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Why Younger Evangelicals Waver in Support for Israel

Update It appears some think I believe unquestioning support of Israel is a good thing, or that I agree with evangelical interpretations of prophecy. If so, I wrote badly. This…

Other Practical Books On Par With <em>Uncertainty</em>? Reader Question

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Other Practical Books On Par With Uncertainty? Reader Question

Got this email from VD. I've edited to remove any personal information and to add blog-standard style and links. I answered, and I remind all readers of the on-going claassre,…

Statistics

Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing

Nothing can cure significance testing. Except a bullet to the p-value. (That sound you heard was from readers pretending to swoon.) The paper is out and official---and free!: "Manipulating the…

Class Statistics

Choose Predictive Over Parametric Every Time

Gaze and wonder at picture which heads this article, which I lifted from John Haman's nifty R package ciTools. The numbers in the plot are made up whole cloth to…

Inference To The Best Explanation: Shapiro’s <em>The Miracle Myth</em> Reviewed — Part II

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Inference To The Best Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part II

Read Part I. A researcher puts you into a room. On the table is a blue ball. Somebody put it there. It could have been Alice, Bob, or Charlie. Given…

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People Are Less Religious When Government Is Bigger

This is making the news. A guy we've seen before is up to his usual statistical shenanigans in the peer-reviewed paper "Religion as an Exchange System: The Interchangeability of God…

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Uncertainty Book Report

Springer sent me the book report Uncertainty for 2017. Since its online publication on July 01, 2016, there has been a total of 16,765 chapter downloads for your eBook on…

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Atheists Released From Global Warming Fight Duties. Jim Antal Says So.

We are sick unto death of the endless failed predictions of global warming doom. Not climate change doom. Global warming doom. They promised global warming. Never let them forget that.…

Johnno on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The hersteric is worried about the gains-of-function-science where the more science they can inject into your life, the more money…
Pk on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The utilitarianism was too evident yesterday in Trump’s presser with the three AI billionaires announcing some new adventure. They claimed…
Cary Cotterman on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
"threatening to erase the gains of science" When the "gains of science" include climate hysteria, trans cultism, vaccine coercion, and…
Paul Murphy on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
Agreed - my own experience is that you can't (or, at least, people I knew while working in hospital IT…
Chaeremon on Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 MinutesJanuary 22, 2025
I do not [just] like synopsis in contours, no no, I love it :-)