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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.
Category: Sports
Dak at Fire Joe Morgan asks: I've been watching a fair amount of SportsCenter / BBTN today, and every two minutes someone mentions that there are "seven teams going for a sweep in an interleague series!", as if this is...
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Category: Statistics
Are sportswriters full of it? Was it really unlikely that the worst team got stuck with the fourth pick? What about that good team getting lucky and winning the lottery?
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Category: Statistics
And how does it affect the coverage of science in the mainstream media?
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Category: Population Genetics
John Hawks thinks my disc flipping example is related to popgen.
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Category: Sports
What if the probability heads differs between two discs or coins?
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Category: Statistics
On flipping discs before a game of ultimate.
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Category: Science Education
What math courses should an undergraduate biology major take?
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Category: Statistics
y/n versus (y+1)/(n+2)
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Category: Genomics
How much variation in genome size do we see in birds?
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Category: Statistics
A step by step guide to finding statistically significant results.
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