Comments on: Debunked And Well-Refuted http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:07:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-169744 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:50:48 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-169744 LOL. So I guess we just accepted that blurred image from the camera as the empirical evidence and wouldn’t send someone out to clean the lens.

Oh, and let’s not forget statistical significance.

at 95 CI you still have that niggling 5% change of being wrong.

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]]> By: dhill http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-169607 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:36:39 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-169607 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Anarcho-tyranny

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]]> By: dhill http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-169571 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:39:42 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-169571 I’m not the OP, but my girlfriend often relates me the stories of her friends that match the description above.

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]]> By: On examining evidences for points of view, etc | The Daily Pochemuchka http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-168493 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:16:05 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-168493 […] Debunked and Well-Refuted […]

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]]> By: Eli http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-168270 Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:22:32 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-168270 I don’t think I understand how 6/1000 becomes 50/1000 through the mechanisms talked about in the Vox article. Wouldn’t you need a much higher unreport rate than 56%? If 50% are unreported, then we’re at 12/1000.

Wouldn’t we need a lot more than 15% of women claiming it was “unpleasant” but not a crime? A lot more than 32% calling it a crime but not rape? It’s not only not capturing the whole of the difference that needs to be made up, it’s not coming close to half of it.

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]]> By: David Friedman http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-167093 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:42:17 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-167093 Max: I’m not sure if you’ve read my long blog post that we’re arguing about; if not perhaps you should. It sounds from your response as though you may be misunderstanding the situation and my argument

There are two different papers of which Cook is a coauther. In the second, he claims that the first found 97% support for humans as the main cause of warming. That’s false. The first paper found 97% support for humans as a cause of warming—”contributed to” in the words of the example for Category 2. It found 1.6% support for humans as the principal cause of warming.

You can’t convert that falsehood into truth by observing that the *first*paper explained that 97% was for Categories 1-3. The second paper claimed that the first showed 97% support for humans as the main cause of warming, which wasn’t what it showed.

Does that help? My original post is at:

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-climate-falsehood-you-can-check-for.html

You might also want to follow links there so whether what Cook claimed I said corresponded to what I actually said.

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]]> By: Troy http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-167065 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:04:15 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-167065 “After controlling for IQ, the average black made 98% of the [average] white wage.” (p. 323 of the Bell Curve)

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]]> By: Santiago http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-166677 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 04:36:49 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-166677 I make too many isolated demands for rigor, and your essay helped me realize that. I will be more careful about that in the future.

Thank you.

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]]> By: Harald K http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-166322 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:06:20 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-166322 Jaskologist: Just because climate sensitivity is harder to check, doesn’t mean we can just pretend it doesn’t exist.

I gave you the number you wanted, now please give me the number I wanted: your best estimate for climate sensitivity. It is in fact a far more important number than what the temperature will be in 5 years.

Just discussing temperatures without wanting to say a word about the climate system, is a lot like discussing this patient’s pneumonia, lymphoma and opportunistic fungal infections while being completely agnostic to the possibility of immune system problems.

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]]> By: Anthony http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/#comment-166223 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:33:34 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3435#comment-166223 There are huge social class (and race) variations in abortion rates – even if 30% of women have ever had an abortion, the women you hang out with might have a much lower (or higher) rate.

I would suspect that the sexual assault rates are less variable, but I could be wrong.

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