Suppose you heard on the radio a breaking news story: "Shots reported at Fort Hood Army base. Several are dead, many more are wounded. Eyewitnesses claim this is an act…

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0004.mp3[/podcast] Today's lecture: Format change The regular and statistics podcasts are undergoing some changes. Stay tuned to this page for details. Today's show is a little rushed because of this.…

"J'accuse! A statistician may prove anything with his nefarious methods. He may even say a negative number is positive! You cannot trust anything he says." Sigh. Unfortunately, this oft-hurled charge…

The closest I come to "Big Oil" is when I create my spécialité de la maison: bacon-olive-oil confit. Incidentally, that's the only way to cook this miracle pig meat---frying removes…

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0003.mp3[/podcast] Today's lecture: Review Logic: If our premises are that we have a six-sided die that we'll toss, and that only one side will show on that toss, and that…

My logs show that only a paltry 3.6% of readers have reached Complete Enlightenment. The bad news is that 83.1% of you live a hellish existence and suffer regular torments…

Today's guest post is by our very own Bernie, longtime reader and contributer. Too confused and too nuanced to be effective Phelim McAleer's and Ann McElhinney's Not Evil, Just Wrong…

In the United States, we have several major news outlets. On television: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. There are also several national-ish newspapers (and a diminishing number…