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Statistical Challenge: Can You Rate How Good This Study Was?
I will lose many of you today. But for those up for an intellectual challenge, this post is for you. This will not be easy. Let's play a game. I'm…
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Z-Scores Are Misleading & Create Panic: Or, How Not To Compare Pandemics
A number of people panicked to the point their minds have turned to quivering jelly, angry at my calmness, have been emailing and tweeting me the equivalent of "Oh yeah,…
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Cult Of The Mask: List Of Documented Mask Side Effects; Vexed; More! — Coronavirus Update LXIX
HOW TO WIELD POWER DeSantis suspends all local COVID-19 emergency orders Gov. DeSantis signed several executive orders to immediately suspend and eventually invalidate by July 1 all local emergency orders…
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BLACK! Babies Die At White Doctors’ Hands! Wee Ps Say So
Week or two back the world was shocked to learn that white doctors were killing BLACK! babies. Not the ones that haven't escaped their mothers' wombs: that's old, and even…
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My Origin Story – And More! In Which I’m Interviewed
BLOG EMAILS MIGHT NOT BE GOING OUT CONSISTENTLY. IF YOU GOT AN EMAIL, PLEASE DROP A COMMENT IF YOU HAVE TIME. THANKS. I was asked a terrific set of questions…
Posted inClass Statistics
Observable-Based , Predictive, or Causal Statistics? Don’t Test! Don’t Estimate!
The term predictive statistics is used to describe a focus on observables, and not on any invisible model-based parameters as is found in estimation and null hypothesis significance testing. It…
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Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?
We did Newcomb's Paradox (so called) years ago, and a twist in premises after that. But I thought it would be fun to revisit, because I had some new ideas…
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Nature Claims Cognitive Performance Declines After Being Exposed To A Candles
I used to review these papers in the hopes people would understand the old ways of doing statistics, in particular experiments on human subjects, were guaranteed to produce over-certainty. I…
