professor of philosophy of science, logic, experiment, statistical inference; now an independent philosopher & stock trader; split time in NYC & Va (and London)
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C. S. Peirce's birthday yesterday: C. S. Peirce and the Error Correcting Thesis errorstatistics.com/2026/09/…
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Data centers–How about an adversarial collaboration? errorstatistics.com/2026/09/…
Data centers–How about an adversarial collaboration? errorstatistics.com/2026/09/…
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I can't get enough of this family of illusions (not least because it took me so long to figure out how they work).
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I care about reproducibility, but I find it deeply problematic that the British ecological society is trying to extract free labour from academics (oh no, you get free membership for a year!) to work for them for 3 years on reproducibility checks.
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Can someone explain how a sitting president can have a prostate cancer metastasize without early detection when it had been symptomatic for a while --and how these moronic doctors can refrain from doing a PSA test!
"Can you make me more capable? Of art, astrophysics and AI" In this post I ponder wether we should benchmark AI according to how well it increases human capabilities. I consider the possibility of a personalized instructor who increaess my life-drawing ability in a few months time errorstatistics.com/2026/07/…
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In the last 2 years I (and our lovely collaborators) have been rather obsessively working on Metacheck - a tool to automatically check best practices in papers. In this RIOTS summerschool talk, I walk you through what the tool can do, and future plans youtube.com/watch?v=OWd2zEwh…
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Don't know Dennett, I do know that 99% of criticisms in stat foundations reflect identical misinterpretations, howlers & bad arguments!
Weird. I didn't even know what this was, I once visited a place with swirling water. Wordle 1,867 2/6
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I post a Happy (belated) Birthday to Sir David Cox here. errorstatistics.com/2026/07/…
In my new blogpost I pull back the cover regarding claims that low powered tests "exaggerate" population effects: "low power and an all too standarderror: continuation of 'don't turn power on its head'. errorstatistics.com/2026/06/…
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With Deborah Mayo, Kent Staley, and Wendy Parker we are editing a special issue of Synthese on "Severity and Learning from Error": link.springer.com/collection… Deadline for submissions is the 15th of December, 2026. If this is a topic that you are interested in, consider contributing!
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New CFP at Synthese! I invite you to contribute: Topical Collection: severity and learning from error
New CFP at Synthese! I invite you to contribute: Topical Collection: severity and learning from error