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What Are P-Values?
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, ...I'd still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the…
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Corruption Of All Authority: An Interim Doom Report
"Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." This is, as everybody knows, Conquest's Second Law. It is a true law, as all modern experience shows. But it…
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Mandatory Moral Bioenhancement
Nobody could possibly have foreseen that our beneficent government---which loves us and only wants what is best for us and in no way had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein's…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Providence’s Plan
Previous post. . HOW THE DISPOSITION OF PROVIDENCE HAS A RATIONAL PLAN 1 From the points set forth above it may be seen clearly that the things which are disposed…
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The Week In Doom — Emasculating Statues Edition
Item City commissioner: Replace male statues in Central Park with women A member of the commission that oversees art and architecture on city property suggested Monday that instead of simply…
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The Ignorant Lead The Misinformed On Strike
It should not be considered hurtful or insulting to call somebody ignorant when this somebody knows naught about the subject on which she is preaching. If even I, for example,…
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Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, "As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most", a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
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The Epidemiologist (P-value + Ecological) Fallacy Exposed (Video)
Video Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-IRdTWG2c The Epidemiologist Fallacy marries the Ecological Fallacy with the P-value Fallacy. The Ecological Fallacy is when it is said X causes Y, but X is not measured,…