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stewgreen

There are plenty of Edward Lucas types out there keen to get their sweaty palms on the levers of power - and they usually manage to work in exemptions for themselves ....

I'd be very surprised indeed if insurance companies exposed their true actuarial metrics - shocked even :-)

Feb 9, 2018 at 10:04 PM | Registered Commentertomo

@Tomo I scanned the @edwardlucas in @thetimes
and thought nutter
The whole point of of internet is anonymity ..that way the small boy can call out the Emperor's Suitmakers
and gays in Iran can express themselves etc.
...............................

You can't have a MO premium not matter how many previous Mo's have committed crimes.
The expert says they have no name filtering.
The tool just compares if the name appears on electoral rolll, previous insurance policies, previous cars etc.

I think the claim there is a Mo premium is based on some kind of Confirmation Bias.

Feb 9, 2018 at 9:49 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Whats up with Media Lens
A Pilger supported site, which says the media serves vested interest
OK that sounds right
but when it comes to Climate Change they say stuff like "Excellent stuff from Michael Mann"
The BBC’s Climate Denialism: Coverage Of Hurricane Harvey And The South Asian Floods
Again the headline is kinda True, the BBC massively hyped Harvey compared to South Asia
but see what they say about Mann

Feb 9, 2018 at 9:38 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

The Climate Museum

opens in Manhatten

I haven't had a look yet (I suspect a mouth full of food wouldn't be wise)

Fill yer boots

Pcar - 7:25pm
Insurance company actuaries now use "big data" - which makes it quite trivial for the user to run cross correlations ad infinitum. I refuse to use the term AI to describe automated / algorithmic pattern searches which are now a thing - and it seems likely that these are also deployed to identify risk and hence derive premiums. Other times they simply take the piss. I'd bet that some amusing correlations have been spat out by the code.

Feb 9, 2018 at 8:46 PM | Registered Commentertomo

@EM

tsk... you wag you - you know there are - they don't even have to be scientific contrarians - but they have to be careful otherwise the BBC will prerecord and edit as they usually do. What do you make of Gavin Schmidt running away from Roy Spencer?

As far as King is concerned - since he is as usual pompously opining on stuff well outside his personal specialty - contrasting him with somebody like say Patrick Moore might lead to some interesting (and hopefully frank) exchanges ? I'd quite like to see/hear Roger Harrabin vs. Mark Steyn - equally matched?

If I recall correctly several years back David King got a humiliating pasting over mis-statements in Russia (from Russian subject specialists) when he was "climate ambassador" or somesuch? He wouldn't show to a debate - I'd put a pile of money on that - he's far too grand.

I take it you are unfamiliar Jordan Peterson's recent appearance on CH4 news? (C4 News / current events crew will now no doubt be scanning their interviewees with considerably more care)

ps Care to comment on the Peter Ridd business downunder?

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:33 PM | Registered Commentertomo

@stewgreen, Feb 9, 2018 at 12:25 PM

R4 now : Former Chief Scientists talking about diesel recommendations

- "ethnic names pay more for motor insurance"

Tomo is correct, indicators of higher probability of insurance fraud.

I'd imagine Wayne and Chardonay receive higher quotes than Matthew and Rebecca

Underwriters correctly doing their job.

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:25 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

@golf charlie, Feb 8, 2018 at 7:56 PM

RE:
Mr Soros is no stranger to controversy.

He is widely known as the man who broke the pound, after helping force sterling out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism in 1992

Amusing how the Left reverses their like/hate

1992
Soros was an evil capitalist for profiting from UK's ERM debacle
Russia / Fed. of Russian States / Soviet Union was good

2010 Both reversed: Soros = Good; Russia = Evil

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:20 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

Tomo

"an informed and articulate contrarian"

Is there such an animal?

The BBC struggled to find any professional scientists to fit the bill, and so did Parliamentary committees. They usually ended up interviewing politicians like Lord Lawson or accountants like Andrew Montford.

Feb 9, 2018 at 6:08 PM | Unregistered CommenterEntropic man

Eiffel Tower iced up.

Coldest Winter Olympics ever.

Al Gore can't be at both venues, without burning a lot of Jet Fuel.

Feb 9, 2018 at 2:56 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

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