William M. Briggs

Probability Thought Experiment With NNT: Reader Question

From reader Ernst, this interesting probability/statistics question. First, NNT = number needed to treat, which is, stealing from this site to save time, "The Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is…

Statistics

Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners

Today's post title is stolen from a paper by the same name "Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners: Do Trends Vary by Gender, Race, and Class?" in Gender &…

Fun

Name Four Novels That Helped Shape You

The tile of the post is from Twitter's Theophilus Chilton, who started a tag game saying "Name 4 fictional novels that helped to shape you, then tag 4 other people…

Culture Statistics

Experts Mystified Why Gender Dysphoria Increasing

Here's the headline: Cases of gender dysphoria in Swedish teenage girls up 1,500 percent since 2008. The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare says that the number of cases…

Culture

The Meat Paradox Makes You Want To Slap Vegans: Expert

Here's a needless headline: The hidden biases that drive anti-vegan hatred. There are nothing hidden about the bias against vegans. People love to moan that vegans are annoying: research has…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Believe Only What’s True

Previous post. It all comes down to faith. THAT THROUGH DIVINE LAW MEN ARE BOUND TO THE RIGHT FAITH 1 From this it becomes clear that men are bound to…

Culture

The Week In Doom — No True Scandinavian Edition

Item Tyranny Today in BC Supreme Court I heard one of the scariest things ever: a judge ordering a father to not call his female child his daughter. The judge…

Culture

The Problem of an Excess of Educated Men

Leo K, one of our regular readers, gave us a link which led to the Lenore O'Boyle paper "The Problem of an Excess of Educated Men in Western Europe, 1800-1850"…

Hagfish Bagpipe on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
The earth is a spinning ball orbiting the sun in a limitless vacuum. Maybe. But maybe not. After seeing how…
hudbwu on Jung’s Synchronicity & CoincidenceJuly 15, 2025
> you have posited that nothing has become a cause, and it is impossible the absence of anything can become…
Phil R on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
My earlier post was longish and probably wasn't that clear. I think two of the problems are a lack of…
Polybius on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
Now that I have thought more about this I think one of our biggest problems in all fields from climate…
C. P. Benischek on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
Evolution. As Stephen Jay Gould once sort of said, the lack of a single example in the fossil record of…

William M. Briggs

Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence

Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Class 57: The Second Best Model

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea

What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study

The Unseen Bias In All Science

The Sad End Of Radio

Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!

Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification

England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women

On The Probability Of God

Class 55: Models Vs Reality

AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output

The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition

The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club Example

Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters

Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores

AI & The Dilemma Of Technology

Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence

Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Probability Thought Experiment With NNT: Reader Question

Cohort Increases In Sex With Same-Sex Partners

Name Four Novels That Helped Shape You

Experts Mystified Why Gender Dysphoria Increasing

The Meat Paradox Makes You Want To Slap Vegans: Expert

Summary Against Modern Thought: Believe Only What’s True

The Week In Doom — No True Scandinavian Edition

The Problem of an Excess of Educated Men

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification