William M. Briggs

This class is a must watch for all; or at least a must read. I've been showing you how badly cause is misidentified in sciences which use statistics. Today a…

I've told you innumerable times that scientists are good at finding evidence which supports their fancies, and just as lousy, or lousier because of their egos, than others when finding…

Everything, Science says, will kill you or ill you. Or cure you. Last week I gave readers homework to go to scholar.google.com and type in "X 'reduces' risk" (or 'increases')…

Reminder: The Class will now run at the end of the week. Here is a passage from The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth, written in the mid 1950s. A story…

Apologies: I meant to have this run on Thursday, but a huge burst of snowy spring came through and knocked out power all yesterday morning. First: Almost all models are…

This is Part II of The Limitations Of AI. See Part I: Predictive Ability. Forgive me this banality, but reminders of the obvious can bring clarity: AI runs on computers.…

I am moving the Class, which is rather specialized, to the end of the week. Credentialists are having a fit over the new regime whacking grant overhead and making other…

I am moving the Class, which is rather specialized, to the end of the week. Yesterday the New York Times, the written order-of-the-day for the old school left, put out…