Statistician to the Stars!
The general theory, methods, and philosophy of the Science of Guessing What Is.
Here is an example of a supposed paradox caused by using Keyne’s Principle of Indifference, which Stove and others (and myself) call the Statistical Syllogism (itself deduced from the symmetry…
On the same day the ACLU invented the term “menstrual equity“, here’s what JK Rowling said, quoted in case her tweet is deleted: Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever…
What is the purpose of modeling? There can be only two. The first is to say what happened, to explain. But in order to do this one must first assume…
See this peer-reviewed, but then-retracted, paper “Police violence and the health of black infants” by some person calling his- or herself Joscha Legewie? After it was peer reviewed by knowledgeable…
From Bill Raynor: Hello Matt, You like to discuss P(Y|M) a lot, but haven’t spent much time talking about the practical construction of that. A topic I’d like to see:…
Bad news is that there won’t be any news studies for us to pick on. With the two papers presented below, all scientific research has officially come to a close.…
Received this email from Valentin Amrhein et al. about the efforts to jettison for all time “significance”. And replace it (say I) with this. If only I could get the…
It’s difficult, but not impossible, to pick out the grifters from the true believers in the Lancet’s “Countdown on health and climate change.” But noticing the entire thing is scientific…