William M. Briggs

Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0

Two Weeks Beginning tomorrow, and lasting a semisolid two weeks, will be my class at Cornell. A Masters "How To" in statistics, directed towards MBA-like personages. An impossible task. No…

Culture Statistics

Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?

Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last…

Culture Philosophy

Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…

Statistics

Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update

Concentration Camps To Re-educate Deniers Next? It's time to make public examples of those that disagree with reporter, and non-science-educated Richard Glover's view of climate change. He would have skeptics…

Statistics

Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime

All p-values are not created equal, nor equally. Use one inappropriately, and you can land in jail. Just like Scott "Baron" (I'm guessing) Harkonen, former CEO of InterMune, a company…

Fun

Caught With My Pants Down

No, not like Andrew "Stuffed Shorts" Weiner. I mean literally, as in the picture below, taken while walking across the Manhattan Bridge. A guy on a bike, who I later…

Philosophy

Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story

"There is no heaven; it's a fairy story," said Stephen Hawking to The Guardian. And since the wheelchair-bound physicist is famous, and known to be clever (despite bedevilment by disease),…

Book review Culture

Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to…

Johnno on The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then SuddenlyOctober 31, 2024
Johnno please read the Apostle Paul’s writings in the Bible. He had nothing to do with Peter’s ministry. You sure…
mdub@peak.org on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Coincidentally (if you believe in coincidences) today's headline is Biden Bites Babies. Spooky.
C. Cotterman on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Thanks for watching this movie so I don't have to.
Paul Murphy on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Yikes - I have not seen the movie and now certainly won't .. but nice writing!
Brian (bulaoren) on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Death is probably the most dramatic and understandable example of entropy.

William M. Briggs

Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Reviewed

The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly

The Science Of Transitioning Children

Class 26: Randomization Does Nothing

Addicted To Drug — Statistics

Of Course Neo-Darwinian Evolution By “Random” Mutation Is Wrong

If Trump Wins, Will There Be Chaos?

Class 25: Not A Chance

Trust The Models: Rare Candy Podcast

NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!

Science: Even Monkeys Can’t Stand Looking At Kamala, Yet They Predict She Wins

Happy 4th Anniversary, Price of Panic!

Class 24: What Is Randomness?

Crime Issue Reveals the Real Source of Nation’s Political Divide — Guest Post by ST Karnick

The Arrogance Of Experts As Conferred by Credentials

The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For Voting

Men Are Better Than Women

Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)

We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Scientists Claim Keeping Men From Girls Locker Rooms Causes Men To Commit Suicide

Negative Evidence