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Recommended: DataMind website
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PMean: Claims lacking specificity are meaningless
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Recommended: Use = or <- for assignment?
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PMean: Is Possibility Theory better than Probability Theory?
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Recommended: “Any other comments?” Open questions on questionnaires – a bane or a bonus to research?
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PMean: The cost of a bad prediction
Paul Krugman wrote up an interesting application of Bayes Theorem on his blog on the New York Times. I want to adapt his example and expand it a bit. Continue reading
Recommended: How confidence intervals become confusion intervals.
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Recommended: The riddle of experience vs. memory
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There are a series of experiments that show that your memory of an event is colored more by the experience at the end of the event. This leads to some fascinating contradictions between what you should want from a rational perspective and what you actually want. The speaker is a Nobel-Prize winning Economist who has developed much of the research in behavioral economics. Continue reading
PMean: You can now register for an account on my blog.
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