William M. Briggs

Time (sigh) for yet another example of the scrofulous, not to say ubiquitous, Epidemiologist Fallacy. This is peer-reviewed-paper generating technique of declaring X CAUSES Y, but where X is never…

How do you like my New & Improved title style? Is it click-baity (or is it baitey) enough? I was also thinking of Attack From Space Nearly Downs Aircraft. The…

The scheduler has been busted, and is not sending emails out on time. I only just now noticed this post. My apologies. Cover your ears, ladies. I'm about to let…

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…

ANNOUNCEMENT: I am starting a new degree in Feminist Logic & Epistemology. Its one and only course will consist in the student in all public (i.e. outside-the-home) discourse beginning each…

I want to quote from my late friend Steven Goldberg's (he went to his judgement in 2022) book When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe is…

Once again, for the statistically accurate umpteenth time, I saw some of our guys lamenting, cursing, hand-wringing, shouting and delivering various clever imprecations over yet another Hollywood abomination. This time…