Homework #1
I was reminded of this homework problem that I give my students as I was riding in on the F train this morning. It is a very good problem because…
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CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
Here is the link to the symposium which I mentioned a few weeks back. It is being sponsored by the Ram?n Areces Foundation and the Royal Academy of Sciences of…
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Maybe your parents were right
They dropped the charges against that poor eighth-grade kid who was caught with a dollar bag of Skittles somewhere up in Connecticut. I'm not so sure that this is a…
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Another reason to leave academia
1. Repeat after me: "There are no innate biological differences between men and women...except, well, women are of course better nurturers, sympathizers, empathizers, and a score of other things." 2.…
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It depends what the meaning of mean means.
Yesterday's post was entitled, "You cannot measure a mean", which is both true and false depending---thanks to Bill Clinton for the never-ending stream of satire---on what the meaning of mean…
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Harmonica Convergence: classic column
In 1987 in Sedona, Arizona, the end of the world occurred in an event called the "Second Harmonic Convergence". It was publicized all over the world. Many enlightened people came.…
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You cannot measure a mean
I often say---it is even the main theme of this blog---that people are too certain. This is especially true when people report results from classical statistics, or use classical methods…
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Afternoon at GISS
Tim Hall at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies invited me to give a seminar on statistical hurricane modeling. A link to my presentation is below. Tim, with Stephen Jewson,…
