Statistics – Page 118 – William M. Briggs

Next Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial Update!

Next time somebody asks you "What's the Probability of X", where X is any proposition, say this: there is no such probability. It doesn't exist. "Briggs, what's the probability of…

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Making P-values Weer To Achieve Significance Won’t Help

Mini-paper out in JAMA by Matt Vassar and pals: "Evaluation of Lowering the P Value Threshold for Statistical Significance From .05 to .005 in Previously Published Randomized Clinical Trials in…

Class Statistics

The Controversy Over Randomization And Balance In Clinical Trials

There was a paper a short while back, "Why all randomised controlled trials produce biased results", by Alexander Krauss, in the Annals of Medicine. Raised some academic eyebrows. Krauss says,…

Culture Statistics

An Illustration Of Type I Scientism

Regular readers will recall there are two Types of Scientism. Type I is belief that Science is needed to verify commonplace truths. Type II is the belief that only Science…

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Black Coffee Drinkers Are Sadistic Psychos: It’s Science!

Headline New study says you might be a psychopath if you like black coffee A new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria says that people who drink their…

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Quack Quack: 25% of Students “Traumatized” By 2016 Election

Headline 25% of students say they were traumatized by the 2016 election, study says A quarter of students found the 2016 so traumatic they now report symptoms of PTSD, according…

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You Can’t Quantify The Unquantifiable

I stole the picture below from YouGov. A new YouGov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various descriptions to be. YouGov showed respondents a selection of…

Culture Statistics

Proof Education Is Bad For You

Headline The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America First-time mothers are older in big cities and on the coasts, and younger in rural areas and in…

tired citizen on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 16, 2025
Other than complete separation - which Mr. Briggs astutely points out will never happen, there is no solution. They are…
NLR on On The Myths Of ScientismSeptember 15, 2025
That was a good article by Grothendieck. I'm glad he mentioned so-called progress as one of the problems of scientism.…
Uncle Mike on On The Myths Of ScientismSeptember 15, 2025
I think I may be channeling Grothendeick but without the genius part. Or turning into him like Kafka's caterpillar. What…
John Pate on On The Myths Of ScientismSeptember 15, 2025
I'm considering that adopting flat Earth as my model is the way forward, as an antidote to all this nonsense…
McChuck on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 13, 2025
@John - If you don't know already, you haven't been paying attention for, oh, your entire life. But you probably…