We continue our Thanksgiving week of pleasant stories, today with a guest post by Jim Fedako. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just […]
This, apparently, is the first draft of Donald Moss’s peer-reviewed paper “On Having Jewishness”, the final eventually appearing in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The original Abstract in full: Jewishness […]
Hear Briggs Speak Free! Where by “Free” I mean you pay my expenses. Here are the details. Hear the One And Only William M. Briggs The Statisticians to the Stars! speak on […]
Coming Soon! I’ve started a series called “What This-or-That Technique Really Is”. First up is regression. It would have shown today, but—can you guess?—it isn’t finished. I made the mistake of also […]
Who said Finns don’t have a sense of humor? One of Finland’s very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and congress negotiating […]
From the storied Halls of Science comes an important new study, here abstracted from the Asian Journal of Andrology1. I apologize for the length of this excerpt, but it is necessary you […]
Due to overwhelming demand, today’s column is a classic reprint. This originally appeared on 18 January 2008. The headlines of today’s New York Daily News is CURSES! It seems the New York […]
By Tim Murray and William Briggs You obviously need to score runs to win baseball games, and buying better hitters does this for a team. But you also need to keep your […]
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