William M. Briggs

Scientists Discover Women Who Lick Their Lips Are Judged More Attractive By College Men

Hot or Not? First the good news. It's completely unrelated to what follows, but it is good news. Scientists say "Aliens 'wouldn't want to eat or enslave us' says ET-hunting…

Statistics

Believers Less Vindictive Than Godless Atheists: New Research

Vengeance Is Mine The actual title of the Live Science press release was "Believers Leave Punishment to Powerful God," a story which opens with the memorable words: Believing in an…

Philosophy

Why Truth Isn’t Absolute: A Defense Of Relativism — Guest Post by Luis Dias

Regular readers will recognize frequent commentor and foil Luis Dias, who today offers us his defense of relativism. As the Staford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "Although relativistic lines of thought…

Fun Statistics

Interest In On-Line Statistics Courses?

You might have heard what happened to when Stanford professor Andrew Ng put his machine learning (a practical kind of statistical modeling) on line. He expected mild interest. One hundred…

Culture Fun

Richard Dawkins Turns Gideon?

Today a story which falls under Bets You Would Have Lost. Angry atheist (sounds like a board game) Richard Dawkins said he would have "contributed financially to the scheme" of…

Philosophy Statistics

Scientific Truths Are Not Better Truths Than Just-Plain Truths

One of the key fallacies of scientism, in the sense of being the most destructive to common sense and personal wellbeing, is to suppose that any theory put forth in…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common

Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984…

Statistics

How To Present Anything As Significant. Update: Nature Weighs In

Update The paper on which this post was based has hit the presses which was used as an occasion for Nature to opine that, just maybe, that some of the…

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…
C-Marie on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 28, 2024
Vatican II and Pope John Paul II, declared that Islam worships the same God asChristians do because Islam says there…
AAPS News November 2024 – A Change In Direction? – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons on What The Covid Panic Did To ScienceNovember 27, 2024
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William M. Briggs

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

Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Reviewed

The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly