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Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong Way
November 20, 2025
Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says Researcher
November 19, 2025
On That “Bombshell German Study” That “Exposes the PCR Test Fraud That Locked Down the World”
November 18, 2025
Masking Morality With Science: Men Pretending To Be Women In Sports
November 17, 2025
Why Study Probability?
November 13, 2025
The Dysgenics Of IVF
November 12, 2025
In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s Argument
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Academics Debate Which Term Best Describes Those Who Love (in that way) Their Pillows
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Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data
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Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims
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Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World
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Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education Causes Mass Squealing
November 3, 2025
Stay The Course: Have Some Class
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Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers
October 29, 2025
UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!
October 28, 2025
Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970s
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Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right Way
October 23, 2025
The Triumph Of The Feminine
October 22, 2025
At What Point Does Transsexualism Become A Conservative Value?
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The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had
October 20, 2025
Class 69: Why Parameters Don’t Exist
October 16, 2025
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Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong Way

Posted by By Briggs November 20, 2025
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Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says Researcher

Posted by By Briggs November 19, 2025
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What New Laws Criminalizing “Hate Speech” Really Mean
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What New Laws Criminalizing “Hate Speech” Really Mean

Yesterday we investigated the I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy, which is invoked when academic Experts, baffled their theories are not as loved by others as by themselves, try to explain…
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy

There is a special kind of argument you hear only from academic Experts. Non-academic non-Experts never use it; or, if they do, I've not seen any example (beyond parroting AEs).…
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What To Do About Black Crime?
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What To Do About Black Crime?

Note: This blog is mirrored at Substack for those who prefer that format. Here is a video from late last week, a common kind, a kind which you have seen…
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More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving
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More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving

Want to hear a great joke about our burgeoning Expertocracy? Rochelle Walensky still has her job. Hilarious! Not as funny as England's Experts proposing those under 25 can't drive their…
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If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?
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If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?

Update See the Twitter thread (and account) for many more examples. NOBODY has been able to find a word yet that Experts haven't tied to "climate change." Got an email…
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Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick
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Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick

It's not certain---where I take that word in its strict sense---that the men on our side of Reality are right about how to gain and keep health. Should you slonk…
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How The Laws Of Physics Lie
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How The Laws Of Physics Lie

The title is Nancy Cartwright's, from her book of the same name, and from an article which forms Chapter 3, "Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?" No, she…
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On Why That “In Defense of Merit in Science” Paper Will Fail In Its Worthy Goal
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On Why That “In Defense of Merit in Science” Paper Will Fail In Its Worthy Goal

You might have heard of the peer-reviewed article "In Defense of Merit in Science" by "intellectual dark web" members like Peter Boghossian and old-school lefties like Jerry Coyne, John McWhorter…
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  1. Briggs on Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong WayNovember 21, 2025

    Uncle Mike, By a strange coincidence, you hit upon the very example I used in the class after Thanksgiving. Pr("loaded"…

  2. Uncle Mike on Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong WayNovember 21, 2025

    What if you rolled a six-sided die 60 times and scored a 10 for each side (1-10, 2-10, 3-10, 4-10,…

  3. Ronald Conneely on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherNovember 20, 2025

    Great analysis as usual but be careful, you are bordering on that dreded (R----t) area. Would hate to lose your…

  4. Williis Eschenbach on Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong WayNovember 20, 2025

    Thanks, Matt, that's what I figured, just wanted to verify it. w.

  5. Briggs on Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong WayNovember 20, 2025

    Willis, Sure, you can change the model to remove the probability leakage. Careful modelers would. The vast majority would not,…

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