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Why You Should Care About The Philosophy Of Probability & Statistics

"Why, Dr Briggs," asks the earnest Student, "Why must we study all this gobbledegook about philosophy when it's more important to learn all the neat methods of handling data? Why…

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About That Lefties-Drink-More-Than-Conservatives Study

"Honey? Did you meet our new neighbors?" "Not yet. Why?" "I'm a little worried about them. They have an 'I heart NPR' sticker on their Prius." "Oh, God. Pass me…

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Vitamin D And Cancer

This is our second big week focusing on colorectual cancer. Three weeks makes a streak. We'll see. Our paper is Mapping Vitamin D Deficiency, Breast Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer by…

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On Intelligence & Religiosity

Take a pencil and paper---do this---and write down the most intelligent people who have ever lived. Most brilliant in any field of endeavor, now. Who were the best of us?…

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National Academy Of Sciences Mistakes Politics For Science. Again

Sometimes I want to write but only tears will come. I (a member of no party) quote from the opening of a recent "scientific" study published by that august organization,…

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Preface: The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics, An Introduction

%This is the Preface of The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics, An Introduction coming before Preface and before the chapters on Truth and Logic. Note the New & Improved title!…

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Selling Fear Is A Risky Business: Part Last

Read Part I, Part II. Don't be lazy. This is difficult but extremely important stuff. Let's add in a layer of uncertainty and see what happens. But first hike up…

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Exposure to Fast Food Impedes Happiness, Researchers

That don't call it the unhappy meal for nothing. Or, wait... What we have here is yet another instance of scientists claiming to have done something they did not do.…

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…
Briggs on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
All, I have done examples so many times I lost count. Here's one: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/36507/ We'll be doing this in Class…
NLR on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 13, 2024
The situation Rudolf Harrier describes is disappointing. But, unfortunately, there is currently an effort to destroy mathematics, though so far…
Jorge Gonzales on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
I got A's in statistics but always hated it. Statistically speaking it was 80% lying with numbers and 20% proving…