtitle of his piece is "Dien Bien Phu and the…
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“Climate Calamity” Rejected In Favor Of “Climate Disruption”
President Obama's White House has been hard at work trying to discover another term for global warming. The old phrase was deemed staid and passé, so much so that its…
Posted inFun Statistics
Spot The Logical Fallacy!
See the first installment of our favorite game. As is frequent in the evolution of games shows, the set of rules has been simplified. It’s time to play everybody’s favorite…
Horrible College Fashion: Both Professors And Students
I told the kid about to take exam that if he could write an essay successfully justifying why he chose to wear his unusual hat and kept it on indoors,…
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Too Many Kids Go To College: A Second Conversation With Myself
Read the first conversation here. William How goes the teaching? Matt Do you really want to know? You might not like the answer. William You're going to start this conversation…
