Posted inStatistics
A Doctor Reveals His Wee P
You go into the doc's office. He's not looking happy. He's holding your chart. "Mr Smith, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you." Give it to me straight,…
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Scientists Discover Animals Breathe
Scientists---Expert scientists---have discovered that animals breathe. And they are none too happy about it. For these same scientists tell us that animal respiration contributes to global warming. Now called "climate…
Posted inCulture
Why Things Slightly Improving Makes Things Worse
Here is the patented Briggs Path of Decadence Curve. The pattern is obvious. An overall gradual decline, interspersed with fairly regular upward swings of sanity. But with the same inevitable…
Posted inPhilosophy
Doom For The Doomsday Argument
Heard of the Doomsday Argument, sometimes also called the Carter Catastrophe? It claims to be able to name the date, with a certain confidence, at which mankind dies off. It…
Posted inBook review Culture
Empire Of Hatred: A Study of the Revolution by Richard Greenhorn Reviewed
Richard Greenhorn says, and we believe him, that there have been five, count 'em, five revolutions in the West, each piling on to the destructive forces of the previous. These…
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Posted inStatistics
“Why Didn’t Use You The [fill in the blank] Model On That NZ Data, Briggs?”
"Hey, Briggs. I saw your take on the leaked New Zealand vaccine data. Interesting. But why didn't you use [Insert My Favorite Statistics Model Here]?" [Blog, Substack mirror.] I'll tell…
Posted inCulture
Climate Hersteria
Hersteria: soy-infused hyper-sensitive effeminate hysteria. I was driving in southern Florida (to see my folks) and the only English-language talk station I could pick up that wasn't a form of…
Posted inCulture
All Jacked Up — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Briggs editorial note: When I was young it was still common for old men to ask where you were on "that day." I always flummoxed them by saying I wasn't…