William M. Briggs

How To Resolve All Probability Paradoxes: Apples In Sack Example

Via Alexander Bogomolny?: At 1 minute to midnight 10 apples fall into a sack. The same happens at half a minute to midnight, then at a quarter minute to midnight,…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Born Knowing

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Before you…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update IX

Item University looks to add diversity rating to faculty evals Ball State University's Faculty Council plans to allow students to rate the inclusiveness of classroom environments on end-of-semester evaluations... While…

Culture Statistics

Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part II

Read Part I first. On the subject of Islamic violence (see the picture leading the article), Pew says: While overall public views have shifted only modestly, the partisan gap on…

Culture Statistics

Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part I

Pew has a survey out which measures, sort of, our increasing political and cultural apartness (a.k.a. apartheid). The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger…

Culture

More On SJWs & STEM

Had to leave quite a bit out of last week's article SJWs Coming for Mathematics. The impetus for that column was an ad for math education professors who were first…

Culture Statistics

The Most Depressing (Government) Graph

Stream: The Most Depressing (Government) Graph There is no one picture that can capture the inexorable rise and reach of Leviathan, but if you had to pick just one, the…

Statistics

How Suspicious Is It To Win The Lottery Multiple Times?

So this Pennsylvanian named Nadine Vukovich "a Mechanicsburg veterinarian, has claimed 209 scratch tickets, each worth $600 or more, over 12 years. Collectively she's won about $350,000." This streak caused…

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.

William M. Briggs

The Death Of DIE—In University Science

Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism

I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I Need

Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 Minutes

More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t Enough

Surgeon General Demands Label War Against Wine

Class 34: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology III

England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”

Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)

Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”

Class 33: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology II

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Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

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Class 32: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology I (All Should Read)

The Death Of DIE—In University Science

Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism

How To Resolve All Probability Paradoxes: Apples In Sack Example

Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Born Knowing

Insanity & Doom Update IX

Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part II

Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part I

More On SJWs & STEM

The Most Depressing (Government) Graph

How Suspicious Is It To Win The Lottery Multiple Times?

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