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Re: Re: Re: Re: Philosophy

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Friday, 18 May 2007, at 10:59 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Re: Re: Statistics (Matt Cohn-Geier)

I found the Dan Dennett quote about philosophy: "The history of philosophy is a history of very tempting mistakes, and the people that we study in the history of philosophy—Plato and Aristotle and Kant and all the rest—they were not dummies. They were really smart people and they made stunning errors."

Not as scathing as I remembered. Oh wait -- then E.O. Wilson says, "Well put. I tried to encapsulate that similar notion by saying that philosophy consists of the history of failed models of the brain." And Dennett responds, "Not just failed models of the brain, failed models of everything [Laughs]."

Thank for the link to Elliot Sober's article on confidence intervals. That's helpful. I recognize his name as David Wilson's co-author.

Mark Chu-Carroll's Good Math, Bad Math blog has some good stuff on basics with some relevance to bg like standard deviation, margin of error and normal distributions.

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