May 2016 – Page 2 – William M. Briggs

Quantum Mechanics, Potentiality, Ontology, Epistemology, & Probability

What is and what is known about what is are two concepts which are often entangled, especially in quantum mechanics (puns intentional). This is one of the subjects which I…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Failed Arguments For The Eternity Of The World I

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. I'm departing…

Fun

Think You Can Simulate A Brain? Think Again

Since is Silly Saturday, a few fun back-of-the-envelope calculations on simulating a brain. I'm drawing from the marvelous, must-read (go do it now) essay "The empty brain: Your brain does…

Statistics

Brits Psychologists Cry “BS!” Over Research Practices. Or, Die P-Value, Die Die Die

In The British Psychological Society's official organ The Psychologist, two gents Tom Farsides and Paul Sparks, call BS on standard research practices. There is a worrying amount of outright fraud…

Statistics

Watching Porn Makes People More Religious? The Severe Limitations of Quantifying Behavior

One paper reports, "People who watch porn more than once a week tend to become more religious, a researcher claims, while those who watch racy videos occasionally tend to drift…

Culture

This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIveP1SEZjs Dall'Abaco concerto The week of the worst that was, in aural form, featuring the music of Giuseppe Torelli and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. Torelli trumpet concerto Because they can, and…

Culture

Stream: The Transgender Logic of Gender Fluidity Justifies Absurdities

Today's mandatory reading is at The Stream: The Transgender Logic of Gender Fluidity Can Justify Absurdities: Gender, say some, is separate from sex. You are a man in the sense…

Statistics

More On The Deadly Sin Of Reification

https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/730854730335846400 (If you can't see the picture embedded in the tweet, click here for the original.) The axes are "Percent of men non-employed" by "Percent of births to unmarried women".…

Briggs on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
TFBW, Fixed. Thanks.
TFBW on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
The link to Breaking the Law of Averages has been sabotaged by one of your enemies.
John Pate on Academics Have Contest To See How Many Times They Can Say ‘Racist’ In An Article: An IQ StoryJuly 22, 2024
The problems with IQ measurement are very well understood by proponents like Lynn. I once had lunch with a group…
Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many! – William M. Briggs on The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2July 22, 2024
[…] impossibly perfect symmetry in the device/die and its workings. Did you watch the coin flip video? (Blog, Substack). Now…
Johnno on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
Interesting things being discussed here. I guess it's time to see where this goes... https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-michael-yeadon-explains-why-theres-no-evidence-for-the-existence-of-any-viruses/ https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/scientists-challenge-fundamental-precepts-of-virology-do-viruses-even-exist/