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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Randomness And Mysticism. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 2
Last night was spent at the storied Chapter House, for our annual first-night ceremony of Deliberate Numbness Induction, much needed after eight straight hours of unmitigated statistical theory. The only…
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The Nature Of Probability And Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 1
Ithaca was once voted the "Most Enlightened City." I can't say whether this is true, but I can tell you that the Cornell's Statler hotel's refrigerator contain a placard, which…
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Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0
Two Weeks Beginning tomorrow, and lasting a semisolid two weeks, will be my class at Cornell. A Masters "How To" in statistics, directed towards MBA-like personages. An impossible task. No…
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Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?
Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last…
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Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities
Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…
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Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update
Concentration Camps To Re-educate Deniers Next? It's time to make public examples of those that disagree with reporter, and non-science-educated Richard Glover's view of climate change. He would have skeptics…
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Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime
All p-values are not created equal, nor equally. Use one inappropriately, and you can land in jail. Just like Scott "Baron" (I'm guessing) Harkonen, former CEO of InterMune, a company…