The Curious Engineer

William M. Briggs

2006–2012

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December 2012

  1. Predictions 2013—Register Yours Today!
  2. The Curious Case Of Professor Richard Parncutt; Or, Death To Deniers And The Pope!
  3. Is Anything Really Right or Wrong? Speech by Peter Kreeft
  4. Logan’s Run: A Progressive Utopia
  5. The Dismal Removing Freedoms Saves Money Argument
  6. A Christmas Play In One Act
  7. Shocking New Study: Males Play More Sports Than Non-Males
  8. In Defense Of Peter Kreeft: A Response To Brafford
  9. Do Heat Waves Cause Birth Defects?
  10. No Religion Is Third-Largest World Group: Or, How Inaccurate Are Surveys On Religious Belief?
  11. The Hobbit Reviewed—Guest Post by John Henry Briggs
  12. The Data Is The Data, Not The Model: With Climatology Time Series Example
  13. Fats Waller—Your Feet’s Too Big
  14. On-Line Statistics Course: Ideas And Your Opinions
  15. Were Medications Responsible For The Connecticut Lanza Murders?
  16. Politico’s Biased Reporting Of Its Own Poll
  17. Reader Poll: Mayan Apocalypse, For or Against?
  18. What Can We Learn From A Crude Model Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases?
  19. Transhumanists Gather In San Francisco
  20. The Superpower I’d Most Like To Have
  21. Sam Harris & William Lane Craig Duke It Out
  22. What Does The Regression Equation Mean? Causality? Something Else?
  23. Two Oregon Academics Attempt Logic Lesson, Fail Miserably
  24. National Catholic Reporter Calls For Ordination Of Women
  25. We Will Soon All Be Mentally Ill: DSM V & Testing All Children For Mental Disease
  26. Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ
  27. O’Brian On Jesuit Education

November 2012

  1. It’s Time For A New (Old) Kind Of University: Update
  2. Germany To Ban Sex With Animals
  3. Job Hunting Guanxi Style—Guest Post by William J. Briggs
  4. Legal Insurrection: Wishcasting the 2012 Presidential Election
  5. Government Finds Clever New Way To Spend Your Money: NIH’s RePAIR
  6. Church Of England Rejects Female Bishops: Can Truth Be Had By Vote?
  7. What Marco Rubio Should Have Said: Advice To Conservatives
  8. Open Forum Friday. Black Friday?
  9. New Senate Bill Says Government Can Access Your On-line Info Without Warrant
  10. Ron Paul’s Moving, Truthful, Necessary Last Speech
  11. Spanking Kids Causes Cancer. Also, Asthma and Cardiac Disease.
  12. New Details On the Sex Scandal Emerge, Thank God
  13. Political Neuroscience Shows Obama Voters Are Different Than Romney Voters
  14. Did General Petraeus Stray Because Of His Wife’s Hair? Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
  15. More Consequences: The Way The World Looks
  16. Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health
  17. When Accepting Charity Was Embarrassing: The Lessons of Fibber McGee And Molly
  18. Congratulations Again Democrats
  19. The Final Polls & Predictions: What’s The Difference Between Polls And Models?
  20. Nobody Called Mitt Romney Stupid
  21. How Presidential Polls Work: D+7 or R-3 And All That

