Statistics – Page 129 – William M. Briggs

Similarities Between ESP, Cold Fusion & Global Warming

Stream: Similarities Between ESP, Cold Fusion & Global Warming At the climate website No Tricks Zone, there is a picture of various estimates of CO2 climate sensitivity estimates. These are…

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Falsifiability Is Falsifiable

We've talked many times before, and at greater length in Uncertanity, about the concept of falsifiability. It has come up again lately. The term shouldn't be but is equivocal. I…

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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VII

Review! This is our last week of theory. Next week the practical side begins in earnest. However much fun that will be, and it will be a jolly time, this…

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Real Versus Fake Fake News: Update

Stream: Real Versus Fake Fake News On the last day of bad old year, Lake Superior State University released its 43rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English…

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How’d We Do On Our 2017 Predictions?

How'd we do? Not so hot. We missed big events; but then, 2017 was a screwy year with our continued slide into Insanity & Doom accelerating. As Yogi Berra may…

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In A Democracy, Everything Is Political. Even Science.

Stream: On the Left, Bad Politics Leads to Bad Science (Insanity & Doom updates resume after Christmas.) "All I Want For Christmas Is Full Communism Now". Not I. It is…

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Update: That Silly Asylum Applications & Temperature Fluctuations Paper

Update at bottom. I was asked by Axel Bojanowski, Science Editor at Der Spiegel to examine the Science paper "Asylum applications respond to temperature fluctuations" by Anouch Missirian and Wolfram…

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Cliodynamics And The Lack Of A Hari Seldon

There will be no Hari Seldon. But there will be prophets. If there is no Seldon, there will be no psychohistory, the fictional astonishingly accurate mathematical science predicting gross human…

Tars Tarkas on Autism & TylenolSeptember 24, 2025
If acetaminophen causes ASD, why did the increase not start in children born after 1960 when it first went on…
Brian (bulaoren) on Autism & TylenolSeptember 24, 2025
This morning, on line, I found an article stating that gravid liberal women are taking massive doses of Tylenol in…
Uncle Mike on Autism & TylenolSeptember 24, 2025
There are quite a few papers popping up that have "investigated" the Tylenol-autism connection. Some say there is a link,…
McChuck on Autism & TylenolSeptember 24, 2025
Obviously, autism causes the consumption of kale. There is no other explanation.
Briggs on In Which I Shockingly Agree With Sabine That Most Science Is Of Little Or No ValueSeptember 23, 2025
Mark, Tomorrow. Thanks.