Statistics – Page 176 – William M. Briggs

Pick Your Lotto Numbers With a Greater Chance to Win? Paper From Brazil

The Blaze ran a story with headline "Mathematician Thinks There's a Way to Pick Your Lotto Numbers With a Greater Chance to Win". Turns out Renato Gianella thinks he's discovered…

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Global Warming Hanger-On Says Ends Justify The Means

A question from the new SAT in Reading Comprehension was leaked: "'The students rushed the platform to prevent the speaker from speaking.' Were these students, (A) progressives, or (B) conservatives?"…

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The One-True-Religion Fallacy. (It’s Not What You Think)

At the end of the eponymous movie, the slave army led by gladiator-cum-general Spartacus (Kirk Dougla) lies defeated before the creator of the First Triumvirate, General Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence…

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It’s Time To Lynch Those Who Deny Climate Skepticism

Let us agree with the enlightened that the world is imperfect and ought not to be. The cause of imperfection is human error which ought to be eradicated with extreme…

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It Was Right To Dumb Down The SAT

It's difficult to design a test such that all those taking it do not all do well nor all do poorly. For instance, suppose the SAT were to consist of…

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The Probability Of A Bottle Broken Into N Pieces When Struck By A Hammer

Logic is the study of relationships between propositions, and probability, which is the same, is thus the completion of logic to instances where the relationships are not certain. From this…

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Betting Begins On Next Official “Orientation” Letter

I started this before I learned of Facebook's 50+ "gender" identities. But because our government will surely involve itself, what is below still has force. What will be the next…

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The Epistemology Of Miracles: Fulton J. Sheen Edition, Part II

Read Part I. We haven't made use of our time machine in Jesus's case. So I ask you, is it possible that if we go far enough into the future,…

Uncle Mike on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
What's the probability of Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, aka RuBisCo, arising by chance from the Primordial Goo? RuBisCo is the enzyme that…
Jim Fedako on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Sorry, Briggs. I’ve watched enough new TV shows and movies, plus read enough social media posts, to know there are…
Johnno on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
But a finite number of monkeys voting an infinite amount of times will eventually produce utopia, right?
Robert Sides on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 15, 2025
1. After more State fascism, a European nation will face a largely populist overthrow after a Solidarity (Polish) sized upheaval.…
Cary Cotterman on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Insider info says a roomful of chimps write Kamala Harris's public utterances. All the superhero movie scripts of the past…