William M. Briggs

Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised

The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…

Philosophy

Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Do not…

Culture

Resolved: Women’s Suffrage Caused More Harm Than Good

If your first reaction upon reading the title was "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!" or "Frrrpppkwiliq boahh boahh boahh!" or some variant of "%&*&^%$##!", then you have discovered the meaning of sacrilegious. Congratulations! You…

Culture Statistics

Gallup: More Adults Identifying As LGBT(…), Which Implies Even More Will

For the purposes of full disclosure (as they say), I self-identify as a yak. Thus far I am the only known Yak-American. But once the advantages of yakitude become better…

Culture

Orthodox Rabbi Suggests Adam & Eve ‘Black Transgender Refugees’

Trouble with words, is that if you're not diligent corruption can set in and cause a label to become garbled or meaningless. Such happened with conservative, which once meant "upholder…

Culture Philosophy

Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Today's discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in "The Right Religion", which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature…

Book review Culture

Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed

I want everybody to read Anthony Esolen's Out of the Ashes. Buy it if you can; at least borrow it. Libraries still exist in many places, and some of them…

Culture Statistics

Science of Global Warming Reduced to Raw Emotion at People’s Climate March: Updates

The Summa Contra Gentiles sequence will return next and not this week as announced last week. Why? Because I forgot the zombies were going to take to the streets---again. Like…

John Pate on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025
...and another thing: in Fisher's works first understanding the distribution of what you're measuring in population you are sampling from…
JH on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025
Since your definition of p-values is not entirely correct, FYI - understanding p-values and different meanings of p-value
John Pate on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025
To be fair to R.A. Fisher he warned people were over-enthusiastic about applying the tools he provided. He wasn't as…
McChuck on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 21, 2025
"Faster, pussycat! Kill! Kill!" You can't repeat the mantra enough.
gareth on The Key Role Of Probability & Chance In ScienceAugust 20, 2025
"I have answered three six questions, and that is enough," Said his father Briggs; "don't give yourself airs! Do you…

William M. Briggs

Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!

Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure

The Key Role Of Probability & Chance In Science

On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It

Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? II

Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In Science

Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat

Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic

Class 60: Does This Guy Have ESP? 1

Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science

Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating Meat

New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest Bounty

Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World

The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

Only Credentialed Artists Can Appreciate This

Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting

A Week’s Vacation

Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds