Note carefully the picture which accompanies this post. The right-most glow is centered on the upper-middle-fifth amygdalic cingulatum region of your author’s brain. Statistics show that this region is “associated” with feelings […]
What I Will Do When I Win The Lottery
This will be my last blog post. At least, my last for some time. For I have bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket, whose face value is reportedly $540 million United States […]
Another Reason To Abandon P-values; Or Another Way To Cheat
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. […]
Heartlandgate Versus Climategate
There are some key differences between Climategate 1.0 and 2.0, where emails from scientists and their hangers on were leaked, and Heartlandgate (am I the first to use this appallingly over-used extension?). […]
Increasing Replication Of Un-Reproducibility In Science
Best science picture of the year, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal (and thanks to reader Dan Hughes): In just the last decade—ten mere years—the number of “peer-reviewed” journal articles nearly doubled, […]
How To Cheat, Or Fool Yourself, With Time Series: Climate Example
Update This post of such importance, that it remains on top today. See below for more comments. Presented for your satisfaction, a way to cheat either yourself or others using time series. […]
Spencer’s Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns
Politics In one of the most asinine, self-promoting, sniveling, absurd, nakedly political moves Wolfgang Wagner has resigned, with trumpets blazing, his editorship of Remote Sensing. Why? Because the journal under his command […]
Are You Good At Picking Football Games? Edgehogs
I haven’t met a die-hard sports fan yet who hasn’t claimed to be able to pick games better than everybody else. Just as I haven’t met a gambler who hasn’t told me […]
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