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HANDY Not So Dandy: NASA-Funded Mathematical Model Of Doom

Mathematically minded Remember back in the 1990s when otherwise intelligent people would look to the scientific literature and say, "Those guys must be right. They used a computer model." A…

Philosophy Statistics

What That Spurious Correlation Website Tells Us About Statistics

Many (thanks!) readers sent links to Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations, whose motto is "Discover a new correlation - an interesting spurious correlation each day!" My favorite is tying the yearly…

Philosophy Statistics

What Statistics Really Is: Part II

Read Part I, Part Paradox I claimed, and it is true, that all statistical problems could be written $latex \Pr(p|q)$, where p is a proposition of interest and q is…

Statistics

The Top Five Mistakes In Marketing Statistics

Forgive me the title, won't you? It is my own creation, I admit, but numbered promises are eminently clickable. Plus they are the norm in business writing. Anyway, the real…

Statistics

(Most) Everything Wrong With Time Series

It came out at my recent meeting that a compilation of everything wrong with time series was in order. A lot of this I've done before, and so, just as…

Philosophy Statistics

Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part Final: Parameters!

(All the stuff in this series is, in a fuller form, in my new upcoming book, which is tentatively called Logical Probability and Statistics---but I've only changed the title 342…

Statistics

Failed Counterexamples To The Principle Of Indifference

What is the so-called Principle Of Indifference? A semi-screwy, semi-right idea in probability. To cadge an example from David Stove, let T be any tautology (a truth), then Pr(Bob…

Statistics

How To Properly Handle Proxy Time Series Reconstructions

This is all made up data, so as not to hurt anybody's feelings. Also, this is a sketch. Everything can't be done in 700 words. We are interested in the…

SHAWN E MARSHALL on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
I don't believe Time exists as a physical entity I don't believe the speed of light is constant I cannot…
Johnno on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
BRIGGS, YOU FOOL! AND ALL YOU FOOLISH EXPURTS TOO!!! There is also a sixtly! SIXTLY - A novice can assess…
hudbwu on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
Well this was a cherry article (not sarcasm). Merry Christmas!
Johnno on How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)December 24, 2024
A better word than "insane", would be "Satanic," because we would do a disservice to the actually clinically insane, who…
Paul murphy on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Nonsense - but merry Christmas!