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Review of “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari (4/5) Time now for the penultimate review of Sapiens. In the first three parts, we saw the emergence of our species, its spreadaround the globe, and some of the unifying forces that have made human culture truly global. Now it’s time for the discovery that helped humans totally transform the planet and which could one day transform our species itself. It’s time to cover the Scientific Revolution. -------------------------Chapter 13 The Secret of Su [...]
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Excursion 1 Tour I (3rd stop): The Current State of Play in Statistical Foundations: A View From a Hot-Air Balloon (1.3) Readers: With this third stop we’ve covered Tour 1 of Excursion 1. My slides from the first LSE meeting in 2020 which dealt with elements of Excursion 1 can be found at the end of this post. There’s also a video giving an overall intro to SIST, Excursion 1. It’s noteworthy to consider just how […]
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Severity and Adversarial Collaborations (i) In the 2025 November/December issue of American Scientist, a group of authors (Ceci, Clark, Jussim and Williams 2025) argue in “Teams of rivals” that “adversarial collaborations offer a rigorous way to resolve opposing scientific findings, inform key sociopolitical issues, and help repair trust in science”. With adversarial collaborations, a term coined by Daniel Kahneman (2003), […]
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November: The leisurely tour of SIST continues We continue our leisurely tour of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing [SIST] (Mayo 2018, CUP) with Excursion 3. This is based on my 5 seminars at the London School of Economics in 2020; I include slides and video for those who are interested. (use the comments for questions) November’s Leisurely Tour: N-P and Fisherian Tests, Severe […]
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Where Are Fisher, Neyman, Pearson in 1919? Opening of Excursion 3, snippets from 3.1 This second excerpt for November is really just the preface to 3.1. Remember, our abbreviated cruise this fall is based on my LSE Seminars in 2020, and since there are only 5, I had to cut. So those seminars skipped 3.1 on the eclipse tests of GTR. But I want to share snippets from 3.1 […]
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