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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…

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Another Proof of the Uselessness of P-values

Susan Holmes has done us a service by writing clearly the philosophy of the p-value in her new paper "Statistical Proof? The Problem of Irreproducibility" in the Bulletin of the…

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Johnno: "It’s like a panacea, but in reverse." Good one.
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Have the reporters asked the White House if perhaps another booster might help the Biden? A certain someone said it…
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Technically, the Church had and used slaves. And even the Old Testament allowed for slavery under certain conditions. For example,…
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Corona viruses have a known summer season in the tropics and subtropics. So, yawn, no surprise that we are seeing…
hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 18, 2024
Of course, the abolition of slavery was something the (Catholic) Church worked basically since day 1. And I'm pretty sure…