In the United States, we have several major news outlets. On television: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. There are also several national-ish newspapers (and a diminishing number of local […]
Full Disclosure, Anita Dunn, and Fox News: A Fairness Proposal for Journalists
Podcast Lecture #2: Understanding Statistics and Probability
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today’s lecture: Quick review All knowledge is conditional on evidence, which eventually leads back to our intuitions. The steps in an argument that make it valid are also assumed to […]
Podcast Radio Show – Episode #4: Belief in Climate Models
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_14oct2009_0004.mp3[/podcast] On today’s episode: Science and skeptical bloggers A small article in last week’s Science magazine frets that skeptical bloggers are teasing climate scientists over their failed predictions. Bloggers are pointing out […]
F train Blues, Michael Palin is proud, and some misuses of statistics
Just back from my trip. I’ll go through the comments from last week’s posts later today and catch up. Meanwhile, here are a few interesting stories. That F’ing train! You’ve heard me […]
Podcast Lecture #1: Understanding Statistics and Probability
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0001.mp3[/podcast] First lecture: I’m away to a conference this week, and so thought it would be fun to start a lecture series Understanding Statistics and Probability (this is posting automatically—I’ll be answering […]
Podcast Radio Show – Episode #3: Call the Health Police!
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_07oct2009_0003.mp3[/podcast] On today’s episode: What is health? Herr Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore: “a degree of adaptation to the organism’s environment so nearly complete that there is no irritation.” Health insurance is […]
The Case of the Rape-rape Patrol: a 17th precinct mini-mystery
We last met Officer Hannigan and Sergeant Fitzgerald in The Case of the Missing Global Warming and The Age of Stupid “Sarge, we got a call.” Officer Hannigan motioned to Sergeant Fitzgerald […]
About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness
What’s to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their way? That’s […]
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