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Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data
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Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data

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Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims

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The Culture Wars Are Over: Reality Routed, Lunatics Victorious

The declaration that the Culture Wars are over and won by the Lunatics, is, I think, true, at least in América del Norte. Reality has lost and is in full…
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Evolutionary Psychologists Claim Religion Is Explained By Energy Use. Here’s Why They’re Wrong

Today's post is at the Stream: Evolutionary Psychologists Claim Religion Is Explained By Energy Use. Here's Why They're Wrong. It has become clear that the common statistical techniques used by…
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Lucky You! All About Luck — WMBriggs Podcast
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Lucky You! All About Luck — WMBriggs Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEz3x8J21Ns Robert Goulet: Time After Time So there's this guy, "J"---and this is a true story, so pay attention. J's doing well, a pillar of his community. Big family, house,…
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A New Kind Of University: An Open Discussion

We agree that the university system is "broken." The reasons why are obvious: ideology and money have so corroded the foundations that a collapse is imminent. These facts naturally lead…
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Reality Made Illegal: Man Ordered To Treat Daughter As Boy

As predicted by Yours Truly, another aspect of Reality has been made illegal. Mentally recall your favorite Orwell quote as you read this headline: "Court orders dad to start treating…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Things Exist Necessarily

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 is…
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Do People Really Believe In Chance & The Deadly Sin of Reification?

From our very own JMJ, who asked this in response to an announcement of my new book (read this first): Briggs, how many people how you encountered who need these…
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The Silliness With Bathroom Laws — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

First of all, the business about going to the restroom of your birth sex is just wrong. Moms have been bringing little boys into the women's room for a long…
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  1. Darin Johnson on Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right WayNovember 9, 2025

    Thank you for your answer, Professor. So the prediction interval is useful for predicting the number of failures among the…

  2. Briggs on Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right WayNovember 8, 2025

    Darin, There is no interval around a probability (with esoteric exceptions not of interest to us). All your evidence is…

  3. Darin Johnson on Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right WayNovember 8, 2025

    I'm struggling to extrapolate this to the case when the thing I'm estimating is a probability. Let's say I observe…

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    I didn't come here for ~two months. Then I come back and ... *shit's gotten weird, son.* o.O At least…

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    Cheers from Florida, land of the ugly beasts known as womanatees. Meritocracy is now Ancient Herstory. Sheesh.

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