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We Gave Them The Willies
I have returned from my conference where I gave a half-stunned audience my lecture The Top Six Fallacies In Statistics. But though I labored long and hard, it wasn't all…
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Another Revolution In College Learning
Did you hear? Our top universities gathered their number-one administrators and professors at a secret conclave and, acting as one, created a new device which will "revolutionize" college learning. You've…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Pascal & Barzun On Scientism
Blaise Pascal was a man smarter than I and smarter than thou. He was a scientist, mathematician, probabilist, and was deeply, deeply Catholic. Pascal as scientist warned against trusting science…
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End Of The World Set For 2047. Plan Accordingly
Bob Geldorf (and who the hell is he?) was off by seventeen years. But then I read he's a singer and no professional climatologist. Since he's some big hoo-hah celebrity,…
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The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians
Cast your mind back to 1980. Nobody, not a soul, knew that gaspers, coffin nails, and cancer sticks were bad for you.1 Tobacco companies used an advanced form of mind…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Scrap Statistics, Begin Anew
You or I might perhaps be excused if we sometimes toyed with solipsism, especially when we reflect on the utter failure of our writings to produce the smallest effect in…
Posted inFun Statistics
My Complete And Utter Lack Of Business Sense
I can derive the Omega equation, can tell you why clouds float, and I know what number comes after א0, but I couldn't sell fire to an Eskimo. Not for…
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On-Line Courses Not Faring Well—As Expected
Two months back I made the non-joke that MOOC's---massive off-line open courses---were not new, not "revolutionary", and were therefore not going to "change the face of education as we know…
