Statistics – Page 244 – William M. Briggs

Can Catching A Cold Make You Fat?

Jeff Schwimmer and his University of California-San Diego colleagues seem to think so. In a press-release that is being cut-and-pasted across across the internet, Schwimmer tells of a study he…

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“Climate Calamity” Rejected In Favor Of “Climate Disruption”

President Obama's White House has been hard at work trying to discover another term for global warming. The old phrase was deemed staid and passé, so much so that its…

Fun Statistics

Spot The Logical Fallacy!

See the first installment of our favorite game. As is frequent in the evolution of games shows, the set of rules has been simplified. Itâ€™s time to play everybodyâ€™s favorite…

Culture Statistics

Too Many Kids Go To College: A Second Conversation With Myself

Read the first conversation here. William How goes the teaching? Matt Do you really want to know? You might not like the answer. William You're going to start this conversation…

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Lying For A Living: Tiny Airline Seats

Cowboys on airplanes No doubt channeling Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, the Italian design firm Aviointeriors Group has created a new airline seat dubbed the "saddle." Ride them skies! What…

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University Rankings: Wall Street Journal, ACTA, QS

I, working with Cambria Consulting (see below), was involved heavily creating the WSJ's Top 25 College rankings which are in today's papers. All questions on the methods, I defer to…

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Global Competitiveness Report: World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum has released their 2010-2011 rankings of Global Competitiveness, a subject matter so important that it rates Capital Letters to introduce. For each country, the economists from…

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The Education Bubble

Talk of the---and I mean the---education bubble is everywhere. But nowhere is it more succinctly or beautifully demonstrated than in a picture created by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise…

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Brothers in exile we are, Mr. Briggs. I believe my banishment, going on a year ago, was in response to…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
The comedy is there, as you say, Sarge; and yet, if everyone followed their example, and endured, the slaughter would…
Incitadus on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
The irony is deep the luminaries that insist on open borders for every third world hell hole the patriarchy has…
Phileas_Frogg on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
Riot, assault and kill American citizens, commit widespread arson, make whole city blocks into warzones, take over police precincts and…
Jan Van Betsuni on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 26, 2024
The American wit Dorothy Parker once quipped: "If you laid all the girls at Vassar end to end, I wouldn't…