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 […]
On That Fluoride-IQ Study & Statistical Silliness
Choose Predictive Over Parametric Every Time
Gaze and wonder at picture which heads this article, which I lifted from John Haman’s nifty R package ciTools. The numbers in the plot are made up whole cloth to demonstrate the […]
Other Practical Books On Par With Uncertainty? Reader Question
Got this email from VD. I’ve edited to remove any personal information and to add blog-standard style and links. I answered, and I remind all readers of the on-going claassre, but I […]
The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody started from […]
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 […]
Lovely Example of Statistics Gone Bad
The graph above (biggified version here) was touted by Simon Kuestenmacher (who posts many beautiful maps). He said “This plot shows the objects that were found to be ‘the most distant object’ […]
Randomization Isn’t Needed — And Can Be Harmful
Had a named person in statistics (Andrew Althouse) ask me about randomization, which he likes, and which I do not. “I want to compare outcomes for a specific patient group getting surgery […]
Equality Is False — In Aptitude, Intelligence, Ability. What Are The Consequences?
Listen to this: Brothers and sisters: There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but […]
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