unbiased observer Concepts

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson · 1 Nov 2006

4, a sensible ﬁrst step is data reduction. This reduces the large True & Most Likely Observed Value Probability Distribution Of Observed Values FIGURE 6.6 Unbiased observations. Most Likely Observed Value True Value FIGURE 6.7 Observations with systematic error. Probability Distribution Of Observed Values 274 METHODOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, STATISTICAL FOUNDATIONS set

Big Bang

by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 2004 · 492pp · 149,259 words

proved right. The best they can do is to survive.’ But the Steady State model and its Quasi-Steady State reincarnation were barely surviving. Any unbiased observer could see that they were on the brink of extinction, whereas the Big Bang model was not only surviving, but thriving. The universe simply made

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

by Gary Taubes · 25 Sep 2007 · 936pp · 252,313 words

. MARK NATHAN COHEN, Health and the Rise of Civilization, 1989 CRITICAL TO THE SUCCESS OF any scientific enterprise is the ability to make accurate and unbiased observations. “To have our first idea of things, we must see those things,” is how Claude Bernard explained this in 1865; “to have an idea about

The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

by Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig · 5 Jan 2016 · 377pp · 110,427 words

where it distracts them from working on” more practical projects. It would be only fair here to point out that I am not exactly an unbiased observer. For one thing, Sean, like just about everyone else I cite in the book, is a friend. We met through working on these things together

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words

political attitudes. I have a unique vantage point as someone who passes back and forth between these worlds. To be clear, I am not an unbiased observer. People in the River are—for better or worse—my kind of people. Conversely, I’ve never quite taken to the Village, and I’ve

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words

writing that it’s not a stretch of the imagination to conclude that they are driven by ideology as much as they are induced by unbiased observation. “Twentieth-century Marxism”, he writes in The Blank Slate, “was part of a larger intellectual current that has been called Authoritarian High Modernism: the conceit

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn Leszcz · 1 Jan 1967

inapplicable. From the group therapists we obtain a variegated and internally inconsistent inventory of therapeutic factors (see chapter 4). Therapists, by no means disinterested or unbiased observers, have invested considerable time and energy in mastering a certain therapeutic approach. Their answers will be determined largely by their particular school of conviction. Even

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

by Michael Huemer · 29 Oct 2012 · 577pp · 149,554 words

for growing too much wheat, the federal government was simply exercising its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. It is hard to believe that any unbiased observer competent in the English language would read the phrase ‘regulate commerce [ ... ] among the several states’ in this way. Here is the unofficial but more truthful

Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery

by Ira Rutkow · 8 Mar 2022 · 509pp · 142,456 words

tenets of Egyptian surgery, its independence from the mystical and its rationality of action, fell silent. But the Greek emphasis on fair-minded inspection and unbiased observation in gathering medical knowledge, along with objectivity and practicality in the practice of surgery, would provide the light that continued to move the craft forward

Live and Let Spy: BRIXMIS - the Last Cold War Mission

by Steve Gibson · 2 Mar 2012 · 377pp · 121,996 words

the Warsaw Pact countries as outlined in the 1979 Stockholm agreement on Cooperation and Disarmament in Europe. A new Brixmis role became the independent and unbiased observation of Soviet troop withdrawals as well as the reorganisation of both NVA and Soviet orbats. While withdrawals commenced in January 1990, watched around the clock