This is mainly a catch up post for new readers who won’t recall the old days. Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, or Gab. I’m late on this! STATE OF THE […]
The Great Global Warming—A.K.A. “Climate Change”—A.K.A. “Climate Emergency”—Post!
How I Became A Renegade Scientist
This old picture of myself and a fellow outlaw is given as proof of my deep anti-social propensities. A friend of mine, long ago, would sit and listen to George Carlin’s FM […]
CDC Flashes Its Wee P At Us In Thin Effort To Uphold The Cult of the Mask: Coronavirus Update LVI
EXPERTS FLASH THEIR WEE P Masks are the uniform of the effeminate. You’ll have heard by now of CDC’s latest mask study, in which grown experts flash their wee p-values at us […]
Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent
Editor’s note I have strong views on statistical “significance”, confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his methods on […]
You Can’t Quantify The Unquantifiable
I stole the picture below from YouGov. A new YouGov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various descriptions to be. YouGov showed respondents a selection of adjectives from […]
Signal + Noise vs. Signal — Important Update
Update I see that I failed below to demonstrate the ubiquity of the problem. So your homework is to search “testing trend time series” and similar terms and discover for yourself. Any […]
Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation
Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and Statistics. Here […]
Do People Really Believe In Chance & The Deadly Sin of Reification?
From our very own JMJ, who asked this in response to an announcement of my new book (read this first): Briggs, how many people how you encountered who need these clarifications? I […]
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