October 2012

  1. Boo!
  2. Women Do Not Have A Right To Do Whatever They Want With Their Bodies
  3. Nate Silver’s Obama Prediction: What Does It Mean?
  4. The Downside Of Technology: Being On Call 24/7—Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell (with pic!)
  5. Academic Philosopher Finds New Way To Dehumanize People; Calls For Beetroot Liberation
  6. Intrade’s Record In Picking Presidents: Is There Market Manipulation?
  7. Italian Scientists Convicted! Shocked That Their Predictions Were Heeded
  8. Risk Analysis And Over Certainty: Classical vs. Bayesian vs. Predictive Statistics
  9. Realism vs. Anti-Realism V: Conclusion—Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
  10. Stand Up For Religious Freedom San Francisco
  11. Top 10 Essential (Philosophical) Conservative Book List
  12. University’s Non-Discrimination Clause
  13. Realism vs. Anti-Realism IV: (some) Objections to realism—Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
  14. Lewandowsky’s Confusion About Statistics
  15. James Hansen Was Right
  16. A House Is A Woman’s Castle—Guest Post By The Blonde Bombshell
  17. Realism vs. Anti-Realism III: The anti-realist response — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
  18. Eating Chocolate Increases Chance Of Nobel Prize, P< 0.05
  19. Realism vs. Anti-Realism II: The realist challenge — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
  20. The Year Of Faith: What Strange Things People Believe
  21. The Future of Scientific Publications: Abandon Journals?
  22. Realism vs. Anti-Realism I: Introduction — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
  23. Caring Is Killing Us: What’s Wrong With Benevolence by David Stove
  24. Debate Thread: “Where Was This Romney Before?” Always There
  25. Scientists: GOP Women More Feminine Than Dems
  26. 8 Great Philosophical Questions That We’ll Never Solve—Update: Solved!
  27. Why I Am Becoming A Democrat
  28. Dominicans And Jesuits Battle It Out Over Thomism—Guest Post by John Kelleher

September 2012

  1. The Most Curious Use Of ‘Only’ You Will Ever See
  2. Men’s Fashion & Style Dos and Don’ts
  3. 1 Billion To Die By 2030: Global Warming’s Deadly Rampage!
  4. Anno Aetheris Scriptori XLVIII
  5. Rhode Island Schools Forbid Gender, New York Schools Sneak Drugs To Students
  6. Only Read Negative Reviews
  7. Should Humanity Take Religion on Interstellar Space Voyages?
  8. Aristotle On Non-Contradiction: Why UN Chief Ban Ki Moon’s Views On Free Speech Are Invalid
  9. What Do Philosophical Proofs Prove? — Guest Post by DAV
  10. NASA Faked Moon Landing—Academic Psychologists Swoon, Tie It To Climate Change
  11. Obama On Way Out? Romeny Hasn’t A Chance? Last Day of Presidential Voting Study
  12. College Essays For Sale—By Professors
  13. The Biggest Threat To Public Health? NYC Board Of Health & Soda Pop
  14. Statistical Follies and Epidemiology: Video
  15. Not To Be Cannot Answer To Be: The Beautiful Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas — Guest Post by Rank Sophist
  16. Cardinal Dolan Lectures Democrats and Republicans
  17. Soon & Briggs: Sunspots do impact climate
  18. We Have Evolved Beyond Evolution: How Can Evolution Help?
  19. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part Last: Skulls Full Of Nothing
  20. Movies I’ll Always Watch (If They’re On)
  21. Help Wanted With Ideas For Survey About Who Will Win Presidency

August 2012

  1. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part VI: Akin And Abortion After Rape
  2. Unleash The Giant Puppets!
  3. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part V
  4. Casino Deals Unshuffled Cards
  5. End Of The World Approaches—This Time Via A “State Shift”
  6. Statistics Of Drinking, Emailing, Pupil Size
  7. Bias Against Conservatives In Academia: Shocking New Study
  8. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part IV
  9. The Tyranny of Artistic Modernism: Ugly Buildings, Ugly Paintings, Ugly Words, Ugly Life
  10. A Peculiar Prevalence Of P Values Just Below .05
  11. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Interlude: Empiricism Is False
  12. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part III
  13. Stressed Men Prefer Chubby Chicks
  14. Psychic Cleaners, Emails, & Dialogue
  15. Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part II
  16. USA Homicide Rates: 1950-2010; By Race And Sex
  17. Chick-fil-A And Bigotry: One Aspect Of What Marriage Is
  18. Question About Non-Normal Distributions

