William M. Briggs

The Nature Of Probability And Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 1

Ithaca was once voted the "Most Enlightened City." I can't say whether this is true, but I can tell you that the Cornell's Statler hotel's refrigerator contain a placard, which…

Statistics

Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0

Two Weeks Beginning tomorrow, and lasting a semisolid two weeks, will be my class at Cornell. A Masters "How To" in statistics, directed towards MBA-like personages. An impossible task. No…

Culture Statistics

Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?

Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last…

Culture Philosophy

Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…

Statistics

Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update

Concentration Camps To Re-educate Deniers Next? It's time to make public examples of those that disagree with reporter, and non-science-educated Richard Glover's view of climate change. He would have skeptics…

Statistics

Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime

All p-values are not created equal, nor equally. Use one inappropriately, and you can land in jail. Just like Scott "Baron" (I'm guessing) Harkonen, former CEO of InterMune, a company…

Fun

Caught With My Pants Down

No, not like Andrew "Stuffed Shorts" Weiner. I mean literally, as in the picture below, taken while walking across the Manhattan Bridge. A guy on a bike, who I later…

Philosophy

Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story

"There is no heaven; it's a fairy story," said Stephen Hawking to The Guardian. And since the wheelchair-bound physicist is famous, and known to be clever (despite bedevilment by disease),…

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,…
john b() on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 25, 2024
Douglas Adams had been laughing at physicists and "Quantum Computing" two years before Yuri Manin and Richard Feynman thought it…
Phileas_Frogg on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 25, 2024
@Uncle Mike Stop bitching. RFK is a flat improvement because of his stance on vaccines alone. His skepticism towards the…

William M. Briggs

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

The Science Of Transitioning Children

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

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

The Nature Of Probability And Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 1

Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0

Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?

Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update

Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime

Caught With My Pants Down

Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story

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