William M. Briggs

Trenberth Is Wrong About Global Warming: The PDO Is An Effect, Not A Cause

Kevin "Travesty" Trenberth had a peer-reviewed article in Science entitled, "Has there been a hiatus? Internal climate variability masks climate-warming trends." First, the word "hiatus" is wrong. Using it assumes…

Culture

Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren’t “Bisexual”

Today's post is at the Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren't "Bisexual". A survey by YouGov in Great Britain recently announced that "1 in 2 young people say they…

Statistics

Is Young Fatherhood Causally Related To Midlife Mortality? Wee P-values Say Yes!

The title of today's post is culled from the peer-reviewed paper "Is young fatherhood causally related to midlife mortality? A sibling fixed-effect study in Finland" by Elina Einiö and two…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows Infinite Things

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. . Chapter…

Culture

The Banality of Evil Redux: Do Planned Parenthood Officials Sin? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Reposted from Bob Kurland's site. The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating…

Fun Statistics

Briggs Is Available To Speak. Update

You've seen the videos...You've read the papers...You know the blog...Now hire the man! For a limited time only---All men are mortal, Briggs is a man, etc.---W. M. Briggs is available…

Statistics

Having A Kid Worse Than Divorce Or Death? Wee P-values Say Yes

When I first ascend to Emperor, after throwing into the dungeon any within earshot who cannot speak a full sentence without using 'like', my first act will be to create…

Statistics

The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill. New Paper

New paper up at Arxiv, which is a sort of précis to some key chapters in my book most relevant to probability and statistical modeling. Abstract: There is a third…

hudbwu on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 14, 2026
@Rudolph Harrier: it's weird that you mention D&D in relation to LLMs. In my experience, nothing shows the utter impotence…
hudbwu on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 14, 2026
A moment of silence for people who still test "AI" tools, so we who don't use them could know what…
hudbwu on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 14, 2026
And then people wonder why USA gets it's butt kicked in war.
Cloudbuster on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 14, 2026
Cary Cotterman: "Her ambition, hilariously, was to become a civil rights lawyer." Pretty good odds she succeeded and is busily…
Myster Mars on Why British & EU Rulers Are Juicing War With RussiaJuly 14, 2026
In Mike Pompeo's defense, we need only look at Russia’s relentless crackdown on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Lenin first…

William M. Briggs

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

SOON

The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove

Marbles!

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

Trenberth Is Wrong About Global Warming: The PDO Is An Effect, Not A Cause

Stream: No, Half of British Youths Aren’t “Bisexual”

Is Young Fatherhood Causally Related To Midlife Mortality? Wee P-values Say Yes!

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Knows Infinite Things

The Banality of Evil Redux: Do Planned Parenthood Officials Sin? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Briggs Is Available To Speak. Update

Having A Kid Worse Than Divorce Or Death? Wee P-values Say Yes

The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill. New Paper

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