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Blinks As Lie Detectors
The holy grail of behavioral psychology is a test which determines if a person is lying. One hasn't been discovered yet, though not because of a lack of effort. Pretty…
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Daily Links & Comments
@1 Amen! One should at least suspect [BS] when symbolism and other formal techniques that could easily be dispensed with without loss of rigor and with a great gain in…
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How To Properly Handle Proxy Time Series Reconstructions
This is all made up data, so as not to hurt anybody's feelings. Also, this is a sketch. Everything can't be done in 700 words. We are interested in the…
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Daily Liks & Comments
@1 Free concert tomorrow, Sunday, 27 October. 1:30 pm. Salve Regina: Music for the Heavenly Queen. St. Catherine of Sienna. 68th street between First and York. Gregorian Chant, Ave Maris…
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@1 The Loss of the Permanent Things in Higher Education: trivial, multicultural, relativistic, sexual and politically correct studies supplant what had been a focus on Western civilization. Link @2 November…
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Scientific Forecasts, Not Scenarios, For Climate Policy—Guest Post by J. Scott Armstrong
The human race has prospered by relying on forecasts that the seasons will follow their usual course, while knowing they will sometimes be better or worse. Are things different now?…
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(Most) Everything Wrong With Time Series
It came out at my recent meeting that a compilation of everything wrong with time series was in order. A lot of this I've done before, and so, just as…
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Vitamin D And Cancer
This is our second big week focusing on colorectual cancer. Three weeks makes a streak. We'll see. Our paper is Mapping Vitamin D Deficiency, Breast Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer by…