Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII Quick review: people’s heads were stuck in an fMRI; inside, they read questions to which they answered […]
Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part VI
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII The description on the use of the fMRI (how it works, voltages, etc.) appears, to my untutored […]
Only 2 days left! Predictions For 2012: Submit Yours Today!
Update Predictions are closed for this year. Come back New Year’s Eve to see how we’ve done. We’ll change the rules slightly this year and ask that everybody now predict the winner […]
What A Prediction Is And What It Is Not: Part III
This inescapable fact, that the conditioning evidence is only assumed and is therefore subjectively defined, is responsible for much acrimony about accuracy. Thus the reason we attempt to eliminate wiggle room and […]
Curtis’s The Science Of Subjectivity
An unfocused post today; just some notes on a paper. Busy day for me. Andrew Curtis wrote, “The science of subjectivity” in the January 2012 issue of the journal Geology (sent to […]
Differences In Brains Between Believers And Atheists?
The following question was posed at the (inaptly named) magazine Scientific American, “Is there a difference between the brain of an atheist and the brain of a religious person?” It was asked […]
All Of Statistics: Part I
Statistics is the collection and modeling of data. By “modeling” I mean using probability to describe our uncertainty in values that data may take. Statistics, then, is applied probability. Probability is the […]
Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part II
Part I, II, III, IV, V. Before us are the observations X1 to X156. Recall we are assuming that each of these X has been measured without any error. Given that we […]
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