William M. Briggs

Nothing Is Distributed: So-Called Random Variables Do Not Follow Distributions

People say "random" variables "behave" in a certain way as if they have a life of their own. To behave is to act, to be caused, to react. This is…

Fun

Thanks, Fellow Veterans

It was in the first night of my military service that I learned cockroaches could fly. I am from the Northwoods where cockroaches are light on the ground, so it…

Culture Philosophy

Pregnant, And No Civil Rights?

Now there's nothing more wearisome than a discussion of "rights"; and having one on a Monday may be unforgivable. But I beg the reader's indulgence as last Friday's New York…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not In A Genus

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. We know…

Philosophy Statistics

BBC: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? BBC: Because Something

Opens the BBC's campaign: Some physicists think they can explain why the universe first formed. If they are right, our entire cosmos may have sprung out of nothing at all.…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

An Introduction To Uncertainty: Probability, Statistics, and Modeling of All Kinds

This is a teaser, the first part of a 3,200-word narrative outline for the book that I've started to shop around. The current title is in the headline. Regular readers…

Statistics

Sex With 21 (Not 20) Women Lowers Risk Of Prostate Cancer. It’s Science!

Today's headline was modified from the Telegraph, one of the least lurid and sensationalistic of those generated by the peer-reviewed paper "Sexual partners, sexually transmitted infections, and prostate cancer risk"…

Philosophy Statistics

On Nate Silver’s Predictions: Which Side Of The Probability Equation Are We On?

When I checked FiveThirtyEight.com's Senate prediction, it said "Republicans have a 72.3% chance of winning a majority." There were also words that the "probability that each party will win control…

Johnno on Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4September 6, 2024
We will only reach Equality when all men are bald! The women too. “Chastisements”, as in “divine chastisement” only works…
hudbwu on Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4September 6, 2024
> shock people back to their senses This is a phantasy. While it might work in some special circumstances, like…
dana on Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4September 6, 2024
When I was studying for a B.Ed. in 1968-69 Dalhousie, a lecturer said: There is nothing so unequal as the…
kmann on Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4September 5, 2024
Equality is not the ultimate goal, righteousness is. That is - right relationship with God and with man. ... For…
Paul Murphy on Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4September 5, 2024
In more cynical moments, I sort of maintain that a nuke lobbed at Tel Aviv that misses By just enough…

William M. Briggs

Should Government Proscribe Equality? The Works Of David Stove 4

Coincidence: What Do George Washington & Three Red Banners Have To Do With Each Other?

Nice Flag, Neighbor!

Quelling Violence In Terror States! The Return Of Dickman

The Farcical Evangelical ‘Betrayal’ Argument Against Trump

Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3

Killing A Paradox: The Two Envelopes

Bayesian Yacht Sinks; Connected Man Run Over By Car: A Working Coincidence

Lawyers Get Excited Suing Over “Climate Change”

Die Sweetly: The Strange Paradoxes Of The Cult Of Safety First!

Class 18: Probability Is Not Propensity Or Physical

Academic: Genetically Engineer Shorter People To Battle “Climate Change”

A Reason To Vote For Trump: He Makes Them Crazy

The Weak British Regime’s Over- Under-Reaction

Class 17: Random Means Unpredictable – To You!

Not Reporter, Propagandist. Not News, Propaganda

Ruler Announces Biggest Heist In History

Why Do Our Rulers Hate Us?

Class 16: Binomial Sins!

Determinism Addendum

Limitations Of Biological Determinism: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification