William M. Briggs

Legal Standards Of Proof And Probability

Different courts and legal systems use diverse phrases about evidentiary standards of proof1. Few to none are precise in the sense that they offer a fixed probability number for this…

Statistics

There Is No Such Thing As A Scientific Poll

There is no such thing as an unscientific one, either. A poll is this: a question or questions that are interpreted and answered by a group of individuals at a…

Culture

Nazis, Communists Now Support Occupy Wall Street

Mr Obama said this weekend that Martin Luther King "would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street" but perhaps MLK would not want us to "demonise" bankers, even…

Statistics

Romney and Holdren Sittin’ In A Tree

Update: Somehow---I don't know how---the beginning of this piece has disappeared. I'll try to find it. Yeesh. Mitt Romeny, when Governor: Massachusetts continues to be committed to improving air quality…

Culture Fun

Occupy Sacramento!

The movement began with a rally on the Capitol steps, then proceeded by parade to Cesar Chavez park, at 10th and J streets, where it mingled with the folks…

Culture Statistics

British Judge Rules Against Bayes’s Theorem

A British judge has thrown a use of Bayes's rule out of his court. Not only that, his honor (Lordship?) ruled "against using similar statistical analysis in the courts in…

Fun

Those Darn Skeptics And Their Communications Professionals

"All right, boys," began James Hansen, "Listen up. Climate contrarians are winning the argument with the public over global warming. "This is so even though climate science itself is becoming…

Culture Statistics

What Are The Chances Of War With China?

By the year 2012, or 2017, or 2022, what are the chances China's military engages US forces? Difficult question. But one which is better than asking the title question---because nobody…

Michael Dowd on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
Thoughts of doom has its upside---helping folks pay some mind to God and what He expects from us. Let us…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle MikeNovember 27, 2024
I have never watched MSNBC but I often wonder what the Almighty is going to do with all of us…
Cary Cotterman on How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac MassNovember 26, 2024
I'm just going to avoid the drugs and stick to my very effective old standby--expending more calories than I consume.…
spetzer86 on How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac MassNovember 26, 2024
I'm shocked nobody mentioned the impact of group size in this study. Certainly, any blinded mouse study with more than…
Uncle Mike on How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac MassNovember 26, 2024
My favorite pics are the Christmas trees. Okay. I grant you that Big Pharm is killing America, that Novo Nordisk,…

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