William M. Briggs

Coronadoom Misinformation Model Says What It Was Told To Say

Repeat after me (yes, this includes all you regulars, too): All models only say what they are told to say. Thank you. Now let's see this headline: "COVID-19 misinformation cost…

Statistics

How To Gamble If You Must

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, or Gab. Our title comes from a famous book by Lester Dubbins and Leonard Savage, which appeared at the beginning of the Bayesian…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The World After Judgment — The Last Post In This Series

Previous post. And so, dear readers, we at long last come to the end of the book. We started almost nine years ago, going through all four books, chapter by…

Culture

Pfizer’s Gain-Of-Lethality Research Sting: Clown-World Contagion Comedy

So this is going around: https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1618410309613662209 This Walker is listed as "Director, Worldwide R&D Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning." Many of you know, but for those who do not,…

Statistics

We Put Some Uncomfortable Questions To Those Who Say There Is A Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”

A group of us put some hard questions to the Netherlands Council of State, asking how they knew there was a nitrogen "crisis." Yes, this is about political matters in…

Culture

The Woke Will Never Let Us Go: Comments On Anton’s Secession Dialogue

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitchuteT, or Gab (back up). Michael Anton in The Asylum has a semi-imaginary dialogue between himself (he calls himself Tom) and a woke man…

Philosophy Statistics

What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute or Gab (to come). From Anon comes the major announcement: "Quside unveils the world’s first Randomness Processing Unit". Quside today unveils its vision…

Culture

Women Firemen To Be Allowed To Battle Fires With Feelings In Connecticut

I always have mixed feelings when I see stories with headlines like this: "Connecticut Law Would Axe Fitness Requirements for Female Firefighters". My first reaction is to laugh. Not solely…

John Pate on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 23, 2024
String Theorists can make a good living with nonsense, so can Quantum Computer enthusiasts. You've just got to hand wave…
Why Pope Benedict’s resignation was valid: a response to Dr. Mazza - LifeSite - Christianity House on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
[…] [5] See “The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’Reilly,” on the WMBRIGGS website.…
Uncle Mike on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 22, 2024
It's a topsy-turvy world! The schools ban lunches but allow boys in the girls bathrooms. Peanuts bad, rape okay. But…
Oral.sk - Necenzurované správy Pre?o bola rezignácia pápeža Benedikta platná: odpove? Dr. Mazzovi on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
[…] [5] Pozri “Debata o tom, ?i je pápež František pápežom, pokra?uje. Dva poh?ady Edmunda J. Mazzu a Stevena O’Reillyho,”…
Tars Tarkas on Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished ExpertNovember 22, 2024
"Lichtman, poor fellow, did not resist. I have sympathy for him. He has been sought, and lauded, every four years,…

William M. Briggs

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

Class 26: Randomization Does Nothing

Addicted To Drug — Statistics

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

Coronadoom Misinformation Model Says What It Was Told To Say

How To Gamble If You Must

Summary Against Modern Thought: The World After Judgment — The Last Post In This Series

Pfizer’s Gain-Of-Lethality Research Sting: Clown-World Contagion Comedy

We Put Some Uncomfortable Questions To Those Who Say There Is A Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”

The Woke Will Never Let Us Go: Comments On Anton’s Secession Dialogue

What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?

Women Firemen To Be Allowed To Battle Fires With Feelings In Connecticut

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