Statistics – Page 288 – William M. Briggs

Texting Leads To Sexting…Leads To Bad Television

Researchers Find What they find is a way to publish yet another study documenting what everybody already knew. According to this article, sent in by reader Jack Mosevich, researchers have…

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Mandatory National Standards For Salt Content Coming To A Government Near You

What's better: (A) voluntarily reducing your salt intake, or (B) having the government mandate that you do so? Naturally, if you don't opt for A, you get B, which we…

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Eliminating Randomness Reduces Need For God And Increases Belief In Evolution

Caution! The experiment I'm about to explain might increase your belief in God. It should only be attempted by academics who are immune to such deleterious effects. Got a pair…

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Free Books! Statistics, Psychics

In the same spirit of generosity that led M. Anonymous to donate a Kindle, I am offering the books I have written, if we can agree to honor those scrawlings…

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Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change

The headline boomed "CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS FUND ($900.000.00)". Even better, it was sent from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (nmf.unfccc12@att.net). Subject: Climate Change Awareness Fund. The opening line is a teaser,…

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Certain Oral Activities Linked To Intercourse Onset, New Research Suggests

I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to "New Research Suggests", for these three words begin most press releases announcing dubious "scientific" results. Whoever first thought of…

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Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin Or Cocaine?

Belly up to the bar, boys. Have a snort! Reach into that pile of needles and raise them high. I'd like to propose a toast to Professors David Nutt [sic],…

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How Much Math Do We Really Need?

That title was lifted from a Washington Post essay by G.V. Ramanathan, a professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For my…

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You speak wisdom, Martian giant.
Brian (bulaoren) on Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not PayApril 22, 2026
My previous post may seem a bit ambiguous. I do, of course, share Dr Briggs' disdain for ideologically blinded deniers…
Brian (bulaoren) on Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not PayApril 22, 2026
Today's post illustrates a new logic; one has to be insane to understand it. There was a time when insane…
Tars Tarkas on Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not PayApril 22, 2026
"And it is true because of a combination of innate, hence ineradicable, and environmental conditions. " Blaming the environment is…
Gail Finke on How A Miracle Turns MundaneApril 22, 2026
That staff story is bizarre. THAT was the final straw for him, when it sounds like the same story two…