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"…

Rich on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 18, 2026
Perhaps she and her friends would accept being paid according to the indigenous mathematics of crows who can, apparently, count…
Cary D Cotterman on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026
Lunatics like this Kather are well-paid and get great benefits for putting out hooey like that. People pay a lot…
Brian (bulaoren) on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026
Back in the early 1990s, a talking Barbie doll offended a lot of feminists by saying "math class is hard".…
Uncle Mike on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026
Hahahaha! Well done. Especially the YT video wherein you can't stop laughing. Me either. It's tragicomic. Old karens, childless, worn…
NLR on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026
The real issue with this is that it is an attempted justification for the studies departments to take over other…

William M. Briggs

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday

Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”

Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves

Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples

The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!

The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?

Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty

How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko

Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

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