Statistics – Page 154 – William M. Briggs

Bread From Something Or Nothing? Or, What’s A Miracle?

We interrupt our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles for this brief message. You've heard of the miracle of loaves and fishes? What's a miracle? How do miracles happen? Read these…

Philosophy Statistics

More Reasons Not To Use The Precautionary Principle: Update

All probability is conditional and we are always interested in some proposition, call it X. We want to know "the probability of X". Well, there is none: not ever. There…

Statistics

Stream: Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space!

Today's post is at The Stream: "Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space: Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his co-authors fail to show their precautionary principle provides any guidance in…

Culture Statistics

Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality at The Federalist

Today's post is at The Federalist: "Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality". So Ars Technica sent a young man who bills himself as an "educator" and hydrologist to the…

Statistics

Idols With Wee P Values. Statistics As Ritual

Or, rather, wee p-values are idolized. And it isn't just me saying so. Reader Dan Hughes points us to Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski's peer-reviewed paper "Surrogate Science: The Idol…

Statistics

Cheating With Polls Down Under. Guest Post by Stephen Dawson

Today's post is from our friend Stephen Dawson, who writes at hifi-writer.com. I scheduled this in advance, knowing I'd be suffering jet lag. Professor Will Steffen from the Australian National…

Statistics

The Need To Believe In “The Solution” To Global Warming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgM1yhwj1mg Travel day, plus I wanted to have this on its own anyway. Speech given at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change, June 12, 2015 in Washington, DC. The…

Fun Statistics

Corrigan Brothers’ Statistics Song. Finally Released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2j96hpEkM Ladies and Gentlemen, it has arrived. The world famous Corrigan Brothers have another hit! What they did for Barack Obama in their mega-smash There's No One As Irish As…

Johnno on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 8, 2025
I wonder if climate change bothers some people so much it actually shortens their lifespans. Someone should fund that study.…
Government Funding Corrupts Science, How to Stop It – Climate- Science.press on The Case For Ending Government Funding of ScienceMarch 8, 2025
[…] Briggs explains in his blog article The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science. Excerpts in italics with my bolds…
C-Marie on Against The Anthropic PrincipleMarch 7, 2025
Well done, hudbwu!! Thank you! God bless, C-Marie
hudbwu on Against The Anthropic PrincipleMarch 7, 2025
> Because the world didn’t have to be this way, we didn’t have to be here. Therefore there is nothing…
Cary Cotterman on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
I live near Loma Linda, California, where temperatures are normally 90 degrees F. or higher at least six months per…