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Statistics Compared To Ladies Of Ill Repute?

While Theoretical Statistics is (mainly) a decent albeit rather boring mathematical discipline (Probability Theory is much more exciting), so called Applied Statistics is in its big part a whore. Finding…

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The Great Bayesian Switch

Update: See this post on the definition of confidence and credible intervals. Submitted for your approval, a new paper. A polemic describing in nascent terms the paradise that awaits us…

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All Of Statistics: Part II

(A) No new data (cont.) If we want to know how that data arose, and we are not satisfied by X itself, we need to propose a model---a fully causal…

Culture Statistics

Do Conservatives Distrust Science More Than Liberals?

Science versus Scientism That, anyway, is the latest question making the rounds in the science wars. The simplistic answer, the one de rigueur on campuses and newsrooms, is "Yes." Why,…

Statistics

Conservatives Produced By “Low Effort” Thinking: Study

If there is one subject which fascinates academics more than any other, it is why are they so smart and the rest of the populace not. Although there is no…

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Academic Pscyhologists Over-Rely On WEIRD People: Overconfidence Results

It was just over a month ago that tears of joy came to my eyes while reading an academic paper. This was Simmons et alia's "False-Positive Psychology : Undisclosed Flexibility…

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True Value Of A Parameter

Jelle de Jong writes in to ask: Working as a quant analyst in finance I recently got interested in the Briggsian/Jaynesian/Bayesian interpretation of probability but am still struggling a bit…

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Why probability isn’t relative frequency: redux

(Pretend, if you have, that you haven't read my first weak attempt. I'm still working on this, but this gives you the rough idea, and I didn't want to leave…

Daniel F on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
The major roadblock in the US is discrimination lawsuits at the hiring / employer level. B.A.'s are largely used as…
Johnno on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Hear! Hear! Briggs! Let us begin by awarding ourselved medals for a job well done. The greater the screeching for…
JH on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
From my experience, watering down in mathematics has been occurring since I began teaching nearly three decades ago. This trend…
DAA on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
One of the most problematic aspects of this change is how to really evaluate people. Universities as they stand do…
Paul Fischer on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Join? RAB? Who's in the group so far? I mean, it's a great idea, but shouldn't we focus on slaying…