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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Guest post: No Assumptions for a Change

…generalists prior to their specialization. Once the entire context of selection, training, and practice support was designed subspecialist, this understanding was lost and the current assumptions reigned unchallenged. The subspecialty…

I dare to disagree with Nate Silver

…biased (by selection) each is equally biased in opposite directions. The final average is unbiased and based on a larger sample (with a larger denominator) so it has lower variance…

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…sequence data that fit’s the theory of natural selection except by remembering that unimportant anatomical details and DNA sequences are what one would expect if the theory of evolution by…

Do Economists Agree about Microeconomics ?

…? or if genes are objects with a mass and a location ? Or if they believe in evolution by natural selection (or stronger if they think that the current…

…here.) Now, you might think of this as an innocent biological coincidence, something involving evolution, natural selection, 17-year life cycles, and so forth. If so, then you fail to grasp…