Statistics – Page 205 – William M. Briggs

Researchers Claim Gays Who Face Prejudice Live Shorter Lives

The Daily Mail reported it like this: "Gay people who face regular homophobic abuse have a shorter life expectancy than those who live in more tolerant communities." Homophobic abuse, they…

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Scientists: Moral Traits Considered Most Essential Part Of Identity

Answer me this. You're on the job and the fancy iH20 cooler (with remote iPhone app) blows and shoots a bolt through your skull. The doctors say removing the bolt…

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What Statistics Really Is: Part Last

Read Part I, Part Paradox, Part II Recapitulation: we have Pr(p|qm) where p is a proposition of interest, q the evidence we have compiled in the form of observations and…

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Probability Is Logic: Philosophy of Probability & Statistics Video Series

I'm starting---and even continuing, if there is interest---a new video series on the philosophy of probability and statistics. Look at those retro production values! I boast of them following Julia…

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On Intelligence & Religiosity

Take a pencil and paper---do this---and write down the most intelligent people who have ever lived. Most brilliant in any field of endeavor, now. Who were the best of us?…

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Researchers Invent Exciting New Disease: Poverty Blindness

There must soon come a day at The Onion, the satirical newspaper, when the editors will gather in bewilderment and say to each other, "Fellas, there's no use. The real…

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Scientists Discover Men Enjoy Looking At Women’s Breasts.

Regular readers will recall there are two main kinds of bad statistics. First is when the technique has been done wrong or is misapplied. Errors of this kind comprise only…

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What Statistics Really Is: Part II

Read Part I, Part Paradox I claimed, and it is true, that all statistical problems could be written $latex \Pr(p|q)$, where p is a proposition of interest and q is…

George Jameson on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 16, 2026
I don’t know Sarge but the part about gutting the legal profession did cause my ears to perk up…
Cary D Cotterman on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 16, 2026
It's sort of like covid, in that I don't worry as much about AI as I worry about AI hysteria…
William Wallace on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 16, 2026
Rep Thomas Massie once did a video on how if electric vehicles were widespread adopted across our transportation network, the…
hudbwu on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 16, 2026
Okay Sgt. Briggs, are you *trying* to get yourself into trouble every time there is a panic going about? xD…
NLR on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 16, 2026
It is true that these individuals are psyching themselves into panic. If "AI" systems are a cheat code for the…