Search Results for “polls” – William M. Briggs

Why The Polls Are Wrong: Updates

This was originally written for a normie audience. See updates below. Polls Predict Biden On the evening of October 29th, The Economist updated their poll-based election forecast model. It gave…

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The Verdict

I know I said no posts Friday, unless events. This was an event. I figured maybe folks wanted to discuss the matter. Here are my guesses. I hold them with…

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Aella Girl’s Curious Spinning Circle Results: Why Do The Probabilities Match The Bets?

Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, Gab. Something fun on a lazy day. I was asked to comment on this tweet: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1594144435000213505 Before we get to it, and if…

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Researchers Who Accept Regime Funding Should Disclose Their Conflict Of Interest

Shocking report in science money news came out last week. Seems "Six fossil fuel companies funneled more than $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010…

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Panel Of Scientists To Vote On Official Disinformation, Official Truths

One of the things you're sick of reading, and I'm tired of writing, is that if there is such a thing as Official Disinformation, there must necessarily be Official Truth,…

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Professor’s Long-Accurate Presidential Election Model Picks Biden. How Do We Judge This Model?

How impressive does this headline sound: "Forecaster who's predicted every presidential winner correctly for 40 YEARS reveals who he thinks will win 2024 election"? We'll use this to look at…

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Remarks On Pew’s Polarized Partisan Poll

Pew has a large survey out with the title "In a Politically Polarized Era, Sharp Divides in Both Partisan Coalitions: Partisanship remains biggest factor in public's political values." I have…

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The Non-Wisdom Of Crowds And Voting

This post first appeared in modified form on 29 Januarty 2014. It also appears (also modified) in Chapter 4 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Have you heard of Mesd-su-Re?…

Johnno on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 26, 2024
JH, why are you confused? Briggs' conclusion easily follows through. Are you deliberately trying to act confused? Or are you…
Heresolong on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Unfortunately I don't have any more details. It just stopped working. Oh well. Substance mirror works though so I'll just…
THVRSDAY AFTERNOON EDITION | BIG PULPIT on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
[…] News, Punditry, and Analysis: RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, Catholic – William M. Briggs, Ph.D. Evangelization: Hope for the…
BDavi52 on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 25, 2024
Rudolph H. Sounds like a wonderful solution to the 'life makes me anxious' problem. AI tells me what to do...and…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Paul, Just like math, like analytics. No experimental debunking.