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Naomi Oreskes Plays Dumb On Statistics And Climate Change

This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Remember how I said, again and again---and again---that everybody gets statistics wrong? Here's proof…

Philosophy

Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VII: Is there a Multiverse?–Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

An Introduction To Uncertainty: Probability, Statistics, and Modeling of All Kinds

This is a teaser, the first part of a 3,200-word narrative outline for the book that I've started to shop around. The current title is in the headline. Regular readers…

Philosophy Statistics

The Biggest Error In Regression

I know, I know: we're sick to death of regression, but we have to cover the biggest error, which is how the Deadly Sin of Reification happens. You have a…

Philosophy Statistics

Frequentists Are Closet Bayesians: Confidence Interval Edition

Actually, all frequentists and Bayesians are logical probabilists, but if I put that in the title, few would believe it. A man might call himself an Anti-Gravitational Theorist, a science…

Statistics

Class Report: How Not To Teach Statistics

It's over. Two solid weeks of 9 to 5 to 9 and beyond statistics. Plus a few cocktails and cookouts and camaraderie. I'm exhausted. The students are mostly later early…

Statistics

Yet Another Author Claims Statistically Significant Temperature Change. 99.999%!

Update 6 Sep 2014 Yet another another another study has claimed "statistical significance", this one by Philip Kokica, Steven Crimpc, and Mark Howdend. "A probabilistic analysis of human influence on…

Fun Statistics

Climate Hustle, Readers Write

Hustling along I was over at the UN yesterday and met Marc Marano, who interviewed me for his upcoming documentary tentatively titled Climate Hustle. With fedora jauntily tipped back to…

Michael Dowd on Merry Christmas!December 25, 2024
Merry Christmas Mr. Briggs. Lest talk and more thought is a Christmas message for all of us. May God Bless…
Michael DeLong on Merry Christmas!December 25, 2024
Merry Christmas Mr. Briggs and may your new year be wonderful. V/r Michael
SHAWN E MARSHALL on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 25, 2024
crucifixion not fiction beginning It is not difficult to conceive that the Divine Christ - He and the Father are…
hudbwu on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 25, 2024
A Christmas-related thought occured to me this morning and I'd like to share it with the audience here. It's not…
Tars Tarkas on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
Merry Christmas Briggs. Thanks for all your articles.