William M. Briggs

I beg your indulgence, dear reader. Please stay with me for these introductory paragraphs. I want to teach you how to read these papers so that you are well equipped…

We have a decision to make, you and I, dear reader. Is the peer-reviewed paper detailed below yet another asinine ridiculous dreary entry in the burgeoning anti-science of "climate change",…

I was delighted to learn, via Hans Schantz's Podcast: Sir Francis Bacon - Father of Scientism?, of the paper "The New Universal Church" by the late French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck.…

Because of events, I have postponed this week's Class until next Thursday. Many on the Right, very understandably, are calling for violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder.…

Twice last week, that we heard of anyway, two different blacks murdered two different white women. (And of course many others.) The one on the left you know, if you…

As yet another in a long (and growing) line of hilarious jokes, I posted on Twitter a short video of the changing location of the magnetic north pole, from the…

Oh no! What are we to make of this dire prediction of plummeting global temperatures? Let's ask world-wide authority (self-awarded) William M Briggs, Statistician to the Stars! as he takes…

Many think confidence intervals are an improvement over P-values. Not really, no. There is no one alive, or dead, who interprets a confidence interval as theory demands. All (as in…