Briggs

Goldman Sachs To Require Diversity On Boards Before Opening Money Bags

Diversity Oaths, of a sort, have, as I predicted, spilled out of academia and into the boardroom. Here's the headline: Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight…

Statistics

New Research: “We know the jail system harms the public rather than keeping us safe”

Sandhya Kajeepeta, who, like myself, boasts of a "(grating) Michigan accent", tweeted "We know the jail system harms the public rather than keeping us safe. In this new @AMJPublicHealth paper…

Statistics

The Only Thing That Has Fat Tails Are Rappers: More On The PP Fallacy

Evidence for an event cannot be the horrific consequences of that event. Suppose we're interested in the probability of a Y = "Horrific plague". Since nothing has a probability, we…

Statistics

Taleb Chastises Calm Journalist, Advises Precautionary Panic To Coronavirus

Background Some blue check journalist named Ferris Jabr, in a raw display of sobriety for a member of the Indigo Cheka, said None of this is to belittle what is…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Divine Law Orders Man Toward God

Previous post. Next week we begin what the laws themselves are. THAT THE DIVINE LAW PRINCIPALLY ORDERS MAN TOWARD GOD 1 From this conclusion we may gather what it is…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Transanity Update Edition

Item LGBTQ education is now mandatory in N.J. schools For a high school history assignment on the Holocaust, Olivia Loesch chose the pink triangle, used by the Nazis to persecute…

Culture

We Don’t Want Ideological Diversity

I realized after I wrote this that it could stand for my mandatory Diversity statement. We want Truth and Reality to be represented in academia. We certainly don't need racial…

Statistics

On Cause In Probability Models

Note This post originally ran 11 June 2019 under the title "When Cause Is Not A Cause -- Another Anti-P-Value Argument". The post itself is extracted and modified from this…

William Wallace on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
See the Python crew in Meaning of Life when the organ donor man shows up at the home to collect.…
Brad Hewitt on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
Taking a step closer to making Michael Chrichton's "Coma", a reality.
JH on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
This post reminds me of one of the arguments against the death penalty: the risk of executing an innocent person.
Brian (bulaoren) on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
See Monty Python and the Holy Grail; "Bring out your dead".
The True Nolan on New Definition Of Death To Increase Organ Harvest BountyAugust 4, 2025
Reports claim Canada plans to euthanize 15 million citizens in the next 20 years. Well, over 20 years? 20 years…