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Insanity & Doom Update LIII
Item Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science cross the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders…
Posted inStatistics
The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Premature Birth Rate Edition
Hypothesis testing leads to more scientific nonsense than any other practice, including fraud. Hypothesis testing, as regular readers know, cannot identify cause. It conflates decision with probability and leads to…
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Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing
Nothing can cure significance testing. Except a bullet to the p-value. (That sound you heard was from readers pretending to swoon.) The paper is out and official---and free!: "Manipulating the…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXIV
Special Extra Edition of Insanity & Doom! Have to find a way to empty my mailbox. Item National Council of Math Teachers Annual Meeting Taking a Knee in Mathematics Education:…
Posted inBook review
Strobel’s The Case for Miracles Reviewed
We earlier did Strobel's press conference. I won't repeat details of that here, which is concerned solely with the book. Strobel sticks with the formula that brought him to the…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXIII
Item Cuckolding can be positive for some couples, study says In our current political climate, the term "cuck" -- short for "cuckservative" -- has become an insult of the so-called…
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Judea Pearl Is Wrong On AI Identifying Causality, But Right That AI Is Nothing But Curve Fitting
Yep I've disagreed with Judea Pearl before on causality, and I do so again below; but first some areas of agreement. Some deep agreement at that. Pearl has a new…
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Similarities Between ESP, Cold Fusion & Global Warming
Stream: Similarities Between ESP, Cold Fusion & Global Warming At the climate website No Tricks Zone, there is a picture of various estimates of CO2 climate sensitivity estimates. These are…
