My dad and I built a coin flipping machine. Then made this video (you might have to click the link): LINK FIXED. Link, because the embedding is not working. https://youtu.be/8XX0iRAN–8 (The double […]
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: Imagine a circle laid flat on a table, with a […]
Probabilities For Unique Events, Like Nuclear War, Exists
This will appear obscure to you. It isn’t. The errors here are fundamental, and cascade all throughout science. They account for, in part, why science has become so bad. The politics are […]
Reader Question: Probability is not real in the sense that real life things are real
Anon writes: Mr. Briggs, I am trying to understand the statement in the title. It [probability] is a measure of uncertainty. It is a measure of what we know or do not […]
Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World
Here’s how the AP climate doom article starts: Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely, a group […]
Proof Probability & Statistics & AI Don’t Discover Cause
Everybody has read, or seen adaptations of, Bram Stocker’s documentation of Dracula, the undead count, unlate of Transylvania. From these pages and films, we all know how to kill a vampire. In […]
There Is No Such Thing As A Fair Coin
Not only is there no such thing as a “fair” coin, there are no “fair” dice, either. Or “fair” anything. Which I shall prove to you. From Khan Academy, a popular, and […]
Why Bayes Is Not The Fix We Need: A Critique of Bayesian Inference and its Application
I’ve pointed out many times some of the weaknesses of traditional statistical practices, and how the routine use of “hypothesis testing” leads to an ever-growing mountain of Broken Science. Some say the […]
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