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Health Is Not A Goal
Regular readers will know these words from Mark Twain by heart: even so, they bear repeating: There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and…
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Celeste Greig Fired Over Rape Comments
A hoard of angry abortion supporters---one wonders if there are other kinds---succeeded in removing Celeste Greig from her post as president of the state's Republican Assembly. Greig's thought crime? In…
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Over-Optimism In Physician Prognoses
Poor Michael Boren lay dead at one of the ugliest places in New York City, the on-ramp to the Queensboro Bridge. Heart attack. He was only 51. He made it…
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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part II
Read Part I. What is the probability that "The Detroit Tigers win today's game" (which has not yet been played)? The truth of the proposition (in quotes) is not known…
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Mexican Hat Fallacy
Reader Kip Hansen asks, "Can you please run a brief explanation of what the Mexican Hat fallacy is statistically?" I can. The Mexican Hat Fallacy, or Falacia Sombrero, is when…
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Woman To Marry Fairground Ride. A New Sexual ‘Orientation’?
I want you to tell me exactly why Amy Wolfe, a 33-year-old "US church organist", can't marry her favorite roller coaster. You heard me. Roller coaster---an "80ft gondola ride." Exactly,…
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More On Flying
SFO to JFK. A Russian couple, both double-plus sized, the man at the aisle the woman the window. Me in the middle. I offered many times to let them sit…
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Manhattan Methane Mystery: Or, A Curious Way To Argue For Green Energy
Today's guest post is in the form of an extended email by Gerald E. Quindry, Ph.D., P.E. who noticed something peculiar about some official findings on methane measurements. Dr Briggs,…