June 2011
2 posts
Conspiracies and crazies
It’s kind of starting to weird me out how difficult it is to tell how much paranoia
is justified vis-à-vis the government and businesses these days. It occurred
to me when listening to the Latest in Paleo podcast that, while people
that refer to “Big Pharma” are probably insane, some of the things that they’re
complaining about do seem valid. I suppose that in some ways...
Striving for Statistical Significance
I think we can take it as axiomatic by now that one shouldn’t be basing their
sense of self-worth on what other people think of them — that sort of thing
leads to some pretty pathological behaviour. On the other hand though, if you
completely disregard what other people think, you run a pretty fair chance of
deluding yourself into thinking you’re better than you are (viz. the...