Jonathan Carroll on Dogs

“Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had all of them, we would call them […]

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A Message For All Humanity

Interpreting Statistical Evidence

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/05/interpreting-statistical-evidence.html 1)  In evaluating any study try to take into account the amount of background noise.  That is, remember that the more hypotheses which are tested and the less selection which goes into choosing hypotheses the more likely it is that you are looking at noise. 2) Bigger samples are better.  (But note that even […]