July 2012

  1. More Proof Music Is Growing Worse
  2. Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training—Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
  3. Richard Muller’s Political Move—BEST is Best? Sophisticated Statistics!
  4. Doctors For Disaster Preparedness Talk
  5. Google’s Eric Schmidt & Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Blaze Path Of Ugliness
  6. The Chicago Way With Chik-Fil-A
  7. True Value Of A Parameter
  8. What Probably Isn’t: Heat Waves and Nine Feet Tall Men: Part II
  9. What Probably Isn’t: Heat Waves and Nine Feet Tall Men: Part I
  10. Men Nine Feet Tall And Bayes Theorem
  11. The Decline And Increase Of Mainstream Religions In The USA: With Pictures!
  12. Certainty & Uncertainty: Logical Probability & Statistics
  13. More On The 1 in 1.6 Million Heat Wave Chance
  14. Chance Of Heat Wave Only 1 in 1.6 Million? Or, Probability Gone Wrong
  15. How Good Are You At Making Sports Predictions?
  16. Observational Bayes > Parametric Bayes > Hypothesis Testing < Looking
  17. Rioting Is An Ecstatic, Spiritual Experience: Or, Structural Sin Made Me Do It
  18. A Depressing [Real Sad] Churchill Quotation—Contest
  19. Does Averaging Incorrect Data Give A Result That Is Less Incorrect? Climate Modeling
  20. Enumerated Versus Assumed Powers
  21. Stats On Extra-Terrestrial Life
  22. Spanking Good For Future Education, Income: Researchers
  23. July 4th: It’s Summer And It’s Hot
  24. Would Finding E.T. Destroy Religion? Experts
  25. Statistics Mailbag
  26. People Who Believe In Heaven Commit More Crimes

June 2012

  1. Help Heidelberg From Closing!
  2. The Great Roberts Ruse—Or Ruin?
  3. Why Do Statisticians Answer Silly Questions That No One Ever Asks?
  4. Teaching Journal: Day 11—Rewrite, Red Wine, Hat Clips
  5. Teaching Journal: Day 9—Hypothesis Testing: Part II
  6. Teaching Journal: Day 8—Hypothesis Testing: Part I
  7. Teaching Journal: Day 7
  8. Teaching Journal: Day 6
  9. Another Try With A New Look
  10. Teaching Journal: Day 5
  11. Teaching Journal: Day 4
  12. Teaching Journal: Day 3
  13. Teaching Journal: Day 2
  14. Teaching Journal: Day 1
  15. Teaching Journal: Day 0
  16. What Do You Think Of The New Look? (Back To Old: Temporarily)
  17. Personality Predicted By Pedal Extremity Wrappings?
  18. Drug Companies Tweaking Results To Produce Publishable P-values?
  19. 2012 UEFA European Football Championship And What Probability Is
  20. In Praise Of Narrow Minds
  21. “Say, That’s A Nice Hat”; Or, I Get Touched
  22. We Are All Eugenicists Now: New Test Identifies 3,500 Genetic “Faults” In Fetuses — Update
  23. Worst Invention Of All Time?
  24. Bernie Madoff To Join Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute: Work-Release Program
  25. How Paranormal Research Differs From Normal Research
  26. The Science In The Mercury Report By Florida’s DEP — Guest Post By Willie Soon
  27. Barcode People From Birth — Guest Post By Faith Reader
  28. The Difference Between Technical And Plain English Correlation
  29. Are There Any Arguments Against Eugenics Left?
  30. Gloom, Despair, Email Spoofing, And Kahan’s Science Literacy Paper

May 2012

  1. There Are Too Many Fat People: What To Do About It. Update: Bloomberg Bans Soda Pop
  2. Astrologers See Obama Victory
  3. Grade Inflation
  4. On The Murder And Death Of Classical Music
  5. The Last Cruise Of The USS Iowa
  6. From Homochirality In Amino Acids To Conquering Dinosaurs: How Journalists Report Science
  7. Scientists Discover Women Who Lick Their Lips Are Judged More Attractive By College Men
  8. Believers Less Vindictive Than Godless Atheists: New Research
  9. Why Truth Isn’t Absolute: A Defense Of Relativism — Guest Post by Luis Dias
  10. Interest In On-Line Statistics Courses?
  11. Richard Dawkins Turns Gideon?
  12. Scientific Truths Are Not Better Truths Than Just-Plain Truths
  13. What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common
  14. How To Present Anything As Significant. Update: Nature Weighs In
  15. Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers
  16. Dutch Doctors’ Strange New House Calls
  17. The Probability Of Nonsense In Science: Complexity & Verification
  18. Sleeping Beauty Probability Problem
  19. The Implications Of Moral Insignificance
  20. Another Academic Says Climate Skeptics Criminals Against Humanity And Other Name Calling
  21. All Forecasts, Predictions, & Prophecies Are Contingent
  22. Boy Sues Government To Stop Global Warming. James Hansen Comes Out Of Hiding
  23. Many Lie About Their Support Of Gay Marriage: Study
  24. What The North Carolina Gay Marriage Vote Means To You If You Were Against It
  25. Heartland Institute Accomplishes Act To Self Once Thought Physically Impossible
  26. Study Finds 9-Month-Old Babies Are Racist
  27. The Dire And Depressing Implications Of Science As Scientism: Two Introductions
  28. Why Republicans Deny Science—And Reality: Request For Help
  29. Leon Panetta Unleashes U.S. Army To Battle Carbon Dioxide
  30. Statistics Proves Same Drug Both Causes And Does Not Cause Same Cancer
  31. Atheists More Motivated By Compassion Than The Faithful?
  32. Academic Pscyhologists Over-Rely On WEIRD People: Overconfidence Results

