Title says it all. Apparently, some think this is not the case, but it is a straightforward application of Bayes' theorem. When I first learned of Bayes' theorem years ago,…
I had the impression that, since recognition of [problem] dates back at least to [person from a long time ago], there was a voluminous literature and [statistics to deal with…
Earlier posts: Something about certainty, proofs in math, induction/abduction, Is the summed cubes equal to the squared sum of counting integer series? The things I'm going to say for math…
In the review of a paper submitted to ODP some time ago, the issue of a general extremism factor in religion came up. Unfortunately, Dutton deleted the submission thread, so…
I've always considered myself a very rational and fairly unbiased person. Being aware of the general tendency for people to overestimate themselves (see also visualization of the Dunning-Kruger effect), this…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind I had heard good things about this book, sort of. It has been cited a lot. Enough that I would be wiling to read it, given that the author…
Goodreads. Ebook. To those who don't know Bostrom, he's a prof of filosofy at Oxford. His book concerns superintelligence which is defined "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134567.Reassembling_the_Social http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Reassembling+the+Social&open=0&view=simple&column=def This is quite possibly the worst non-amateur book I've ever read. My notes to this book are so many that in the latter parts of the book, I…
BMI (body mass index) is often used a proxy for fat percent or similar measures. This is for a good reason: So, the mean correlation across age groups and gender…
In a comment on research of psychedelics, I found this gem: .Your brain is a matrix that is dispensing substances known as neurotransmitters which don't actually transmit anything but rather…