Statistics – Page 211 – William M. Briggs

Government Per Capita Spending: Up, Up, And Away! Or, Happy Tax Day!

Here it is, folks. Right from WhiteHouse.gov. The amount of Federal Government spending per capita from 1901 to the present and projected out to 2019. Population projections were taken from…

Philosophy Statistics

The Hot Hand: Statistical Fluke Or Genuine Article?

I'll save you hunting through the text. It's a real thing. If you want to know why, read on. If not, you just tell 'em W.M. Briggs sez so, which…

Statistics

Truth: Logic of Probability and Statistics

Here, as promised, is rough, incomplete, outline-only, not-yet-finished, gist-only version of Chapter 1, Truth, for the book tentatively titled The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (I'm also toying with The…

Philosophy Statistics

The Somebody-Might-Get-Hurt! Fallacy

Word is our beneficent government, which loves us and would not see us fall into harm, is working on a design for a system of chains to anchor both citizens…

Culture Statistics

Boys’ Toys V. Girls’ Toys: Researchers Still Trying To Prove They’re The Same

Last Thursday I was at the warthog park at the butt end of 57th street on the East river, reading and enjoying the rare sunshine. Nannies and moms (mostly nannies)…

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The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (Book. Sort Of.)

I have decided to let you, dear reader, help me finish my book, which I have tentatively entitled The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics. This is about the seventeenth version…

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My Genes Made Me Vote For Obama: Predisposed Reviewed

Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith, and John Alford. If a conservative is a person who clings to what is, who resists…

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Another Fool Calls For My Arrest: Or, Adam Weinstein Slips A Nut

Another eek-screeching scrawny-brained bug-witted pretty-boy addled cancerous ferret has called for my arrest. My crime? Sanity. Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein), writing at a place with the puerile name of "Gawker"---come to…

Simon Platt on The Impossibility of Proposition NationsAugust 5, 2026
I'm English. They try this nonsense - they call it "British values" - here. It's not clear to me how…
spetzer86 on The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!August 4, 2026
Not a bad rhythm. Worth watching the YT.
C-Marie on Ugly Women Rulers Condemn LookismAugust 3, 2026
What is the point of this writing????? God bless, C-Marie
Cary Cotterman on Ugly Women Rulers Condemn LookismAugust 3, 2026
Huh? Is this a joke, or what? As an ugly old dude who was only ever marginally attractive at all,…
Johnno on Ugly Women Rulers Condemn LookismAugust 3, 2026
If dating trends are anything to go by, the men are no longer looking... Imagination will suffice until the end…