Why do cops, and home and shop owners, empty their guns when shooting at bad guys? Another way to ask this is our title: How Many Times Must You Shoot To Be […]
A Doctor Reveals His Wee P
You go into the doc’s office. He’s not looking happy. He’s holding your chart. “Mr Smith, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.” Give it to me straight, doc. I […]
The Simple Math That Proves Our Worship Of Victims Must Cause Our Doom
I did a poor job explaining that The Only Way To Avoid Illegal Discrimination Is To Illegally Discriminate. I said: I won’t show the math, but it should be easy to see […]
Questions On Statistical Practice Answered
Forgive me my friends, because of reasons I am terribly far behind on everything. Regular posting to resume soon. While back in a post, I was ranting about something like p-values, or […]
Reader Question: Probability is not real in the sense that real life things are real
Anon writes: Mr. Briggs, I am trying to understand the statement in the title. It [probability] is a measure of uncertainty. It is a measure of what we know or do not […]
Dickman Cries “Rape!”: On The Bizarre New Rape-Pregnancy Paper
You and I, dear reader, have looked at a lot of bad science over the years. Some science was bad because of the stank of woke, some because of fractured philosophy, some […]
Bayes Theorem and Coronavirus: The Chance You Have It & The Chance You Die
I didn’t have a chance to put this in yesterday’s update, but I’ve been asked to do it. It’s a classic in every 101 biostat textbook to do Bayes theorem in the […]
I Never Received About 15% Of Your Emails
I first describe a bug at the blog, a blog bug, and then show us a few emails we missed. WordPress Bug & Emails I was cleaning up the blog on a […]
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