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Correlation of Non-Procreative Sex & Lack of Traditional Religion

Gallup has published two new polls. The first estimates the percent of those desiring non-procreative sex in each state. The second guesses the percent of non-affiliation with traditional religion (Christianity).…

Fun

Top 10 Blog & Stream Posts of 2017

Here they are! The most desperately awaited Top 10 Posts at WMBriggs.com of 2017! This is followed by the even-more-exciting Top 10 Stream Articles. These are counted by post statistics,…

Philosophy Statistics

Falsifiability Is Falsifiable

We've talked many times before, and at greater length in Uncertanity, about the concept of falsifiability. It has come up again lately. The term shouldn't be but is equivocal. I…

Philosophy Statistics

All Of The Supposed Paradoxes About The Principle Of Indifference Are Bogus

Here is an example of a supposed paradox caused by using Keyne's Principle of Indifference, which Stove and others (and myself) call the Statistical Syllogism (itself deduced from the symmetry…

Statistics

Clever Statistical Method To Discover Fraud (Or Mistakes)

This is in the I-wish-I-had-thought-of-it category. A simple tool that suggests where fraud or major malfunctions in statistical research might exist. First, a description of the tool; second, a description…

Fun

Register Your Predictions For 2018

As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year later this week.…

Statistics

Science Says It’s Better To Be Single

The headline reads "It's better to be single, study finds." The study is the peer-reviewed paper "Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to…

Class Statistics

Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VII

Review! This is our last week of theory. Next week the practical side begins in earnest. However much fun that will be, and it will be a jolly time, this…

Paul Murphy on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
For even more fun, try the antonyms - I started with "apathy" and "callousness" - ended up laughing loud enough…
Brian (bulaoren) on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
I feel you, man!
Briggs on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 14, 2024
Hagfish, Nose ring?
Hagfish Bagpipe on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
Wonderful graphic. That's what I would say if the bloody bouncer dropped the velvet rope and let me enter Club…
C-Marie on The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then SuddenlyNovember 13, 2024
There has always been "the church system of man" within the Catholic Church. Do read Matthew 24: 4-8 " 4…