This is a guest post by Nathan Paxton. As social scientists, at least as regards what we can empirically assess, we tend to make statements of probability rather than fact. So rather than say that ...

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Marty Makary was appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2025. The prominent surgeon, medical researcher, bestselling author, and critic of the medical ...

I like Bayesian statistics but I hate the way they are being forced upon us as the only way of knowing God. And I think frequentist statistics have much to recommend themselves, even when embedded in ...