William M. Briggs

Nature Advocates Using Children To Propagandize Parents

Nature magazine has published the article "Ignorant children should be used to propagandize their more knowledgeable parents." I might have got the title wrong (click link for actual), but it's…

Culture

E. Michael Jones vs. Michael L. Brown: Can We Speak of “The Catholics” or “The Jews”?

The readings for Sunday, 12 May (Acts 13:14, 43-52): Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Uses Secondary Causes

Previous post. Angels and demons are secondary causes, too. THAT THE EXECUTION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE IS ACCOMPLISHED BY MEANS OF SECONDARY CAUSES 1 We should attend to the fact that…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Out-Of-Control Matriarchy Edition

Item I have it on good report a high school has eliminated its year-end speech by the Valedictorian and substituted one by the "most popular student". (I am not naming…

Culture

Traditional Christianity All But Kaput In Western Europe, And Even USA

Couple of new surveys. One from Pew shows that only about one out of five Europeans attend services "monthly or more". Now this is very crude, usable only with caution,…

Culture

On Islam, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

A billion words have been written since Islam awoke from her 300-year slumber in 1983. Almost all of those words have sought to explain away the actions of 'radical' Islam.…

Class Statistics

Using P-Values To Diagnose “Trends” Is Invalid

Look at the picture, which is real data, but disguised to obscure its source. It is a physical measurement taken monthly by a recognized authority. The measurements are thought to…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…

Briggs on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
Spetzer, All good points. I go into many of them later in the chapter.
spetzer86 on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
If the receiver and sender independently wrote down the guess / card with no verbal communication, it might be better.…
JH on Class 56: The Best Model!June 29, 2025
How can you make predictions in the big data era without using a model? Trust your gut.
Jonas P. Kay on Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part IJune 28, 2025
I answer all by saying you cannot get something from nothing. There is beauty in its simplicity and it is…
Johnno on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 27, 2025
So what's the betting pool on the odds about when and in which country will be the first to perform…

William M. Briggs

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification

England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women

On The Probability Of God

Class 55: Models Vs Reality

AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output

The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition

The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club Example

Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters

Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores

AI & The Dilemma Of Technology

What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?

Class 53: Laplace Was Right!

Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering Out

Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best

Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass Shooting

Class 52: The Origin Of Parameters

IQ Is Not Intelligence

What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?

Class 51: Bayes Is Only A Formula

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

Nature Advocates Using Children To Propagandize Parents

E. Michael Jones vs. Michael L. Brown: Can We Speak of “The Catholics” or “The Jews”?

Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Uses Secondary Causes

The Week In Doom — Out-Of-Control Matriarchy Edition

Traditional Christianity All But Kaput In Western Europe, And Even USA

On Islam, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Using P-Values To Diagnose “Trends” Is Invalid

The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

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