William M. Briggs

Political Neuroscience Shows Obama Voters Are Different Than Romney Voters

Bulimia stereopticon! No, that's not it. Bovine spongeography? Barack standardization? Broadside synchronizable? Rats. I just can't think of a phrase that's on the tip of me tongue. And I so…

Culture

Did General Petraeus Stray Because Of His Wife’s Hair? Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell

First of all, let me register my disappointment with General Petraeus. He is the last in a cavalcade of public figures (Democrat and Republican) who has fallen short when it…

Culture

More Consequences: The Way The World Looks

Joke Saddest part of this joke is that anybody under 40 won't get it. https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/266312123884380160 Expectations Got this spam in my Inbox yesterday: The movie industry shows their support to…

Culture

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

I have quoted these words from Mark Twain many times. They never lose their relevance: There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable…

Culture

When Accepting Charity Was Embarrassing: The Lessons of Fibber McGee And Molly

Update New & Improved Title! (I hope.) I'm a fan of old time radio, where voice and imagination were everything. Box 13 with adventurer Dan Holliday (Alan Ladd). Duffy's Tavern,…

Culture

Congratulations Again Democrats

Good for you Mr President, you won. Huzzah. Thank Sandy? The Senate stayed blue; turned bluer, even. My only advice is not to run the money-printing presses the full twenty-four…

Statistics

The Final Polls & Predictions: What’s The Difference Between Polls And Models?

There are two ways to forecast the election: polls and models. Polls are easy: go out and ask who will vote for whom, tally the results, and print 'em. As…

Statistics

Nobody Called Mitt Romney Stupid

Three years ago in a speech on military matters, President Obama, reading from his ever-present teleprompter, several times mispronounced the word corpsman as corpse-man. (I don't expect you to believe…

Codex on How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac MassNovember 29, 2024
Why would RFK kill all the cows?
Hagfish Bagpipe on Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of ThanksgivingNovember 28, 2024
An evergreen topic, Briggs. Thanks for posting it once again.
hudbwu on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
> but how can Islam worship the same God as Christians Because they searched existence for the Ultimate and they…
hudbwu on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
> It is an odd truth that whenever libs do stupid stuff they turn out to be relying on the…
John Pate on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
Nukes are as fake and gay as the moon landings. You guys are drinking too much Kool-aid for all your…

William M. Briggs

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

Class 29: Nothing Has A Distribution

Women Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science

Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way?

Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige

Class 28: Randomization Redux (Randomization Does Nothing)

If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?

What The Covid Panic Did To Science

We Win

See You On The Other Side

Class 27: Probability Is In Your Mind, Not Things

How Tim Walz Did Not Know Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Political Neuroscience Shows Obama Voters Are Different Than Romney Voters

Did General Petraeus Stray Because Of His Wife’s Hair? Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell

More Consequences: The Way The World Looks

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

When Accepting Charity Was Embarrassing: The Lessons of Fibber McGee And Molly

Congratulations Again Democrats

The Final Polls & Predictions: What’s The Difference Between Polls And Models?

Nobody Called Mitt Romney Stupid

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