Week or two back the world was shocked to learn that white doctors were killing BLACK! babies. Not the ones that haven’t escaped their mothers’ wombs: that’s old, and even welcome, news. […]
The Danish Mask Study Shows Masks Aren’t Worth It
HUFFIN’, PUFFIN’ & BLUFFIN’ The blustery squid-stained panicked hersteric Nassim Nicholas Taleb—the man who called those who dared not run around screeching like teenage girls as he did at the start of […]
Over-Certainty of Polygenic Scores
This is really a Part I of a series of articles about the latest trend (fad?) in statistical biology, but I didn’t want to label it that way, which would discourage some […]
Probability Thought Experiment With NNT: Reader Question
From reader Ernst, this interesting probability/statistics question. First, NNT = number needed to treat, which is, stealing from this site to save time, “The Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is the number […]
The Sorrow And The Pity Of P-values
Thanks to the Wrath of Gnon, we have this report: Sorry, wrong number: Statistical benchmark comes under fire, from Phys.org. Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge […]
On That Fluoride-IQ Study & Statistical Silliness
I am in the Northwoods at the water’s edge, far from the teeming masses, and I only had time to glance through this new study that claims that women who eat fluoride […]
That Cofnas Paper On Research On Group Differences In Intelligence
Find by general acclaim the smartest man in the world. Call this man “Group A”. Call everybody else “Group B”. There will necessarily be a group difference in mean intelligence, and even […]
AI Is Kicking Statistics’s Ass
Here’s the headline: “AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy: This isn’t the first time experts have harnessed AI’s predictive power for healthcare.” Unsettling accuracy? Is accuracy unsettling? Has […]
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