Statistics – Page 70 – William M. Briggs

A Note On Mathematical Axioms (With Regard To Sizes Of Infinity)

This isn't easy going, but there's a story out, with a very good write up in Quanta, on mathematical axioms, as they apply to different sizes of infinity. Key paragraph:…

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Proof Probability & Statistics & AI Don’t Discover Cause

Everybody has read, or seen adaptations of, Bram Stocker's documentation of Dracula, the undead count, unlate of Transylvania. From these pages and films, we all know how to kill a…

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Chimp Out Blamed On Global Cooling

Here's a story you didn't see coming, but should have, given how easily Experts are persuaded by other Experts to believe in each others' Expertology. Headline: "Chimps are spotted ganging…

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The Five+ Waves Of COVID Explained; Vexxination Tyranny; Why They Stopped Reporting Deaths; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXXI

Our Global Rulers' Motto: Science created the coronadoom, and Science will cure it. Trust The Science! Do not miss the last and most important section this week. It explains the…

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Media Blames Heatwave On Global Warming: I Say Nope

Okay, hold the emails. I changed the title to "global warming." I used "global cooling" originally only because it irritates to a great extent the ignorant who are always chanting…

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Dreaded Delta Surge Explained (Is it the Vexxine?); Cars Killing More Than COVID; Literal Ministries Of Truth; UK Pingdemic; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXX

BRACE YOURSELF How many died of traffic fatalities last week? About 744. On average. Given 38,680 died last year. How many died of the doom? CDC says 163. But that's…

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Models Only Say What They’re Told to Say — The Paper!

The paper (more like a glorified note, really) "Models Only Say What They’re Told to Say" (by me) will appear in the Springer book Prediction and Causality in Econometrics and…

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France Update: VAERS Suggests As Many Kids Dying From Vexxine as Coronadoom; Another Paper Shows Mask Mandates Don’t Work; Being Fat Is Bad; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXIX

FRENCH FARCE https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1414668383316938752 The French nation has descended into Effeminacy. No man may buy or sell with the Mark of the Vex. NEOLOGISM Hyperpole, n: extravagant exaggeration by politicians in…

NLR on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
I'm not sure if Universities are all that prestigious anymore. Probably the height of the prestige of universities was either…
Cary Cotterman on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
Parents obsessed with getting their kids into "elite" universities are fools. Today, I'd never hire anyone who had gone to…
Tars Tarkas on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
The best way to allow the uni to DIE is to end the student loan program and ban foreign students.…
Hoyos on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
“Losing to win”, doesn’t work, not really. Look at the UK, they scuttled the conservatives, vile as they’ve become, assuming…
yesitdid on Jung’s Synchronicity & CoincidenceJuly 27, 2025
Doctor Briggs. I suspect Carl Jung might thought a little bit like me. Although I'm not normally psychotic, my brain…