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Stream: Hottest Yeah Evah
Stream: The Hottest Yeah Evah! Really? Or a yet another example of activism masquerading as science? Assume for a moment, as the press with triumphant glee is reporting, that 2016…
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Third Way Of Probability & Statistics Gets Comments
I just discovered a written comment, actually two, on my sketch-paper "The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill". Now when I…
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Statistical Models CANNOT Show Cause, But EVERYBODY Thinks They Can. Hence the Replication CRISIS
Please pass this on to ANY researcher who uses statistics. Pretty please. With sugar on top. Like I say below, it's far far far far far past time to cease…
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On The Demon Possessed Doll & Little Girl
You might have seen the video of the little girl playing near a doll, a doll which twitches its head without visible promoting. The video switches views and sees the…
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Debate Analysis & Election Predictions
These are tweets from last night's debate---which I'm putting up the night of the debate. The timing's important because here is my prediction, the last tweet of the night. https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/788933539664232448…
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Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument
There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…
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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…
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Big Data, Big Predictions — Big Deal!
The title, you'll be shocked to learn, is sarcastic. You'll forgive the tone after reading NBC's article "Big Data's Big Misses: 2016 Was a Bad Year For Predictions", which opens…