April 2012

  1. The Times Weighs In On The Side Of Wayward Nuns
  2. More Analytical Thinkers Are Atheists: Study
  3. The War On Women Rallies
  4. Love Of Theory Is The Root Of All Evil
  5. EPA To Crucify Citizens, Hit ’em Hard As They Can
  6. Tennessee Votes To Teach Uncertainty In Science. Result?
  7. Weapons Make the Man Larger: New Scientific Growth Formula
  8. Conservatives Produced By “Low Effort” Thinking: Study
  9. What Will You Do To Celebrate Earth Day?
  10. Breast Cancer Screening Ruins Lives?
  11. Steve Zwick Says Burn The Deniers (Metaphorically)!
  12. I Am Not Selling Ham Equipment: My QRZ Account Has Been Hijacked
  13. The Red-Ball-In-The-Box Fallacy
  14. Descartes Knew More Than He Thought
  15. Brain Atrophy Responsible For Religious Belief?
  16. Wearing A New Hat At JP Research
  17. Don’t Drive On Tax Day! You Might Die
  18. Obama Doesn’t Have A Chance
  19. Diversity Is Not Always Desirable Part V
  20. Diversity Is Not Always Desirable Part IV
  21. Diversity Is Not Always Desirable Part III
  22. Diversity Is Not Always Desirable: Part II
  23. Diversity Is Not Always Desirable: Part I
  24. Squirrel Arrested For Stealing Nuts: Nonhuman Rights Entail Nonhuman Responsibilities
  25. Are The Masters Winners Getting Younger And Better? Predictions Update
  26. Good Friday: Rally For Reason With St Anselm’s Ontological Argument
  27. Do Conservatives Distrust Science More Than Liberals?
  28. The Reason Rally Fizzles
  29. The Humble Tautology And Probability
  30. Climate Denial And Slavery

March 2012

  1. On Not Winning The Lottery: Horrible Death & Strategies For Winning
  2. What I Will Do When I Win The Lottery
  3. Eugene O’Neill & KDE: Help!
  4. Bioengineering Humans To Combat Climate Change
  5. My Failure To Purchase Something In The Market Subjects Me To Regulation
  6. The Universe Created From Nothing Says Lawrence Krauss
  7. Supreme Court To Check The Doctrine Of Unintended Consequences?
  8. Why You Don’t Want Free Health Care: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Obamacare
  9. Bayes Theorem Proves Jesus Existed And Didn’t Exist
  10. Experts Say People Aren’t Smart Enough
  11. Global Warming Feedback Confirmed!
  12. This Page Intentionally Left Blank
  13. Steven Chu Walks To Work
  14. Fourth Annual Bad Joke Day
  15. Climate: Uncertainty Means That Things Can Be Worse Than Our Best Guess: Part I
  16. There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part II
  17. There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part I
  18. Solution Given! Probability Problem: Measurement Error Of Colored Balls
  19. A Pill To Eliminate Racism? What’ll Science Think Of Next!
  20. Enclothed Cognition—Wearing A Doctor’s Coat Makes You More Careful
  21. Women Spot Snakes Faster Before Their Periods
  22. Supplement For Your Tea
  23. Sandra Fluke Mows The Lawn: A Play In One Act
  24. The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part IV (finally the end!)
  25. The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part III (update)
  26. The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part II (update)
  27. The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part I (updated)
  28. Dawkins On The Double-Blind Experiment
  29. Statement Of Teaching Philosophy

