Some two and a half years ago I posted this article: “An Infinity of Null Hypotheses — Another Anti-P-Value Argument“. The title is unfortunate; or, rather, the subtitle is. It should have […]

I made this picture for my talk at the first ever public Broken Science event (videos coming soon): Everybody has heard the saying “correlation doesn’t imply causation.” Taken loosely, it seems wrong, […]

Dr B asks a question about what to do about sample sizes and hypotheses after the scourge of p-values and null hypothesis significance testing are recognized for what they are. Dr B […]

Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Anon asks questions about models (I added the bold question brackets and the link). Pay attention most closely to [Q2], which is our […]

“Say, Briggs. Since you’re Statistician to the Stars!, explain to me how I can tell if two means are different in a simple way that even I can understand.” You got two […]

We last did third-hand smoking back in 2011. Even then I didn’t think the concept would far. How silly can you get? Pretty silly. Thanks to Dan Hughes we have the peer-reviewed […]

The only thing right about that new Sturgis Biker paper everybody is talking about is the opening quotation from somebody calling himself Smash Mouth (asterisks original): “Now we’re all here together tonight. […]

I was asked this question the other day: “Is science becoming stupider?” I was forced to answer this way: “Boy, howdy! Science will be lucky to reach stupid the end of the […]