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Is Governmental Data Trustworthy?

Written by Jeffrey A. Tucker

Economists love data. It’s their bread and butter for how they make judgments about economic health. It’s never been perfect. But it’s what they have and there has been a general sense that the professionals behind the data are doing the best they can.

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The Fallacy Of Bell Curves

Written by Herb Rose

The distribution of kinetic energy in a media is said to be in the form of a bell curve where the molecules have a range of kinetic energy with a peak at the temperature and gradually changing deviations around the peak. This is not the case.

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