February 2012

  1. The Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox Isn’t
  2. Oscar Predictions: Money, Men, & Maturity Make The Difference
  3. Scratch-off Lottery Tickets: Expected Payouts, A Hidden Benefit?
  4. What Is Cause? — Guest Post by DAV
  5. Last Night’s Republican Debate
  6. Santorum And The ‘S’ Word
  7. Why There’s No Point To Arguing About Abortion
  8. American Atheist Association Modifies Lawsuit Against WTC 9/11 Museum
  9. Heartlandgate Versus Climategate
  10. Morality Can’t Be Decided By Vote
  11. Heartland Documents Leaked, Massaged, Faked
  12. Why Reconstructed Temperatures Via Proxies Are Misleading
  13. Autism Caused By Highways?
  14. Stove On Unintended Consequences
  15. Mathematical Magic Trick: 8 4-Digit Numbers Summing To 35712?
  16. The Obama-HHS Diktat On Contraceptive Coverage: Non-Religious Arguments Against It
  17. Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part V
  18. Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part IV
  19. Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part III
  20. Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part II
  21. Let’s Try This Time Series Thing Again: Part I
  22. On Corrections In Science
  23. Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?
  24. On Global Warming Apoplexy: Temperature Trends
  25. How To Maximize The Chance Of Winning The Office Super Bowl Pool
  26. Bad Astronomer Does Bad Statistics: That Wall Street Journal Editorial

January 2012

  1. All Of Statistics: Part III
  2. All Of Statistics: Part II
  3. All Of Statistics: Part I
  4. To Be, Or Not To Be…Free: Sam Harris & Jerry Coyne On Free Will — Guest Post by Mariano Grinbank
  5. Low IQ & Liberal Beliefs Linked To Poor Research?
  6. How To Cheat, Or Fool Yourself, With Time Series: Climate Example
  7. Statistics Of Loeb’s “Observed Changes In Top-Of-The-Atmosphere Radiation And Upper-Ocean Heating Consistent Within Uncertainty”
  8. Sloppy Language About What’s True: Part III
  9. Sloppy Language About What’s True: Part II
  10. Polish Cheers And Pajamas
  11. Sloppy Language About What’s True: Part I
  12. EPA Can Fine You As Long As It Wants—With No Review
  13. On Probability Leakage
  14. Differences In Brains Between Believers And Atheists?
  15. First Signs of Rampant Global Cooling Seen At Nome, Alaska?
  16. Curtis’s The Science Of Subjectivity
  17. What’s The Difference Between A Confidence Interval And A Credible Interval? Update
  18. The Great Bayesian Switch
  19. What A Prediction Is And What It Is Not: Part IV
  20. What A Prediction Is And What It Is Not: Part III
  21. What A Prediction Is And What It Is Not: Part II
  22. What A Prediction Is And What It Is Not: Part I
  23. Statistics Compared To Ladies Of Ill Repute?
  24. What’s Up With The Sun? A New Book — Guest Post by Pål Brekke
  25. We Are All Dogmatic
  26. I’m Selected As An IPCC Expert Reviewer
  27. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part VII (Last)
  28. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part VI
  29. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part V

2011 295

December 2011

  1. Only 2 days left! Predictions For 2012: Submit Yours Today!
  2. Predictions For 2011. How’d We do?
  3. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part IV
  4. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part III
  5. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes God? Part II
  6. Can fMRI Predict Who Believes In God? Part I
  7. Merry Federal Holiday Of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
  8. Top 10 Upsets In The NFL Over Last Decade
  9. The Beauty Contest
  10. Iowa Professor Shocked To Discover He’s In Iowa
  11. What’s Funny About Tbilisi Ordinands? Hitchens, Stalin, and Buckley
  12. Ten Politically Incorrect So-Called Truths About Human Nature: 6 – 10
  13. Top 10 Sure Things: Which NFL Games Were The Easiest To Pick?
  14. How To Find True Love: The Marriage Problem
  15. Hurricane Predictors Admit They Can’t Predict Hurricanes
  16. Is Free Will an Illusion?
  17. CARB Misinterprets Statistics, Calls For Elimination Of Dust
  18. Are Moneylines Useful In Predicting NFL Games?
  19. Count Zappula, Horror Host Par Excellence
  20. Open Thread: What To Chat About Next?
  21. Increasing Replication Of Un-Reproducibility In Science
  22. Make Colleges Co-Signers Of Student Loans?
  23. Science Explains Belief In God Through Genetics
  24. Geo-engineering The Climate: Durban Global Warming Conference
  25. Are Experts Better At Predicting Sports Than Ordinary Fans?
  26. What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part VI Climate Model Focus
  27. What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part V

