localdeity

I see people make statements of the form, "In my experience with people I encounter, X is correlated with ...". The problem is, there's an excellent chance that the people they deal with are very unrepresentative of the population they want to generalize about, and I rarely see them show...

(Epistemic status: non-expert who's spent about 5 minutes looking into the subject) So, we have more wildfires this year in California, which are once again screwing up the local air quality. As I understand it, there's lots of dry wood accumulating; the fires are bound to happen eventually, and if...