Part I Part III PDF DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: Part II of III Now before you accuse me of anything, I like ballet. Not to watch it, that’s as dull as listening to […]
DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: II of III
DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: I of III
In celebration of my having work, I present something that requires no thinking (on my part). Part II Part III PDF DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS Part I of III Kick…two, three, four…twist…six, […]
At ASA/ISM Joint Statistical Meetings
Link. Watch this space for stories. (Updates to comments on other posts will be slow.) Update: Tuesday night. This story, sent in by Jim D., is a must read. Statistical poetry! “I […]
Models, theories, consistency, and truth
Ready? Put on your best straight face, recall that global temperatures have not increased for a decade, and that it’s actually been getting cooler, then repeat with Brenda Ekwurzel, of the Union […]
Coin, queries, and screening
Work has caught up with me yet again, so here are three interesting stories to wile the time away. The probability of a coin flip Reader Ari Schwartz sent in this link, […]
Leszek Kolakowski is dead
From Roger Kimball we learn that the fascinating Polish philosopher has died. Kolakowski was probably best know for his magisterial three-volume Main Currents of Marxism , published in the late 1970s and […]
Hannah Arendt on global warming theory
…there are, indeed, few things that are more frightening than the steadily increasing prestige of scientifically minded brain trusters in the councils of government during the last decades. The trouble is not […]
Do NOT smooth time series before computing forecast skill
Somebody at Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit kindly linked to an old article of mine entitled “Do not smooth series, you hockey puck!”, a warning that Don Rickles might give. Smoothing creates artificially […]
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