2013 – Page 14 – William M. Briggs

Pope Francis’s Mega Interview: Music & Literature Recommendations

I liked this new pope from the beginning, and for the weakest of all reasons. He looks a bit like my (deceased) maternal grandfather (who taught me to fish). He…

Culture

On-Line Courses Not Faring Well—As Expected

Two months back I made the non-joke that MOOC's---massive off-line open courses---were not new, not "revolutionary", and were therefore not going to "change the face of education as we know…

Culture Statistics

Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II

Update 4 Too late. 10 October 2013. Update 4 Moved this to top because the bill allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is on Gov. Brown's desk. He'll likely sign, but…

Statistics

How To Mislead With P-values: Logistic Regression Example

Today's evidence is not new; is, in fact, well known. Well, make that just plain known. It's learned and then forgotten, dismissed. Everybody knows about these kinds of mistakes, but…

Statistics

Bacteria Found In Holy Water

Study making the rounds yesterday was "Holy springs and holy water: underestimated sources of illness?" in the Journal of Water & Healthnational chess master) and others. They sampled holy water…

Statistics

Econometric Drinking Games, WSJ Edition: Update

Jim Fedako sent in this Wall Street Journal column, written by one Dan Ariely, a "Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics." A lady wrote Ariely asking for economic party games.…

Philosophy Statistics

Most Probabilities Aren’t Quantifiable

We've done this before in different form. But it hasn't stuck; plus we need this for reference. Not all probability is quantifiable. The proof for this is simple: all that…

Philosophy

The Consensus In Philosophy

In 1887 almost every philosopher in the English-speaking countries was an idealist. A hundred years later in the same countries, almost all philosophers have forgotten this fact; and when, as…

Heresolong on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Unfortunately I don't have any more details. It just stopped working. Oh well. Substance mirror works though so I'll just…
BDavi52 on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 25, 2024
Rudolph H. Sounds like a wonderful solution to the 'life makes me anxious' problem. AI tells me what to do...and…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Paul, Just like math, like analytics. No experimental debunking.
Paul murphy on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
I have not read Smith, but stand by my general assertion that metaphysics is much much easier than physics. Hey…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Heresolong, I have no idea why. Can you provide more detail? You can also try the Substack mirror: https://wmbriggs.substack.com/