William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: How Much You Can See Of God

Previous post. The last note is the most important. HOW THOSE WHO SEE THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE MAY SEE ALL THINGS 1 Since the vision of the divine substance is the…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition

No video this week. Weep and despair! Item Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester…

Culture

Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?

Headline Diners offered two-course meal topped off by DISSECTION of a 'human corpse' A group of dissectors have found a unique way of getting one's "insides out" as they are…

Statistics

What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming

One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…

Statistics

Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!

The paper is "Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians" by Min Qi Wang, Alice F. Yan, and Ralph V. Katz in Annals of…

Class Statistics

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

Query: now that I'm a video master, would people like videos of these lessons? I don't see how they'd help much, but who knows. Let me know below or via…

Culture

Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran

Some Jews asked Christians to stamp the following warning on all Bibles: Warning: Jews Have Rejected Their Messiah. And they asked Muslims to insert this bookplate into every Koran: Muhammad…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others

Previous post. The obvious joke is that it pays to study. THAT ONE BEING IS ABLE TO SEE GOD MORE PERFECTLY THAN ANOTHER 1 Since the mode of operation results…

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William M. Briggs

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove

Marbles!

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!

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Summary Against Modern Thought: How Much You Can See Of God

Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition

Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?

What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming

Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others

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