Class 70: Most Claims Of "Controlled For" Are Wrong: The Right Way

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Claims of control are almost always false or misleading. "Controlling for" sex or age or anything in probability models is not true control. It's just adding things to models. Vast over-certainty is generated here.

Written lecture: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/

Jaynes's book:
http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/GaussianModel/
JaynesProbabilityTheory.pdf

Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

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