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How To Gamble If You Must

By Briggs on January 30, 2023 • ( 5 Comments )

Pfizer’s Gain-Of-Lethality Research Sting: Clown-World Contagion Comedy

By Briggs on January 27, 2023 • ( 24 Comments )

We Put Some Uncomfortable Questions To Those Who Say There Is A Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”

By Briggs on January 26, 2023 • ( 8 Comments )

The Woke Will Never Let Us Go: Comments On Anton’s Secession Dialogue

By Briggs on January 25, 2023 • ( 23 Comments )

What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?

By Briggs on January 24, 2023 • ( 19 Comments )

Women Firemen To Be Allowed To Battle Fires With Feelings In Connecticut

By Briggs on January 23, 2023 • ( 14 Comments )

Beer: alcohol, calories, and carbs

By Briggs on December 11, 2007 • ( 11 Comments )

Which beer style has the most calories? In general: porters. The least: lager, the style of beer with which you are probably most familiar. Budweiser, Miller, Coors, the majority of all mass-market […]

Never use bar charts! Case study #1

By Briggs on December 10, 2007 • ( 3 Comments )

This graphic comes from the New York Times article “Social Security Disability Cases Last Longer as Backlog Rises.” It obviously intends to show how applications have increased since 1998. This is a […]

How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #2

By Briggs on December 9, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

That’s a fairly typical ad, which is now running on TV, and which is also on Glad’s web site. Looks like a clear majority would rather buy Glad’s fine trash bag than […]

Why most statistics don’t mean what you think they do: Part II.

By Briggs on December 8, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

In Part I of this post, we started with a typical problem: which of two advertising campaigns was “better” in terms of generating more sales. Campaigns A and B were each tested […]

Why most statistics don’t mean what you think they do: Part I.

By Briggs on December 7, 2007 • ( 2 Comments )

Here’s a common, classical statistics problem. Uncle Ted’s chain of Kill ’em and Grill ’em Venison Burgers tested two ad campaigns, A and B, and measured the sales of sausage sandwiches for […]

Hurricanes have not increased in the North Atlantic

By Briggs on December 6, 2007 • ( 2 Comments )

My paper on this subject will finally appear in the Journal of Climate soon. You can see it’s status (temporarily, anyway) at this link. You can download the paper here. The gist […]

The Algebra of Probable Inference: Richard T. Cox

By Briggs on December 6, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )

This is a lovely, lovely book and I can’t believe it has taken me this long to find and read it (November 2005: I was lead to this book via Jaynes, who […]

How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #1

By Briggs on December 6, 2007 • ( 2 Comments )

In the Tuesday, 6 November 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Pfizer took out a full-page ad encouraging people to “Ask your doctor” about Lipitor, a drug which claims to lower […]

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