[“Normal” data fits a bell curve. Mistakenly assuming data to be normal is a common error in statistical practice.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normality_test …
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Sound Epistemology Cat keeps up with the literature.pic.twitter.com/SClGTkxlwy
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[I wrote about keeping up with the literature, using the Secret Paper Passing Network, back when it involved paper: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to/section3.4.html … ]
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Sound Epistemology Cat accumulates evidence impartially.pic.twitter.com/H1aqvYDDwU
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Sound Epistemology Cat experiments with a paraconsistent
#Buddhist#logic system.pic.twitter.com/VDMbTPjEdL
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[Paraconsistent logic systems are ones that allow contradictions (as human reasoning does). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic … ]
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[The famous Buddhist logician Dharmakīrti’s system is paraconsistent; he stars in “Eating An Entire Epistemologist” http://buddhism-for-vampires.com/eating-an-entire-epistemologist … ]
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Sound Epistemology Cat goes back and checks the original data.pic.twitter.com/UCENcUQpHQ
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[A shocking %age of published scientific results are wrong due to data copying errors. Data cleaning is boring & thankless, but critical.]
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Sound Epistemology Cat is NOT in a mood to wade into your motte-and-bailey tar pit.pic.twitter.com/M4AOQfnQID
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[Motte-and-bailey is a common, sleazy rhetorical trick; the term was popularized in this essay by @slatestarcodex : http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-words-words-words/ … ]
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@Meaningness@slatestarcodex I live 50m from the base of an old Norman motte built in 1068. And that's not just sleazy rhetoric!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Jayarava@slatestarcodex Is that Cambridge Castle? Nearly took a pic of that last week to illustrate this humorously…2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - 1 more reply
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