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Next Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial Update!

Next time somebody asks you "What's the Probability of X", where X is any proposition, say this: there is no such probability. It doesn't exist. "Briggs, what's the probability of…

Statistics

Black Coffee Drinkers Are Sadistic Psychos: It’s Science!

Headline New study says you might be a psychopath if you like black coffee A new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria says that people who drink their…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update XLII — With Homework Assigned!

Item Diversity Is Not a Threat: Study Links Low Intelligence to Fear of Gay Lifestyle A new study from researchers at University of Queensland, Australia, has identified that those with…

Statistics

Quack Quack: 25% of Students “Traumatized” By 2016 Election

Headline 25% of students say they were traumatized by the 2016 election, study says A quarter of students found the 2016 so traumatic they now report symptoms of PTSD, according…

Philosophy

On Demonic Possession

Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city…

Statistics

Cornell Professor Exposes His Wee P-values One Too Many Times: All P-values Are P-Hacking

The over-production of wee p-values led to the downfall of Cornell Professor Brian Wansink, who is being made to retire (with what we can guess is a comfortable "package"). We…

Culture

Western Colonialism Did Some Good

Those who lived where the Aztecs once ruled must thank God for Western colonialism. If it wasn't for the glorious religion of the Spanish, Mesoamerican governments might still be cutting…

Statistics

A Case Of Bad Statistics In An IQ-Intelligence Study

We're going to soon talk more about "IQ" and "intelligence". I'm working on a more in-depth article on the subject to carefully explicate the vast over-certainties I see on "both…

A Flood Of Evidence: From God To Noah To Hume To Nobody – William M. Briggs on Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Ending The Tyranny Of Parameters!July 17, 2024
[…] which somehow—nobody knows how—act on parameters of probability models. Readers who got through this paper will understand this critique.…
The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2 – William M. Briggs on There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1July 17, 2024
[…] We continue our series on the works of David Stove by picking up where we left off with the…
Briggs on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Hagfish, Yes, I'd say entry level, for those who have had some usual math training. Which is not most people,…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 16, 2024
More? What more fame and riches could there be for the Statistician to the Stars?! No sir, what I mean…
Paul murphy on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 16, 2024
1 - re hagfish response: for fame and riches you need to say stuff lots of people believe in ways…