Skip to content
Do Your Homework for Class
BLOG EMAILS ARE NOT BEING SENT: Checking into it

William M. Briggs

Statistician to the Stars!

  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Classic Posts
  • FREE CLASS
  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Classic Posts
  • FREE CLASS
Latest Articles
Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting
January 13, 2026
Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose Money
January 12, 2026
Class 75: A Gentle Introduction To Time Series
January 8, 2026
The Consent Fallacy
January 7, 2026
On Laws Banning Hacking Women’s Genitals & Imposing Beliefs
January 6, 2026
Register Your Predictions For 2026!
January 5, 2026
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026
How Did We Do In Our 2025 Predictions?
December 31, 2025
Why The Drake Equation Fails
December 30, 2025
Canada Invents New Euphemism For Doctor Killings
December 29, 2025
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025
Complete List Of All Moral & Ethical Questions Answered By Science
December 24, 2025
Why British & EU Rulers Are Juicing War With Russia
December 23, 2025
Climate Models
December 22, 2025
Is Powerball A “Fair Game”?
December 20, 2025
No Class: But Here’s Some Homework
December 18, 2025
On The Form Of Species: ‘Dance To The Tune Of Life’ by Denis Noble Reviewed
December 16, 2025
How To Tell How Much Of “IQ” Is Inherited & How Much Is Environment
December 15, 2025
Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes
December 11, 2025
Academic Argues For Permissibility of Cannibalism, You Racist
December 10, 2025
I Finally Read James Lindsay’s Manifesto (Yes, He Has A Manifesto)
December 9, 2025
Posted inStatistics

Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting

Posted by By Briggs January 13, 2026
Continue Reading
Posted inStatistics

Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose Money

Posted by By Briggs January 12, 2026
Continue Reading
Posted inCulture

Equality Motivates The Refugee Crisis

Nick Land, about whose views more in a moment, points us to Damon Linker about how Angela Merkel's German airplane has imperiled Europe. A real Messerschmitt. About the details you…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Creatures & The Universe’s Perfection

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. Why are…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy

The Dangers Of Sam Harris’s Anti-Free Will View

Received this email from Justin. I've edited it only to correct the typos my enemies placed in my Inbox. Hi William, I am contacting you because you have a different…
Read More
Posted inBook review Statistics

Preface to Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

The book is now at a 15% discount at Amazon (I apologize for the price). Buy today. And buy again tomorrow! This will be linked permanently on the book's official…
Read More
Posted inCulture

Islam Asleep, Islam Awake — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Editor's note: Watt's previous essay generated quite a bit of controversy. Watt answers those criticisms here. As is clear, Erdogan has at least made the best of the coup. Well,…
Read More
Posted inCulture

“I Believe In Science” — Which Is Not Believing In Much

Today's post is at The Stream: Hillary Believes in Science -- Which Isn't Saying Much. You just knew it was going to be a good night. Hillary shined on that…
Read More
Posted inCulture

Pope: If I Speak Of Islamic Violence, I Must Speak Of Catholic Violence

The holy Koran says (sura 2 at 191) "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The First Cause Of The Distinction Of Things

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. This week:…
Read More

Posts pagination

Previous page 1 … 364 365 366 367 368 … 704 Next page
Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,341 other subscribers
Tweets
My Tweets
  1. Cary D Cotterman on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    No news source is perfect. Fox openly owns their conservative point of view. NPR lies about being unbiased. Even with…

  2. Tars Tarkas on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    "(I have in the queue a story on confirmation bias of academic Experts that confirms my bias that academic Experts…

  3. Stan on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    Around 2013, I obtained all death certificate data from the state of California for the years 2000-2012. I posted on…

  4. Briggs on Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose MoneyJanuary 13, 2026

    Anon. I believe you'll find they are the same. I did a little shorthand by first taking the absolute value…

  5. Anonymous on Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose MoneyJanuary 13, 2026

    Errata: your moneyline formula should have (x - 100) in the denominator for -x.

Categories
  • Book review
  • Class
  • Culture
  • Fun
  • Philosophy
  • Podcast
  • SAMT
  • Statistics
Archives
Meta
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
Post You Might Like
Posted inPhilosophy
There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1
Posted by By Briggs July 9, 2024
Posted inPhilosophy
Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs
Posted by By Briggs June 26, 2024
Posted inPhilosophy
Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
Posted by By Briggs June 4, 2024
Posted inPhilosophy
The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
Posted by By Briggs May 28, 2024
January 2026
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Dec    
Copyright 2026 — William M. Briggs. All rights reserved. Bloglo WordPress Theme
Scroll to Top