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Register Your Predictions For 2025!
My Dear Friends and Despised Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it’s time to register our predictions for the coming year. We looked at…
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The Difference Between Variability & Uncertainty In Risk
Reader question: Dear Dr. Briggs I regularly read your blog and have purchased both your books. I especially liked your book on Uncertainty, although I need to study it a…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Spurious Correlations Proves Hypothesis Testing Should Be Abandoned
This week traditionally is a slow week on the blog, so let me have a go at explaining something I've explained a few hundred times before, a thing which has…
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Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy
There are a lot of new readers, and many may not yet have heard of the epidemiologist fallacy. Few tools have been as productive at generating The Science. You know…
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Leighton Smith Podcast: Everything You Believe Is Wrong
Leighton Smith of New Zealand kindly had me on his podcast Wednesday. We discussed, among other matters, my book Everything You Believe Is Wrong. You know, the one my enemies…
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Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!
Welcome to the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
The Broken Science Initiative: Two Introductory Videos
The Broken Science Initiative, to which I have been invited, has at last been launched at a recent get together in California. Greg Glassman introduces the topic. You will recognize…
Posted inFun
The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.
What's Up? Time for our biannual update, dear readers. My forays into this new thing called "video" have, at long last, begun. It took me so long because I do…
