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Did A Man Really Breastfeed A Baby?
Stream: Did A Man Really Breastfeed A Baby? Something's not right. A paper in the journal Transgender Health reports that a man injected with a myriad of chemicals was able…
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Science Says It’s Better To Be Single
The headline reads "It's better to be single, study finds." The study is the peer-reviewed paper "Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to…
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The Limits Of Science
The title of this article could equally well be "The limits of philosophy" or of theology, or of any intellectual endeavor. The question is: can we continue to learn indefinitely?…
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What People Think Probability Words Mean
The graph above came from Github and was the result of a poll of folks on Reddit. "The raw data came from /r/samplesize responses to the following question: What [probability/number]…
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Free Probability-Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part XI
Review! We left off with comparing the standard, out-of-the-box linear regression with our multinomial predictive observable model. The great weaknesses of the regression were probability leakage (giving positive probability to…
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Free Probability-Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part X
Review! Last time we created four models of CGPA. Which is correct? They all are. Why? I should ask as a homework question, but I'll remind us here. Since all…
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Pew’s New Survey on Religious Groups Views on Abortion
Stream: Pew's New Survey on Religious Groups Views on Abortion According to a new survey by Pew Research, Unitarian Universalists are the strongest proponents of legal abortion, and Jehovah's Witnesses…
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Free Probability-Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part IX
Review! Last time we successfully computed our model (8): (8) Pr(CGPA = i | guesses of new measures, grading rules, old obs, model), where i = 0,...,5. The model…