William M. Briggs

Were There Really That Many Victims Of French Pervert Priests?

Heard the news about priests abusing kids? Here's what experts (their word) say about "the Catholic sex-abuse stories emerging": Many point to peculiarities of the Catholic Church (its celibacy rules…

Statistics

Social Pressure To Be Vaxxed Can Be Overwhelming– Coronavirus Update C

It can't be C. Can it? I must have miscounted somewhere. I'm too lazy to check where. Either way, it's too damn many. EXPERIMENT YOU CAN TRY AT HOME The…

Statistics

As Predicted, Vexxine Efficacy Shrinks Once Out Of The Hands Of Pharmaceuticals

Part The First: Observations How good is the Pfizer vex in practice? Ask them---or any Expert or ruler---and they will say...well, let's not ask them what they would say. It…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About The Incarnation V

Previous post. Week 5 refuting arguments claiming Jesus was not the Word Incarnated. We meet Arius at last. ON THE ERROR OF ARIUS AND APOLLINARIS ABOUT THE SOUL OF CHRIS…

Philosophy Statistics

More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The Only Sane Way To Do Statistics

Here it is, friends, the one complete universal simple function, the only function you will ever need to fit any---I said any---dataset x. And all it takes is one---I said…

Statistics

The New CDC Masks Mandate Study Is Not Good

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1442965194150457344 How would you check if mask mandates worked in schools? I can think of only one way. Contrast kids in schools with mandates and in those without. Get them…

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Spartacus Speaks; Australian Head Knocking; MI Bright Spot; Causes of Death; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIX

Last week, there was some good news. This week, it's mostly bad. I AM SPARTACUS I am not the Spartacus, but I am Spartacus. If you have seen the movie,…

Culture

Vaccine “Hesitancy” Is Caused By Hersterics, Tyrants & Midwits

We're going to suppose, you and I dear reader, for the duration of this post, that the mRNA coronadoom vaccines work, just as hersterics, tyrants, and midwits say. By work…

john b() on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 25, 2024
Douglas Adams had been laughing at physicists and "Quantum Computing" two years before Yuri Manin and Richard Feynman thought it…
Phileas_Frogg on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 25, 2024
@Uncle Mike Stop bitching. RFK is a flat improvement because of his stance on vaccines alone. His skepticism towards the…
BadThinker on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 24, 2024
And of course Health now also means "medically assisted dying" for those deemed unfit or sad or too white.
Uncle Mike on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 23, 2024
I wish to be clear. I don't need RFKJ or anybody else telling me what I may or may not…
spaceranger on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 23, 2024
I think it was Twain who said that if you don't maintain at least a few bad habits to get…

William M. Briggs

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

Class 29: Nothing Has A Distribution

Women Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science

Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way?

Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige

Class 28: Randomization Redux (Randomization Does Nothing)

If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?

What The Covid Panic Did To Science

We Win

See You On The Other Side

Class 27: Probability Is In Your Mind, Not Things

How Tim Walz Did Not Know Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say

Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Reviewed

The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly

The Science Of Transitioning Children

Class 26: Randomization Does Nothing

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

Were There Really That Many Victims Of French Pervert Priests?

Social Pressure To Be Vaxxed Can Be Overwhelming– Coronavirus Update C

As Predicted, Vexxine Efficacy Shrinks Once Out Of The Hands Of Pharmaceuticals

Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About The Incarnation V

More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The Only Sane Way To Do Statistics

The New CDC Masks Mandate Study Is Not Good

Spartacus Speaks; Australian Head Knocking; MI Bright Spot; Causes of Death; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIX

Vaccine “Hesitancy” Is Caused By Hersterics, Tyrants & Midwits

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification