William M. Briggs

Why Reconstructed Temperatures Via Proxies Are Misleading

This is an edited and expanded re-post from last September; it makes a natural and needed companion to last week's series on how to statistically handle temperature time series, particularly…

Statistics

Autism Caused By Highways?

Epidemiology is nothing if not a productive field. All that is needed for success is a database (larger the better), a disease (any will do), and some minor facility with…

Philosophy

Stove On Unintended Consequences

A few quotations, incomplete, on this important subject from Stove's On Enlightenment. A primitive society is being devastated by a disease, so you bring modern medicine to bear, and wipe…

Fun

Mathematical Magic Trick: 8 4-Digit Numbers Summing To 35712?

From reader Noble Abraham comes this question: Is it possible to create a pool of distinct four digit numbers, so that the sum of 8 randomly chosen numbers from this…

Culture Philosophy

The Obama-HHS Diktat On Contraceptive Coverage: Non-Religious Arguments Against It

The government has decided that citizens who agree to work for other citizens must be given "free" coverage for contraceptives and drugs for auto-abortions. The "free" is a misnomer. Actually,…

Philosophy Statistics

Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part V

Part I, II, III, IV, V. We started by assuming each X was measured without error, that each observation was perfectly certain. This is not always so for real X.…

Philosophy Statistics

Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part IV

Part I, II, III, IV, V. We have before us X1 to X156. We started by assuming that something, called T, caused these data to take the values it did.…

Philosophy Statistics

Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part III

Part I, II, III, IV, V. The objection which will occur to those, Lord help them, who have had some statistical training is that "increased" means a combination of "linear…

Uncle Mike on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Dear Joy, Goodness always wins in the end. Or the End. All powerful is not a speculation. Keep the faith.…
Paul Murphy on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
It is an odd truth that whenever libs do stupid stuff they turn out to be relying on the other…
Cary Cotterman on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
It's not just Mika and Rachel. Joy Reid has also been flipping her wig. May their ratings plummet into the…
Joy on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Dear Uncle Mike, regarding the ICBM's, I'm thinking Russia will show restraint until January. If Putin is cornered, things will…
Uncle Mike on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Great pic. Thank you, Brother.

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

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

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

Why Reconstructed Temperatures Via Proxies Are Misleading

Autism Caused By Highways?

Stove On Unintended Consequences

Mathematical Magic Trick: 8 4-Digit Numbers Summing To 35712?

The Obama-HHS Diktat On Contraceptive Coverage: Non-Religious Arguments Against It

Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part V

Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part IV

Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part III

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