November 2011

  1. What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part IV
  2. What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part III
  3. What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part II
  4. What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part I
  5. Muppets Offer Human Sacrifice!
  6. Studies Show Mike McQueary Did What You Would Have Done
  7. A Black Day Indeed: To Be Thankful For Shopping (Updated)
  8. Happy Thanksgiving
  9. Something To Be Thankful For: Climategate 2.0
  10. Romney’s Obama Number
  11. The Selfish Genes Of Dennett’s Atheists
  12. UFOs in Taiwan
  13. Inuitionist Math & Probability: Riemann Hypothesis Example
  14. Another Reason To Abandon P-values; Or Another Way To Cheat
  15. Supreme Court To Rule On Obamacare
  16. Contingency, Causality, Determinism, And Free Will
  17. Priceless Now Means Of No Value
  18. Nothing Is More Important Than College Football
  19. Bad News For Conservatives? Or Bad News For Rational Thought?
  20. Global Warming, Asinine Science Roundup
  21. A Sermon You Won’t Forget: The Exorcist at 40
  22. Taiwan’s Nan-Men Market å—é–€å¸‚å ´
  23. Two New Papers vs. BEST: Guest Post by Lüdecke, Link, and Ewert
  24. BEST And The Wall Street Journal’s Numbers Guy
  25. The Twinkie Defense Defended: Soda Pop And Violence In Teens
  26. Counterfactuals And Woodchuck Probability Distributions
  27. A Final Solution To The Financial Crisis: Guest Post by Uncle Mike
  28. Best Statistics Question Ever
  29. Banzhaf’s Assault Against Logic: Muslims Are Not Suing Catholic University

October 2011

  1. BEST’s Worst Work; What Is Significant?
  2. A Case Of Failed Peer Review: Dust And Death
  3. Muslims Sue To Remove Crosses At Catholic University?
  4. What Faith Is Not
  5. European Union Crisis Postponed, Money Travels Back Through Time
  6. Feel Better? Antidepressant Use Rises 400%, White Women Top Lists
  7. What BEST Means And What It Doesn’t
  8. UN: Population To Swell To 15 Billion By 2100
  9. D.J. Keenan’s And My BEST Methodology Reviews
  10. Richard Muller Gives Permission To Be Climate Skeptic, Shows Why
  11. Your Belief In God Is Causing Your Denial Of AGW
  12. Louisiana Bans Cash For Used Goods
  13. Legal Standards Of Proof And Probability
  14. There Is No Such Thing As A Scientific Poll
  15. Nazis, Communists Now Support Occupy Wall Street
  16. Romney and Holdren Sittin’ In A Tree
  17. Occupy Sacramento!
  18. British Judge Rules Against Bayes’s Theorem
  19. Those Darn Skeptics And Their Communications Professionals
  20. What Are The Chances Of War With China?
  21. Occupy Wall Street — Guest Post by William James Briggs
  22. The Curse Of The Mouse: Apple vs. PC vs. Command Line
  23. Jeffrey Sachs Saves The World
  24. Fleet Week San Francisco
  25. Why Yom Kippur Is Sacred To This Priest — Guest Post by Father Brian Jordan
  26. Robert Heinlein And Evolving Probabilities
  27. The Implications Of Yesterday’s Global Warming Post
  28. Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper
  29. Are Humans As Violent As In The Good Old Days?
  30. America’s Security and Taiwan’s Freedom — Guest Post by June Teufel Dreyer

