Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
It smells like bad managers or simple corruption: In a period when enrollment has declined by almost 8,000 students, BPS has added more than 1,400 employees, justified in part by…
In the first 3 months, Neil Ferguson’s disease model projected: Every item projected by Neil Ferguson’s team was wrong, immensely wrong. Neil Ferguson recommended the UK’s lockdown strategy, but then…
This financial disaster was due to public health “Experts” who thought they could shut down the world with ineffective NPIs and stop the spread of a highly contagious virus –…
In response to Russia’s war on Ukraine, Norway banned Russian aircraft from flying over Norway, or the operation of non-Russian registered aircraft by a Russian citizen. The bureaucrats interpreted the…
Twitter censored online speech about Covid topics. 100% of what most of us see is selectively reported, edited, hidden, then curated, promoted, de-emphasized, censored as part of someone's propaganda campaign.
In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments…
Models making long range predictions are mostly wrong, all the time. Why do we give them any credence? Go back and look at worthless disease model projections: Economists misjudged how…
The Graduate Record Exam or GRE is a standardized exam produced by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) organization, to judge one’s suitability to attend graduate school – except it turned…
But critics say Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapse shows that the movement was always morally compromised — “a con,” as author Anand Giridharadas put it — because it didn’t seem to care…
Instead, MacAskill is the thinker perhaps most associated with the moral philosophy known as “effective altruism,” which was profoundly influential on Bankman-Fried, Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and others in their…