William M. Briggs

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell

Recommendation: read When Fussell wrote in 1982 (and published in 1983), he said that acknowledging the class divisions that exist in America exist was poor form and that doing so…

Statistics

The Great Government CO₂ Power Grab

The inevitable has happened. The Obama government has declared CO2---a nutrient required by plants to live, and a gas exhaled with your every breath---a pollutant. Let there be rejoicing in…

Culture

Title IX in Science and Engineering

Your university's science and engineering programs might be "Titled nined" if Those That Care have their way. Title IX, or the "Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act", is…

Culture

Go, Bird, go!

You've all heard it by now. Mark "The Bird" Fidrych is dead. He was 54. There are plenty of places to read about The Bird, like here and especially here.…

Culture

Top 10 Men’s fashion rules

It's Spring, so it's high time we talked about men's fashion. Update: George Will and Daniel Akst from the Wall Street Journal have weighed in. We'll do women at another…

Fun

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If you came to this page looking for something else, could you pretty please leave a comment below saying what you were looking for? I think I have all the…

Culture Fun

I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse

Enough with the pitch count! It was 88 last pitch---and even with my limited mathematical ability I can figure out that the next must be 89. Keep quiet about on-base…

Philosophy Statistics

The only two reasons for statistics

This short post is for reference. I will point back to it from time to time. Reason 1: to say something about the past Examples: counting seasonal numbers of wins…

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,…
McChuck on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 22, 2024
@PhilH - What you are describing *is* quantum mechanics. More specifically, quantum field theory. Once you eliminate all the woo-hoo…
Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health – William M. Briggs on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 22, 2024
[…] post is originally from 9 November 2012, twelve years ago. It warned of the coming health dictatorship and the zeal…

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

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell

The Great Government CO₂ Power Grab

Title IX in Science and Engineering

Go, Bird, go!

Top 10 Men’s fashion rules

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I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse

The only two reasons for statistics

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