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The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book

By Briggs on September 28, 2023 • ( 12 Comments )

The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.

By Briggs on September 27, 2023 • ( 10 Comments )

The Deadly Rise Of The Science Enforcers

By Briggs on September 26, 2023 • ( 21 Comments )

Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air

By Briggs on September 25, 2023 • ( 13 Comments )

All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False

By Briggs on September 22, 2023 • ( 13 Comments )

The Closer To REALITY, The Closer To Reality

By Briggs on September 21, 2023 • ( 5 Comments )

FBI Homicide Statistics: What Are You Most Likely To Be Killed With?

By Briggs on July 3, 2010 • ( 16 Comments )

It’s the start of a long weekend and the time for a diversion. It’s the fourth of July weekend and our lesson is: if you older than 50, beware strangers bearing fireworks. […]

Siena Presidential Scholar President Rankings: Are They Biased?

By Briggs on July 2, 2010 • ( 16 Comments )

The Siena Research Institute asked 238 presidential scholars to rank each president from 1 (best) to worst (43) in nineteen different categories, plus one overall ranking. A complete list of the rankings […]

In Defense of World Cup Enjoyment: A Response to Dalrymple

By Briggs on July 1, 2010 • ( 12 Comments )

The much loved, and surely respected, Theodore Dalrymple does not like soccer. He says of soccer fans, “Try as I might to expunge the thought from my mind that this enthusiasm is […]

In Defense of Dogmatism

By Briggs on June 30, 2010 • ( 6 Comments )

In so far as I have a coherent philosophy of statistics, I hope it is “robust” enough to cope in principle with the whole of statistics, and sufficiently undogmatic not to imply […]

Tricky Probability Problem: Chance of Two Sons, One Born on Tuesday?

By Briggs on June 29, 2010 • ( 89 Comments )

Thanks to reader Matt Lewis who sent me this link. Martin Gardner, may he rest in peace, gave us a delicious probability problem: Suppose that Mrs Smith has two children, at least […]

No Replay In Soccer: Sepp Blatter, Hold Strong!

By Briggs on June 28, 2010 • ( 25 Comments )

Hold the line, Sepp. Don’t buckle under the pressure, which now is intense and hot, but soon will be slack and not even tepid. We do not need to let replay “technology”—the […]

Statistics as Beauty; Global Warming Miscellany; SATs Biased?; More

By Briggs on June 27, 2010 • ( 8 Comments )

Statistics is Beautiful? From reader Yeah, Yeah comes a link to a Wired article which assures us we should “Learn the Language of Data.” It’s not a pretty language, but it can […]

More Bad Music; Class Wrap-Up; Go USA

By Briggs on June 26, 2010 • ( 15 Comments )

Way Behind Back Thanks to everybody who stuck through the lectures, such as they were, for the last two weeks. I wrote these “lessons” over about a twenty-minute period each morning as […]

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