Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
An Israeli Air Force instructor told Daniel Kahneman that praise made pilots fly worse and criticism made them fly better. He wasn't lying. He was watching regression to the mean. The same trick haunts step-out drill programs and quarterly reviews alike: it...
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In 1973 the University of California at Berkeley appeared to be discriminating against women. The aggregate admissions rate was 44 percent for men and 35 percent for women,...
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Junior explorers often live and die by the press release. So when one of these companies announces a drill result or a financing, does the stock actually move,...
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The county with the highest cancer rate in America is rural. So is the county with the lowest. Both extremes come from the same mechanism, and it isn't...
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Every whole-rock analysis sums to 100%. That single fact, which feels like trivial bookkeeping, breaks every Pearson correlation you ever computed on raw oxide percentages. The closure problem...
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