Do gun ownership predict homicides taking race into account?
You may have seen a plot like this one: The reader is left to interpret that guns cause homicides. It's correct if we include suicides but it's not true for…
You may have seen a plot like this one: The reader is left to interpret that guns cause homicides. It's correct if we include suicides but it's not true for…
Let's think about causality and group-level comparisons. Here I mean any type of group, whether nations, sub-national divisions (states, regions, provinces, communes), religious classifications, races, or any other grouping. Sometimes…
I know, I know. It's fashionable to hate on formal education in the rationalist community. Here's an obligatory Twitter poll: And there's even some push-back in the funny article Why…
I'm taking a course in object orientated programming (OOP) at university. I always hated OOP, it seemed like an overly difficult way to doing the stuff I wanted. Now, the…
Today I had to work with PHP. I'm making a website to gather survey data because Google Forms cannot do what I need to do, e.g. give the user instant…
Because of their shortity I will replicate them here. Letter 70: "1. After a long space of time I have seen your beloved Pompeii.[1] I was thus brought again face…