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Who In The Regime Ordered The FBI To Raid Trump’s Home?

By Briggs on August 9, 2022 • ( 21 Comments )

Canada’s Science Coronadoom Model Discovers Canada’s Science Saved 800 Thousand Lives

By Briggs on August 8, 2022 • ( 18 Comments )

Summary Against Modern Thought: Extreme Unction

By Briggs on August 7, 2022 • ( 11 Comments )

Experts: Not Showing Ads Leads To 94,867 Fewer Cases Of Obesity In London

By Briggs on August 5, 2022 • ( 14 Comments )

“Leading” Economists Ask The Government To Spend More Money On The Rich

By Briggs on August 4, 2022 • ( 19 Comments )

Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World

By Briggs on August 3, 2022 • ( 22 Comments )

73.2% of Likely Voters Believe Poll Results

By Briggs on January 4, 2008 • ( 2 Comments )

Pollster: Who will you vote for? Civilian: Oh, I don’t know; that guy, the tall one. Pollster: I’ll put you down for Obama. The elections in Iowa are over and the results […]

Oil prices through time: a well-done graph

By Briggs on January 3, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Source: Wall Street Journal This image, shrunk 50% from it’s original size, is a very well-done statistical graph. It shows, in the pale green line, the inflation-adjusted price of a barrel of […]

Frank Furedi on the global warming apocalypse

By Briggs on January 2, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Frank Fuerdi, of Spiked Online, has a delightful article on the daily barrage of panic we hear, in which he says, “In the past year, the threat of doom ? from weather, […]

Calculated Risks: How to know when numbers deceive you: Gerd Gigerenzer

By Briggs on January 1, 2008 • ( 1 Comment )

Gerd Gigerenzer, Simon and Schuster, New York, 310 pp., ISBN 0-7432-0556-1, $25.00 Should healthy women get regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer? The surprising answer, according to this wonderful new book […]

Hurricanes have not increased: misuse of running means

By Briggs on December 30, 2007 • ( 2 Comments )

Most statistics purporting to show that there has been an increase in hurricanes do not use the best statistical methods. I want to highlight one particular method that is often misused, and […]

Were the cannonballs on or off the road first?

By Briggs on December 28, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

There’s something of a controversy whether photographer Roger Fenton placed cannon balls in a road and then took pictures of them. He also took a picture of the same road cleared of […]

Will Smith on reprogramming Hitler

By Briggs on December 27, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

Roger Kimball, in his blog, has an entry on the actor Will Smith’s “Reprogramming Hitler” comments. The subject is benevolence. It is well worth reading. A quote: “The Australian philosopher David Stove […]

How many false studies in medicine are published every year?

By Briggs on December 26, 2007 • ( 8 Comments )

Many, even most, studies that contain a statistical component use frequentist, also called classical, techniques. The gist of those methods is this: data is collected, a probability model for that data is […]

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