Statistics – Page 135 – William M. Briggs

Computers Can Find Future Criminals? Why, Computers Can Do Anything!

There is a belief---a persistent and beguiling, yet false belief---that a formula exists that can predict anything. This formula will differ, it is thought, by the thing predicted, and it…

Philosophy Statistics

Uncertainty (#1 New Release in Statistics) Book Page — Here Are The Details. Update!

This isn't the book page. This is. Or you can buy it here. The page is permanently located at the menu bar at the top of the page, at the…

Culture Statistics

Stream: Homicide Rates, Black vs. White, Sex, Guns & Government

Today's post is at The Stream: The Murder Rate has Plunged Since 1990...But Big Gov Knows How to Turn That Around. Go there for the narration and data explanation. Here's…

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Publishing & Equality Are Killing Science

Equality kills everything it touches, eventually. So much is well known. It is also realized by regular readers that requiring academics to publish or perish causes them to perish intellectually.…

Book review Statistics

Uncertainty: Foreword by Steven Goldberg

Steve Goldberg was president of the sociology department at City College of New York (CCNY) from 1988 until his retirement (back when they knew how to do sociology). He is…

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Stream: Government Lab Has Been Faking Data for Years

Today's post (more a news report) is at The Stream: Government Lab Has Been Faking Data for Years. A person or persons at the same US Geological Survey Lab in…

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Shocking New Research: Hunger Motivates Eating

Ladies and gentlemen, the opening line of the peer-reviewed paper "Hunger promotes acquisition of nonfood objects" appearing in the (once) venerable organ Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, by…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

The Great Day Is Here! Uncertainty Meets The World

The Great Day---the Day yearned for by all humanity, or at least weakly anticipated by you, Dear Reader---has arrived! Let the trumpet sound and celebration begin! The release of Uncertainty:…

Uncle Mike on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 23, 2025
Yay. Old white hetero conservative Christian men rejoice! All three of us.
Cary Cotterman on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 23, 2025
In much the same way "global warming" became "climate change", "affirmative action" became "DEI" and just kept going. They'll just…
KGB on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 23, 2025
A single commercial is not enough. I want entire networks overtly and publicly dedicated to providing white-only entertainment, much as…
The Death Of DIE—In University Science – William M. Briggs on NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!January 23, 2025
[…] money often went to DIE, as we discussed many times over the years. We saw recently (blog/Substack) a good…
Johnno on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The hersteric is worried about the gains-of-function-science where the more science they can inject into your life, the more money…