September 2011

  1. New Paper Shows Statistical Errors At 50% to 100% In Peer-Reviewed Neuroscience Journals
  2. EPA To Unleash Quarter Million New, CO 2 Sniffing Bureaucrats, Cost $21 Billion
  3. The Environmentalist Fallacy Causing Global Warming Divide To Grow
  4. Statistical Results Associated With Increased Risk Of Exaggerating Risk
  5. The EPA, Dust, And The Ecological Fallacy
  6. Reducing Your Dog’s Carbon Paw Print?
  7. What Are The Chances NASA’s Rogue Satellite Kills You?
  8. Edgehogs Take Hollywood
  9. Interview With A Climatologist
  10. It’s No Coincidence: Rarity Is Subjective
  11. Criticism of Jerrett et al. CARB PM2.5 And Mortality Report
  12. Number Of Ways To Go Nuts To Increase: DSM-V
  13. Of Course Human Caused Climate Change Is Real
  14. Are 40 Percent of Europeans Mentally Ill?
  15. What Is Science? Part I
  16. Occam’s Razor And Induction
  17. Are You Good At Picking Football Games? Edgehogs
  18. Spencer’s Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns
  19. How Do You Drive Every Day?

August 2011

  1. Cosmic Radiation, Clouds, & Global Warming
  2. Mental Illness To Increase Due To Climate Change
  3. Al Gore Says Climate Skeptics Are Racist
  4. Dahn Yoga: Plea For Information
  5. Hurricane Irene: End Of The World? Obligatory Global Warming Post
  6. The Increased And Increasing Chinese Military
  7. Detecting Deceptive Opinion Spam
  8. Conversation With A Progressive: The British Riots
  9. Logical Probability And The IPCC’s Ambiguous Forecasts
  10. Court Of Appeals: Obama Cares Too Much
  11. Is My Site Visible In China? Strange Request Day
  12. Alien Invasions To Increase Because Of Global Warming, Scientists
  13. Advice To Blog Writers
  14. Global Warming: Is Weight Loss A Solution?
  15. A Disease Which Affects Only Atheists?
  16. Obama Administration Gives Appeasement A Try With China
  17. Journal Editor Still Inserting Politics Into Science: Trevors and Saier Strike Back
  18. The Well Dressed PI — Guest Post By Thomas H. Humphreys, Private Investigator
  19. Letter From Student At Behemoth University
  20. A Synthetic What ? Lady Who Won Lotteries Is Statistician, More
  21. Are Scientific Papers Becoming Worse?
  22. The Saga Of The Stones
  23. Global Warming Beliefs, New Poll
  24. String Theory Confirmed By Airline
  25. Air Force Forced To Drops Ethics From Nuclear Weapons Ethics Training
  26. Updates
  27. Traveling Day Quiz

July 2011

  1. UN Nearly Makes Climate Change A Peace And Security Matter
  2. Obama Wants Statisticians!
  3. Reading Spencer’s Radiation Paper; Polar Bears Flap: Scientist Under Investigation
  4. The Absurdity Of The Budget Debate
  5. The Case Against Raising Taxes: Spending Drives Debt
  6. Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Review
  7. Interest In Penile Length Among Academics Growing
  8. David Stove, PMS Admakers Apologize For PMS Apology Ad, San Franciscan Criminals, More
  9. Does Exposure To American Flag Shift Support Toward Republicanism?
  10. The New Ballad of Chicken Little
  11. One Out Of Four, Most Used Statistic
  12. Welcome Back BYTE!
  13. Appeals Court Confirms TSA X-Ray Strip Search Validity
  14. Some Common Global Warming Fallacies
  15. The Horrible Dangers Of Third-Hand Smoke
  16. California Requires LGBT History In Textbooks; The Disabled, Too
  17. The Economic Fallacy, Greenpeace, David Suzuki, And Global Warming
  18. Earth Has A Fever: How Can We Cool It?
  19. Bathroom Stage Fright A “Real Condition” : Scientists Again Prove What Was Already Known
  20. Does Second To Fourth Digit Ratio Predict You-Know-What Length?
  21. Casey Anthony And The Probability of Guilt
  22. New Editorial Against Editorializing In Science Journals
  23. Title IX And Campus Equality
  24. San Francisco, Banning Capitol: Adds Pets To Forbidden List
  25. The PhD Octopus — Guest Post by William James

