Statistics – Page 175 – William M. Briggs

Government Per Capita Spending: Up, Up, And Away! Or, Happy Tax Day!

Here it is, folks. Right from WhiteHouse.gov. The amount of Federal Government spending per capita from 1901 to the present and projected out to 2019. Population projections were taken from…

Philosophy Statistics

The Hot Hand: Statistical Fluke Or Genuine Article?

I'll save you hunting through the text. It's a real thing. If you want to know why, read on. If not, you just tell 'em W.M. Briggs sez so, which…

Statistics

Truth: Logic of Probability and Statistics

Here, as promised, is rough, incomplete, outline-only, not-yet-finished, gist-only version of Chapter 1, Truth, for the book tentatively titled The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (I'm also toying with The…

Philosophy Statistics

The Somebody-Might-Get-Hurt! Fallacy

Word is our beneficent government, which loves us and would not see us fall into harm, is working on a design for a system of chains to anchor both citizens…

Culture Statistics

Boys’ Toys V. Girls’ Toys: Researchers Still Trying To Prove They’re The Same

Last Thursday I was at the warthog park at the butt end of 57th street on the East river, reading and enjoying the rare sunshine. Nannies and moms (mostly nannies)…

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The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (Book. Sort Of.)

I have decided to let you, dear reader, help me finish my book, which I have tentatively entitled The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics. This is about the seventeenth version…

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My Genes Made Me Vote For Obama: Predisposed Reviewed

Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith, and John Alford. If a conservative is a person who clings to what is, who resists…

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Another Fool Calls For My Arrest: Or, Adam Weinstein Slips A Nut

Another eek-screeching scrawny-brained bug-witted pretty-boy addled cancerous ferret has called for my arrest. My crime? Sanity. Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein), writing at a place with the puerile name of "Gawker"---come to…

Milton Hathaway on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 25, 2025
The "I don't want immigrants" argument has one big thing going for it - brevity. In our sound-bitey world, that's…
Johnno on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 24, 2025
JH, Briggs only said, "That's all the argument I need." As in, his statement/argument is rhetorical. Yet, you've jumped to…
McChuck on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 24, 2025
DEI must die!
John Pate on I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I NeedJanuary 24, 2025
There's no way I can judge this objectively. I am a dyed in the wool misanthropist and much as I…
Uncle Mike on The Death Of DIE—In University ScienceJanuary 23, 2025
Yay. Old white hetero conservative Christian men rejoice! All three of us.