Skip to content
Do Your Homework for Class
BLOG EMAILS ARE NOT BEING SENT: Checking into it
William M. Briggs

Statistician to the Stars!

  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Classic Posts
  • FREE CLASS
  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Classic Posts
  • FREE CLASS
  • Home
  • Philosophy
  • Page 2
How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?

In which we start simple, stay simple, come to Plateau Easy, and the readers begins to wonder why he bothers, which he discovers at the end to his puzzlement. Get…
Read More
There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law

Ready for some Logic 101? Something real easy, I promise. We'll use it in service to show why falsificationism is not that interesting, or useful, and we'll need it in…
Read More
There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability

Rationalists, like those at Less Wrong (think Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander), are prone to fetishsize Bayes theorem, seeing it as the key to all thought. It isn't. Bayes is…
Read More
The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
Posted inBook review Philosophy Statistics

The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved

Let's end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder's book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we'll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and…
Read More
What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute or Gab (to come). From Anon comes the major announcement: "Quside unveils the world’s first Randomness Processing Unit". Quside today unveils its vision…
Read More
What Is A Model? We need to know to test between good and bad science
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

What Is A Model? We need to know to test between good and bad science

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, and Gab. Before we describe what models are in science, it's best to know, and to never forget, that all models only say…
Read More
All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings

Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…
Read More
Probability is Logic
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

Probability is Logic

I was reading a draft of a book our own Fr John Rickert's is working on. Visual Logic: Seeing Classical and Modern Logic: An Introduction, a neat little handbook showing…
Read More

Posts pagination

Previous page 1 2 3 4 … 49 Next page
Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,342 other subscribers
Tweets
My Tweets
  1. gareth on The Triumph Of The FeminineOctober 24, 2025

    Love the picture. Wrong in several ways, but only those with the competence that this lady lacks would notice. I…

  2. At What Point Does Transsexualism Become A Conservative Value? – William M. Briggs on Supreme Court Rules Civil Rights Act Applies To Gender Theory, Sexual “Orientation”October 23, 2025

    […] to “sexual orientation”. That “right” was teased out in 2020 by Neil Gorsuch, who is labeled a conservative. (The…

  3. brad.tittle on Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right WayOctober 23, 2025

    I pull together a bunch of components from primary arms. I put a sight on top. I go to the…

  4. Uncle Mike on The Triumph Of The FeminineOctober 22, 2025

    I've always been appalled by the Lesbians for Abortion lobby. These "gals" don't produce babies (biological truth, Ketanji). So none…

  5. Milton Hathaway on The Triumph Of The FeminineOctober 22, 2025

    I felt an intense stab of searing phantom pain at first sight of the cover photo. I've heard that women…

Categories
  • Book review
  • Class
  • Culture
  • Fun
  • Philosophy
  • Podcast
  • SAMT
  • Statistics
Archives
Meta
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Copyright 2025 — William M. Briggs. All rights reserved. Bloglo WordPress Theme
Scroll to Top