William M. Briggs

Chick-fil-A And Bigotry: One Aspect Of What Marriage Is

"Chick-Fil-A Shattered Sales Records On 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day'" so reads the headline at Business Insider. Many are not so happy about this. In a unintentionally hilarious video (especially when he…

Statistics

Question About Non-Normal Distributions

Thanks to everybody who sent in links, story tips, and suggestions. Because of my recent travel and pressures of work, I'm (again) way behind in answering these. I do appreciate…

Culture Statistics

More Proof Music Is Growing Worse

New proof (which wasn't really need) that popular music is, as has long been claimed, been growing worse has arrived thanks to the diligent work of Joan Serrà and his…

Statistics

Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training—Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

His Lordship sent this around to all the usual suspects asking that it be given a wide audience. I'm traveling today. About 18 months ago, as soon as I heard…

Statistics

Richard Muller’s Political Move—BEST is Best? Sophisticated Statistics!

Our Berkeley Earth approach used sophisticated statistical methods developed largely by our lead scientist, Robert Rohde, which allowed us to determine earth land temperature much further back in time. Ah,…

Statistics

Doctors For Disaster Preparedness Talk

Here's the PDF of my talk DDP 30th Annual Meeting. "Statistical Follies and Epidemiology." They picked the title. Have fun!

Fun

Google’s Eric Schmidt & Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Blaze Path Of Ugliness

This is a picture of Google's Eric Schmidt & Chicago's Rahm "Crisis" Emanuel from today's Wall Street Journal story Google Move Buoys Chicago Tech Hub. Chicago! The city of the…

Culture

The Chicago Way With Chik-Fil-A

There is a sense in which we all argue that is statistical. For instance, if we say of a group that it sports an "arrogant attitude" we do not mean…

Cary Cotterman on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
I live near Loma Linda, California, where temperatures are normally 90 degrees F. or higher at least six months per…
Brian (bulaoren) on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
It's not the heat, it's the humidity
Uncle Mike on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
Warmer Is Better Rational#473: people live longer in warm climes! Absoheatinglutely. Correlation IS causation. Ha! I knew it all along.…
Paul Murphy on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
umm... does it make sense to ask whether yearly climate variability affects lifespans? Michigan, for example, is very hot and…
Michael Dowd on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
Factor to consider: Florida has a significant number of old folks who immigrated. They then start riding bicycles, walking, getting…

William M. Briggs

“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor

The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science

Class 41: What Is Cause Like?

Catholicism Vs The US Conference of Catholic Bishops — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

On Scott Adams’s Vax-Decision Analysis

Against The Anthropic Principle

Class 40: Welcome To Cause!

It’s Okay To Trust DOGE To Cut Cut Cut: Stream

Time To End Bad Science Like This

2,800 — And Growing — Scientists Butthurt Over Elon Musk Squeal To The Royal Society

Class 39: Trust Your Equations! (Bayes)

“Feminism Is A Disease Of The Rich”

Trump Slashing The Cancerous “The Science” Bloat: Cut Cut Cut!

On The Probability Of Large Rocks From Space!

Class 38: Truly Random & Information Complexity

The Path To Victory

On Various New Values Of P(Doom)

Putting The Stargate AI Hype Into Perspective (Stream)

Class 37: Simulations Aren’t What You Think

On The Limitations of AI: Predictions

“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

David Hume’s Anti-Miracles Argument Is Poor

Chick-fil-A And Bigotry: One Aspect Of What Marriage Is

Question About Non-Normal Distributions

More Proof Music Is Growing Worse

Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training—Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

Richard Muller’s Political Move—BEST is Best? Sophisticated Statistics!

Doctors For Disaster Preparedness Talk

Google’s Eric Schmidt & Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Blaze Path Of Ugliness

The Chicago Way With Chik-Fil-A

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