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Five Eras in the Evolution of Probability and Statistics

Statistics isn’t a new thing. It dates back at least fifty centuries beginning as counts in the form of tally marks for keeping track of crops, animals, people, and time. From there, it evolved with the demands of government and … Continue reading →

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Science and Cookies

Creating science is like making cookies—you need a recipe, ingredients, and tools to combine the ingredients and bake the dough. The recipe is the scientific method. The ingredients are the knowledge of the discipline and the data from the experiments. … Continue reading →

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When Science Goes Wrong

Science is our perception of how things work. The scientific method is how we determine what is the current state of our science. Science is the product of the successful application of the scientific method. They are not the same. … Continue reading →

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