Die P value, Die.

This comment discusses William "Matt" Briggs new book, which is on order. One comment before this: such work is needed.
There is a book of this type every so often and the appeals apply to every field which does not do…
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Site stats for July

The stats measurements are as usual, odd. 13 K on Sitemeter, 9 K on Wordpress Stats. Fairly consistent.
Page Views Unique Visits First Time Visits Returning Visits
July 2016 13,588 8,520 4,708
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Missionaries set the seed for democracy.

This is a brilliant example of proper social sciences research. Those Victorian missionaries them done good.
Woodberry's historical and statistical work has finally captured glowing attention. A summation of his 14 years of research—published…
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2013 summary and some admin

Well, since it is a new year and I have some time to-day to sort  things out.
  1. The default 2014 theme has gone, instead I'm using SimplyBlack by Guido van der Leest. This means that the posts are summarized and the format is a bit more…
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Reversion to the mean (divorce rates, NZ).

The most important thing to consider here is that the Family Proceedings Act was completely rewritten in 1980 (it has been amended since multiple times) but the core reasons for dissolution of a marriage in the eyes of the law have not changed.
Section 39.Grounds for…
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