William M. Briggs

Who Do You Trust More: A Sturgis Biker or An Academic Economist Waving His Wee P-value Around?

The only thing right about that new Sturgis Biker paper everybody is talking about is the opening quotation from somebody calling himself Smash Mouth (asterisks original): "Now we're all here…

Statistics

Coronavirus Update XXX: Our Governments Have Grown Weary Of Us

No End In Sight Last week the big news was the juicing of death counts, which came as no surprise to us. What might have been missed was the section…

Fun

Onion Headline Writers Insist: Laugh At Us! We’re Still Funny!

Here's a headline from CNN: "Trump Vigorously Defends Kenosha Shooter As Racist White Supremacist." The story starts: WASHINGTON---Taking a firm stand ahead of his visit to the Wisconsin, President Donald…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Divine Assistance For Higher Reasoning Is Necessary

Previous post. Key quote: Man "is hindered by the weakness of his reason, which is easily drawn into error by which he is cut off from the right way of…

Statistics

Fight Of The Century! Ethan “The Scidolator” Siegel vs. Sam “Reality Boy” Bowman

In the near corner, we have Ethan "The Scidolator" Siegel, a record of 0-32, 132 pounds (I'm guessing), southpaw with a slight case of carpal tunnel syndrome, wearing red and…

Culture

Looting As Reparations Is A Good Idea

Even though riots, looting, pillaging, murder and mayhem and treason are illegal, immoral, and unethical, and that putting them down through the use of violence is historically validated, legal, moral,…

Book review

Physics & Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality by Wolfgang Smith Reviewed

Top Down One of the proofs of God's existence given to us by our good saint Thomas Aquinas is the argument from essential causal chains. (We have met this many…

Culture

Open Fire

The title of today's essay is the answer to the pressing question, "What would you do were you Trump?" https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1300520249196978176 Of course, the act of putting down the rabid mob…

Uncle Mike on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Dear Joy, Goodness always wins in the end. Or the End. All powerful is not a speculation. Keep the faith.…
Paul Murphy on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
It is an odd truth that whenever libs do stupid stuff they turn out to be relying on the other…
Cary Cotterman on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
It's not just Mika and Rachel. Joy Reid has also been flipping her wig. May their ratings plummet into the…
Joy on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Dear Uncle Mike, regarding the ICBM's, I'm thinking Russia will show restraint until January. If Putin is cornered, things will…
Uncle Mike on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Great pic. Thank you, Brother.

William M. Briggs

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

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