William M. Briggs

Are Student Athletes Worse Than Other Students? Deadspin Contest

Ambrose Bierce, as usual, summarized it best for us in the Devil's Dictionary: ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern…

Culture

Richard Rogers, Architect Versus Charles, Prince

The New York Review of Books, via an article submitted by a man appropriately named Martin Filler has "deconstructed" Prince Charles dislike of modern architecture. Deconstruction, in case you did…

Culture

The Love Of Money Leads To Socialism

Most, with good reason, misremember the quotation. In entirety: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the…

Culture

The Etiquette Of Hats (For Men)

The giants, and also the midgets, of fashion are chirruping that "Hats are backs!" These fine people, who are ever discovering new ways of cladding themselves in black, are wrong.…

Statistics

The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite

Everybody says the "gold standard" of experimentation, and especially clinical trials, is the randomized controlled trial. A typical view is that "A Randomized Controlled Trial is an experiment or study…

Fun

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

The highlight was the Polish Festival in Boyne Falls, which featured a beer tent at which was served only Budweiser, hot dogs that were labeled "kielbasa", golabki covered in tomato…

Statistics

Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part II

Be sure to read yesterday's post first. One of the screwy consequences of classical statistics is that my odd sample (mixing babies and the patients from the brain cancer ward)…

Statistics

Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part I

A standard epidemiological study goes like this: people who have been "exposed" to some thing, say, cell phone radiation, are examined to discover whether or not they have some malady.…

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…
BadThinker on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 24, 2024
And of course Health now also means "medically assisted dying" for those deemed unfit or sad or too white.
Uncle Mike on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 23, 2024
I wish to be clear. I don't need RFKJ or anybody else telling me what I may or may not…
spaceranger on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 23, 2024
I think it was Twain who said that if you don't maintain at least a few bad habits to get…

William M. Briggs

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

Class 26: Randomization Does Nothing

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

Are Student Athletes Worse Than Other Students? Deadspin Contest

Richard Rogers, Architect Versus Charles, Prince

The Love Of Money Leads To Socialism

The Etiquette Of Hats (For Men)

The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part II

Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part I

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