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Correlation Implies Causation

A version of this post originally appeared on 20 October 2012. But after a Twitter conversation with our friend @Neuro_Skeptic, it's time for an addition. Comes a Salon article entitled…

Statistics

Statistics Talk: Chances Are You’re Doing It Wrong

The problem with statistics is the astonishing amount of magical thinking tolerated. A statistician---or his apprentice; this means you---waving a formula over a dataset is little different than an alchemist…

Culture Philosophy

The Moral Case Against Designer Babies

"Should prospective parents seek information about gene variants that increase the risk their children will develop diseases as adults? Should physicians provide that information?" So asks Ronald Bailey, only just…

Statistics

The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (Book. Sort Of.)

I have decided to let you, dear reader, help me finish my book, which I have tentatively entitled The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics. This is about the seventeenth version…

Statistics

What Regression Really Is: Part I

This is the start of a series of reference articles which explain analytical techniques, with a focus on the philosophy, understanding, common mistakes, and not mathematics. Overview Regression, a.k.a. "linear…

Culture Statistics

It Was Right To Dumb Down The SAT

It's difficult to design a test such that all those taking it do not all do well nor all do poorly. For instance, suppose the SAT were to consist of…

Statistics

Scientists Discover Men Enjoy Looking At Women’s Breasts.

Regular readers will recall there are two main kinds of bad statistics. First is when the technique has been done wrong or is misapplied. Errors of this kind comprise only…

Book review Statistics

My Genes Made Me Vote For Obama: Predisposed Reviewed

Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith, and John Alford. If a conservative is a person who clings to what is, who resists…

Hagfish Bagpipe on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
Wonderful graphic. That's what I would say if the bloody bouncer dropped the velvet rope and let me enter Club…
C-Marie on The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then SuddenlyNovember 13, 2024
There has always been "the church system of man" within the Catholic Church. Do read Matthew 24: 4-8 " 4…
Briggs on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
All, I have done examples so many times I lost count. Here's one: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/36507/ We'll be doing this in Class…
NLR on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 13, 2024
The situation Rudolf Harrier describes is disappointing. But, unfortunately, there is currently an effort to destroy mathematics, though so far…
Jorge Gonzales on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
I got A's in statistics but always hated it. Statistically speaking it was 80% lying with numbers and 20% proving…