Research Methodology — Are Red or Blue States Better?
Introduction Is conservative ideology better or worse than liberal ideology? That’s a tough question! But more or less, it’s what this study is proposing to answer. Obviously, we have to […]
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How Correlation Does and Doesn’t Imply Causation
In my last article I discussed the popular rule “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” often associated with the argument from ignorance. However, this popular mantra, and almost every […]
Soul Talk: My Experience Researching & Teaching on Souls at Rutgers University
By Dan Ogilvie, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University A Sketch of the Present Debate A front page article in the August 26, 2013, edition of the New York Times reports […]
A Global Historical Survey: Does Accepting Homosexuality Lead to Civilizational Ruin?
A while ago I had a discussion with some friends about homosexuality and morality. Eventually I made the comment: Well it doesn’t directly affect you. If you didn’t know it […]
An Ideological Turing Test, or How to Responsibly Think about Religion & Politics
Ideal Investigations; Competing Explanations How do we ‘go about’ learning? Well one of the ways we can answer this is relatively straightforward. There are tons of methods we can use. […]
Applied Sentience 