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Professor’s Long-Accurate Presidential Election Model Picks Biden. How Do We Judge This Model?

How impressive does this headline sound: "Forecaster who's predicted every presidential winner correctly for 40 YEARS reveals who he thinks will win 2024 election"? We'll use this to look at…

Philosophy

Woke Call Speaking Undesirable Truths Epistemic Violence

Silence, they say---and they do say this---is violence. So is speaking violence. At least when the words spoken express disagreement with woke local truths, which is to say, with woke…

Statistics

The Man In Charge Of The Vatican Says You’re A Fool If You Don’t Believe Athletes Will Run 0.006 Seconds Faster Per Degree Temperature Increase

In my long studied career of insolence and rough defense of Reality, not to mention my general constitutive abrasiveness---I was "born that way"---I have been called every variety of choice…

Class

Why Pope Benedict’s resignation was valid: a response to Dr. Mazza - LifeSite - Christianity House on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
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Uncle Mike on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 22, 2024
It's a topsy-turvy world! The schools ban lunches but allow boys in the girls bathrooms. Peanuts bad, rape okay. But…
Oral.sk - Necenzurované správy Pre?o bola rezignácia pápeža Benedikta platná: odpove? Dr. Mazzovi on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
[…] [5] Pozri “Debata o tom, ?i je pápež František pápežom, pokra?uje. Dva poh?ady Edmunda J. Mazzu a Stevena O’Reillyho,”…
Tars Tarkas on Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished ExpertNovember 22, 2024
"Lichtman, poor fellow, did not resist. I have sympathy for him. He has been sought, and lauded, every four years,…
McChuck on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 22, 2024
@PhilH - What you are describing *is* quantum mechanics. More specifically, quantum field theory. Once you eliminate all the woo-hoo…

Professor’s Long-Accurate Presidential Election Model Picks Biden. How Do We Judge This Model?

Woke Call Speaking Undesirable Truths Epistemic Violence

The Man In Charge Of The Vatican Says You’re A Fool If You Don’t Believe Athletes Will Run 0.006 Seconds Faster Per Degree Temperature Increase

Class 4: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: The Return of Logic

Student Protests To End After Finals: TWID

Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?

Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just Skyrocketed

Bipartisan Means The Fix Is In