It’s a Small World, Peoples’ Choice Edition
Vote on the 34th Annual Small World Photomicrography Competition
Date: October 3rd, 2008
An Abbie-Someone Distribution
The Lake Wobegon Distribution at The Universe of Discourse
[T]he remark reminded me of how many people do seem to believe that most distributions are normal. More than once on internet mailing lists I have encountered people who ridiculed others for asserting that “nearly all x are above [or below] average”. This is a recurring [...]
Prediction vs Explanation
Prediction vs Explanation: A Puzzle
We do ten experiments. A scientist observes the results, constructs a theory consistent with them, and uses it to predict the results of the next ten. We do them and the results fit his predictions. A second scientist now constructs a theory consistent with the results of all twenty experiments.
The two [...]
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