Everybody: thanks for the emails. I do see them. I’ll be answering all on the weekend. Would it surprise you to learn that to graduate with a degree in statistics—BS, MS, or […]
Lesson Two Again and Again: Logic is Not Opinion
Lesson Two Redux: More Mysticism
Is it written into sport announcers’ contract that they shall speak in nothing but cliché? Since there is always great confusion about why premises about “fairness” or “randomness” are not needed, we […]
Lesson 2: Evidence and the Mysticism of Randomness
We made rather merry at the Chapter House last night, an annual tradition. Class begins in two hours. I can still hear the vuvus. Sheesh. Statements about the unknown made with reference […]
Lesson 1: Limitations and Logic
The internet connectivity here at the Statler almost reaches the category of stinks. Responses will be even slower than usual in appearing. Act like an Freshman should and crack the spine of […]
World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing
USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through—a shot so […]
Castrate People To Prevent Global Warming Suffering?
For another take, be sure not to miss this. When I was much younger and vastly stupider, I made a snide remark to my father who was engaged in what I thought […]
Will Nature’s Lust Force A Change In Peer Review?
Nature is one sexy item. All the top scientists ogle it and want to possess it. It wears a slick, glossy cover, speaks only in seductive tones, and feels its company is […]
Castrations To Increase Due To Global Warming; Or, Reindeer Not Having A Ball
See if you have the smarts to follow this: global warming is going to cause “thick ice layers on top of [the] snow” in Norway, which will make “it harder for reindeer […]
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