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WMBriggs.com Now A Violence Site
A reader at The Robert Gordon University in Scotland tried to access my site from campus and received this message. Now, presuming this is not a mistake, I am very…
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How The IPCC Buried Evidence Showing Good News About Global Warming
Here is the Executive Summary from our friends Marcel Crok and Nicholas Lewis in their report A Sensitive Matter which is available at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (preprinted by…
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What Are The Chances Of That?
Go ahead and ask me. I'll even pretend to laugh. Just as I chuckle warmly with you when you quote Mark Twain (or Disraeli) abut damned lies. (Secretly, I'll be…
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Best Picture Oscar Winner: Model Prediction
For several years I have been predicting (with perfect accuracy) the best picture Oscar. (See this and this for past years.) The "model" pick for this year is Captain Phillips.…
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Why You Should Care About The Philosophy Of Probability & Statistics
"Why, Dr Briggs," asks the earnest Student, "Why must we study all this gobbledegook about philosophy when it's more important to learn all the neat methods of handling data? Why…
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Update On The On-line Probability & Statistics Course. Comments Wanted
It's been a while, but I think I've finally figured out how to make an on-line class work. Details about this will be forthcoming, but for now I wanted to…
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Prosecute Global Warming Heretics. Update 2: Kill, Nuremberg Them, Too!
Prosecute the heretics! is the new cry from the high priests of global warming. Climate "deniers", they say, are no better than mobsters, good fellas who are extorting the climate,…
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The Mysticism Of Randomness: Philosophy of Probability & Statistics Video Series
Nothing can be caused by "chance". Chance, like randomness, isn't a thing, it isn't real, it isn't physical, therefore it cannot cause anything. Randomness means "unknown." Therefore "random variables" are…