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How to Lie with Numbers
by Jason Stotts Most people don’t realize how easy it is to lie with numbers as they don’t understand statistics or the difference between a causal connection and a correlation. For a great demonstration of this, see this essay where Stephen ironically proves that exercise causes obesity. Also, XKCD chimes in on the issue of…
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An All Too Common Confusion
by Jason Stotts I often hear people make fail to make a distinction between two drastically different things: Intelligence and Knowledge. Intelligence is a capacity for thinking and reasoning; it is analogous to a motor. Whereas knowledge is having actual understanding of facts and justified theories; it is analogous to fuel. When one calls someone…
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A Hymn to Death
by Jason Stotts I am going to die and I’m glad of it. I have never understood those who live their lives constantly dreading their mortality, as though the fact that they were going to die meant that they should never actually live. While clearly death is the end of life, death is not antithetical…
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Aporia: Threesomes
by Jason Stotts I’ve long been interested in the moral ramifications of a threesome and for just as long I have been unable to come to any firm judgement on the issue. Frankly, as I sit down to write this, I have no idea if a threesome is moral or not; which is not really…
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Necessary v. Sufficient Conditions
by Jason Stotts The Case of Morrell v. Stotts At Philosophy Department Senior Symposium a question was raised in which Matt Morrell and I took polemical sides – the question was on the nature of necessary conditions and the nature of sufficient conditions. This article will chronicle the debate point by point with Matt and…