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IQ Is Not Intelligence
May 28, 2025
What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?
May 27, 2025
Class 51: Bayes Is Only A Formula
May 22, 2025
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A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food
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What Are The Chances…A Women Survives Cancer 4 Times To Be Killed By “Random” Bullet?
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Class 50: Independence Versus Irrelevance
May 15, 2025
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Eggs and ‘PFAS-Easter’ or Selling Fear on the Day of Resurrection — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
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Academics Call Pregnancy A Disease
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Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In Models
May 8, 2025
Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?
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Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical Statistics
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AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor Lie
May 5, 2025
Class 48: What Is A Model?
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I’m Going To Sue Scientists Who Gave Me Apoplexy Over Claims Of Climate Liability
April 30, 2025
Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money
April 29, 2025
The Sun Made To Set On The British Empire – Via Science!
April 28, 2025
Class 47: Billions Of Models!
April 24, 2025
A New Physics Arises: Irreducible by Federico Faggin Reviewed
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested
April 21, 2025
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IQ Is Not Intelligence

Posted by By Briggs May 28, 2025
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What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?

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On The Cubs’ & Trump’s Victories, Nate Silver’s Predictions & All That

https://twitter.com/ThaRightStuff/status/794045050753794048 Some crow is presumably being eaten by Nate Silver and the folks at FiveThirtyEight.com this fine morning. I recommend they bake it into a pie (which I learnt from…
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No Matter Who Wins, We’re Doomed — WMBriggs Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7T0XUOVS2g Download MP3. Note: This was written and recorded last Wednesday, before DickiLeaks et alia, but due to other events I had to delay posting it until today. The return…
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What Russia Wants, Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Editor's note: This is Part Final of a two-part series. Read Part I. So let me ask you; What is the biggest mountain in Russia? Mt. Athos, of course. Wait.…
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A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability

Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…
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Media Lying With Polls? Is The Pope…Er…Ah, Never Mind

Today's post is at The Stream: Be Skeptical of the Polls: Is the media lying to boost Hillary? Note: I'm putting the Summary Against Modern Thought Sunday series on hiatus…
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Why Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer

Opening sentence of the abstract in the peer-reviewed paper "When Meat Gets Personal, Animals' Minds Matter Less: Motivated Use of Intelligence Information in Judgments of Moral Standing" in Social Psychological…
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One World Without Borders Would Lead To Tyranny

Hillary, in her own words, said "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders". She said it, but it's not clear if she believes it.…
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Stream: Satanism, Child Torture, Mind Control — What Is On Hollywood’s Mind?

Today's post is at the Stream: Satanism, Child Torture, Mind Control -- What Is On Hollywood's Mind? Who's up for some child torture? No, seriously. Wouldn't strapping a boy into…
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  1. NLR on IQ Is Not IntelligenceMay 28, 2025

    As far as angelic intelligence goes, one popular idea is that the angels form a linear order. One reason for…

  2. Paul Murphy on IQ Is Not IntelligenceMay 28, 2025

    Charlton/Briggs What I think you're both saying is that "intelligence" is both largely undefined and not scalar. i.e. if you…

  3. Zundfolge on IQ Is Not IntelligenceMay 28, 2025

    I've often explained it like this (which usually confuses non-car people more than it helps). IQ is to intelligence as…

  4. Briggs on IQ Is Not IntelligenceMay 28, 2025

    Bruce, I have failed in making myself clear. Not uncommon. My alternate view is something more akin to Horn's theory…

  5. Paul Murphy on IQ Is Not IntelligenceMay 28, 2025

    Very au currant given all the AI stuff going on - but see my feb 7/2007 zdnet column (on my…

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