Go ahead and ask me. I’ll even pretend to laugh. Just as I chuckle warmly with you when you quote Mark Twain (or Disraeli) abut damned lies. (Secretly, I’ll be looking for […]
Frequentists Are Closet Bayesians: Confidence Interval Edition
Actually, all frequentists and Bayesians are logical probabilists, but if I put that in the title, few would believe it. A man might call himself an Anti-Gravitational Theorist, a science which describes […]
What That Spurious Correlation Website Tells Us About Statistics
Many (thanks!) readers sent links to Tyler Vigen’s Spurious Correlations, whose motto is “Discover a new correlation – an interesting spurious correlation each day!” My favorite is tying the yearly number of […]
The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
Quantum Mechanics & Free Will: Guest Post by Bob Kurland
This post originally appeared in longer form at Bob’s place. There’s a lot of meat here; I recommend biting it off in small chunks. “Of course I believe in free will. I […]
Never Say “Caused By Chance”
One of the services of this blog is grammatical guidance. In that spirit, here are phrases which should be forbidden, and will be once I am in charge (all highlights mine): “If […]
Scientists Claim Homosexual Men Have Different Faces
In the journal that brought you “Is a Woman’s Preference for Chest Hair in Men Influenced by Parasite Threat?”1, “Accurate Identification of a Preference for Insertive Versus Receptive Intercourse from Static Facial […]
Was The UEFA Champions League Draw Rigged?—Bayesian Analysis by Henk Tijms
Henk Tijms, emeritus professor at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, is author of Understanding Probability (excerpt; Amazon at this writing has it for only $31.29, a steal for textbooks). Football (“soccer”) is […]
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