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Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability

Via Ed Feser I was led back to Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, which has a lot about probability. I'll not do much of…

Book review Statistics

A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability

Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…

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Stream: Who’s Better At Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?

Stream: Who's Better At Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls? The NBC News story "Female Doctors Outperform Male Doctors, According to Study" makes these bold claims. Patients treated by women are…

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Chapter 10 of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics FREE for New Subscribers!

Today a deal so unbelievable that it can't be believed! No, wait. In fact, the deal was so unbelievable that it couldn't be believed. This follows logically: that which is…

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Gonorrhea, Wee P-values, and Tax Increases

Adventurous reader Ted Poppke discovered a peer-reviewed paper that, according to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), proved that increasing sales tax on booze "caused a 24% decrease in gonorrhea cases…

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Some Statistics On What The Sexual Rebellion Wraught

I'm always complaining of statistics gone awry, but a constant diet of bad news can lead to bad things, like a desire to listen to NPR or to use PowerPoint.…

Philosophy Statistics

Is Most Published Research Wrong? Yep. Here’s Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q One of my students---my heart soars like a hawk!---sent me the video linked above. I'll assume you've watched it, as my comments make reference to it. About the dismal…

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Bayesian Statistics Isn’t What You Think

Back to our Edge series. Sean Carroll says Bayes's Theorem should be better known. He outlines the theorem in the familiar updating-prior-belief formula. But, as this modified classic article shows,…

Briggs on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Thanks, Bruce. I've only just now started reading his papers, such as the staring ones. We need to wean him…
Cary Cotterman on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Anthropogenic climate change cultism, corona virus hysteria, and transgender "affirmative care" dogma should have taught us to dismiss anyone who…
bruce g charlton on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
I was interested in Sheldrake from early in his career - and saw him give a lecture in 1984, which…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science PanicsDecember 23, 2024
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The Lesson Scientists Never Learn – William M. Briggs on Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is HealingDecember 23, 2024
[…] Since it is a slow week, I was thinking about variations on Rupert Sheldrake’s idea of morphic resonance, and…