Probably Overthinking It

A blog by Allen Downey.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Freshman hordes even more godless!

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[This is an update of an article I wrote last year, " Freshman hordes more godless than ever ."  There is a followup to this artic...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Think Complexity, Part Two

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My new book,  Think Complexity , will be published by  O'Reilly Media  in March. For people who can't stand to wait that long, I am ...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Think Complexity

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Think Complexity On Friday I turned in the manuscript for Think Complexity , which will be published by O'Reilly Media in March (or, ...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Some of my best friends are crackpots

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I have a soft spot for crank science.  Recently I visited Norumbega Tower , which is an enduring monument to the crackpot theories of Eben N...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Frank is a scoundrel, probably

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My friend Ted Bunn wrote an article, " Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Bayesian doesn’t care ," inspired in pa...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Are first babies more likely to be light?

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Way back in February I analyzed data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and answered the question " Are first babies more...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Estimating the age of renal tumors

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UPDATE April 2, 2012: I wrote a paper describing this work and submitted it to arXiv. You can download it here . Abstract :   We present a...
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