2013 – Page 6 – William M. Briggs

Dawkins Gets It Wrong Again: Similar Is Not The Same

Richard Dawkins in an article to the New Statesman---the same issue which somebody who obviously wasn't in full possession of his faculties assigned to Dawkins as editor---the Christmas issue, mind---an…

Statistics

We’re 88% Through The International Year Of Statistics

I hadn't any idea we'd even started. But thanks to reader Dan Hughes and his link to the Wall Street Journal story Odds Lot: Statisticians Party Like It's 2.013 x…

Statistics

Nonstatisticians Often Screw Up Statistics

Title stolen from article of same name by Leland Teschler in the trade journal Machine Design. Update Statisticians often screw up statistics, too. See below. The article is the result…

Statistics

Johnson’s Revised Standards For Statistical Evidence

Thanks to the many readers who sent me Johnson's paper, which is here (pdf). Those who haven't will want to read "Everything Wrong With P-values Under One Roof", the material…

Fun

Briggs Exposes His Better Side

These are the pants I wore yesterday through airports, airplanes, taxis, and the streets of San Francisco, thus exposing my better side to roughly half the country. Notice that the…

Statistics

Racist Researchers, The Racists, Accuse Gun Owners Of Racism, You Racist

That kick-butt guy in the black wig is me, kung fu-ing the stuffing out of asinine research. Listen to the klaxon clang as evildoers discover we are among them! Or…

Fun

A Veteran’s Day Tale

From 1986 to 1989, I was stationed at Kadena Air Force Base, smack in the middle of Okinawa. Which wasn't hard. Being in the middle, I mean. The island is…

Fun Philosophy

Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism

Dozens of big brains, and one fat head held aloft by Yours Truly, crammed into a small room yesterday to hear all there was to know, more or less, about…

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/
Hagfish Bagpipe on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Fascinating, amazing, fragrant, and semi-scrutable. Thanks, never heard of the man before.