Category Archives: trashcan categorial
Updated Olympics rankings
I did this before, so I’m adding in the Winter Olympics figures to see who is the most successful per head of population… the results might surprise you, again…
Filed under Pop culture, Social evolution, trashcan categorial
Correlation does not imply causation
One of the oldest fallacies is the “fallacy of affirming the consequent“. Basically it is the logical form of the old statistical fallacy of taking correlation to imply causation. Just because two things are true doesn’t mean there is some … Continue reading
Filed under General Science, Systematics, trashcan categorial
Lazy Manager Theory
Some people have asked me how I did a PhD, and wrote and taught a subject, while I was also manager of a department of graphic artists, receptionists, and animators, and did the annual report and various other publications. The … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Philosophy, trashcan categorial, Truisms
On gods and religion
I have just had a very pleasant meeting of the minds with Justin Barrett here in Oxford, who gave me some of his time. We agreed on a lot, and this has set me thinking that I should document some … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Evolution, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Social evolution, trashcan categorial
I’m a bit annoyed
… that we give massive coverage to the death of a known child abuser and pedophile, and ignore the death of someone who lived a decent life and so far as we can tell was a good mother. There are … Continue reading
Filed under trashcan categorial
Catching up, deeply breathing, summarising
So while I have lots to do, lots happens (and when I have little to do, nothing noteworthy happens and I am forced to rely on that scarcest of resources, my own ability). John Lynch wrote a blog entry on … Continue reading
How many ways can you make a logical mistake?
A while back I got interested in the various taxonomies of fallacies, such as the Fallacy Files, each giving their own set of names. It set me thinking: how many fallacies are there? From that question it hit me: there … Continue reading
Filed under History, Philosophy, Sermon, trashcan categorial
Various divers thingies
My union is calling a strike next Tuesday. I’m not sure what to do. I don’t teach, and have no administrative duties, so should I stop thinking from for 8 hours? I’m not sure the administration would notice… Rob Skipper … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Religion, Species and systematics, Technology, trashcan categorial
So many bad puns, so little time
Wilkins is fragile and destablised Intellectual tourist attacks local inhabitants All happy bacteria are alike (or is that like each other?) Australian current affairs gets vaccination right! [That's not a pun, it's an act of God] The original video is … Continue reading
