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Homework #1: Answer part I
A couple of days ago I gave out homework. I asked my loyal readers to count how many people walked by them and to keep track of how many of…
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Stats 101: Chapter 6
It was one of those days yesterday. I got two chapters up, but did not give anybody a way to get them! Here it is These are the last two…
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Predict who will win the US Presidential Race
When you have a chance, please log on to https://www.wmbriggs.com/president.php and guess who will win the election this year. This poll closes on 11:50 pm 14 September 2008. No guessing…
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Still a few days left to guess who will win Presidential race
If you haven't already, please guess who will win the 2008 Presidential race. If you have voted, please do not do so again. We've been running the poll for a…
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Not all uncertainty can be quantified
(This essay will form, when re-written more intelligently, part of Chapter 15, the final Chapter, of my book. Which is coming....soon? The material below is not easy nor brief, folks.…
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Why probability cannot be subjective
A reader recently disputed my condensation of the tenets of Bayesian subjective probability. (I promised a thread on which we could discuss the matter more fully, so here it is.)…
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John McCain will win
I am wrong about a lot of things (see my essay "Let them Fail"), and it is a truism to say that I might be wrong about this, but I…
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Random topics
I use the word "random" in the sense that you did not know what topics I would select today. And I use the word know in its logical sense. On…