June 2011

  1. Replication In Science
  2. TSA Update And Practicum
  3. Kirk’s Principles Of A Preserver
  4. TSA De-diapers Old Lady (Update) And German Jokes
  5. More Bad Language
  6. New York Passes Gay Marriage: What Are The Consequences?
  7. A New (Old) View Of Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 11
  8. Regression Examples. Normal Distributions Often Stink. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 10
  9. Picking X’s In Regression. The Role Of Relevance. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 9
  10. Regression Is Not What You Think. Climate And Other Examples. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 8
  11. Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 7
  12. The Purpose Of All Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day5
  13. Combinatorics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 4
  14. Chain Of Argument. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 3
  15. Happy 1000th Post!
  16. Randomness And Mysticism. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 2
  17. The Nature Of Probability And Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 1
  18. Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0
  19. Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?
  20. Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities
  21. Death Threats And Tattoos: Climate Frenzy Update
  22. Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime
  23. Caught With My Pants Down
  24. Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story
  25. Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
  26. Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

May 2011

  1. The Showman’s Courtship: Guest Post By Artemus Ward
  2. Italian Scientists On Trial For Manslaughter After Failing To Predict Earthquake
  3. Proving What You Want To Believe
  4. The Myth Of Killer Mercury: Guest Post By Willie Soon & Paul Driessen
  5. India Aborting Girls At Full Speed: Sex Selection And Demographics
  6. Parents Raising Child As ‘It’
  7. The Trolley Problem And Experimental Philosophy
  8. Wishcasting The End Of The World: Update
  9. Sin Casa, Sin Curro Y Sin Miedo!
  10. City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision
  11. Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn Not Guilty!
  12. Can Telomeres Predict How Long You Will Live?
  13. Belief In God “Rooted” In Human Nature Say Academics
  14. Batman Arrested!
  15. Where There’s Smoke…
  16. Food Deserts: Millions Of Californians Starving Themselves Into Obesity
  17. There’s More Than One Way To Skin A Dead Companion Animal
  18. “I Can See The Future!”
  19. Do Americans Still Dislike Atheists?
  20. College Graduates Are Academically Adrift
  21. Osama Bin Laden Dead: Time To Quit Afghanistan

April 2011

  1. The Non-Candidacy Of Donald Trump
  2. Hayek Versus Keynes
  3. Government outlays: The Canadian Experience — Guest Post by David Ipperciel
  4. A Citizen’s Top Style Choices
  5. SETI Goes Deaf
  6. Slaughter Better Than Disease In Controlling Global Warming, Researchers
  7. Men’s Fashion
  8. Don’t Blame Me. I Don’t Have Free Will
  9. Earth Has Rights! Guest Post by John Henry Briggs
  10. Stunning New Book! Hats For All
  11. Predict The Next Strangest Government Regulation
  12. Taxing The Rich Always Fails Eventually
  13. The Impossibility Of Minimizing Your Environmental “Impact”
  14. Overstretching Climate Change Attribution
  15. Free Mumia! And Tunisia! A Play In One Act
  16. Wisconsin Election Statistics
  17. Chu On These Climate Tipping Points
  18. Guilty People Aren’t Guilty, Innocent People Are
  19. Climate Science And Significance: Wall Street Journal Takes On Statistics
  20. California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist
  21. I Am The Cause Of All Discrimination In The United States Of America
  22. Education: A Vaccine Against Ignorance? Or, There Are Too Many People!
  23. Put Down That Salt!

March 2011

  1. University Professors Teach Too Much: Part IV
  2. University Professors Teach Too Much: Part III
  3. University Professors Teach Too Much: Part II
  4. University Professors Teach Too Much: Part I
  5. Dear English Rioter
  6. March Madness Tournament Analysis: Which Seed Has Best Chance Of Winning?
  7. Religion May Become Extinct, Experts
  8. Do The Rich Pay Their Fair Share?
  9. Association Of Irritated Residents Defeats California Air Resources Board’s Global Warming Plan
  10. Posthuman Exopedagogy: Teachers To Use Wolf Boys, UFOs, Monsters To Boost Learning
  11. First Things’ Tournament of Novels: Get ’em While You Can
  12. E-book Update: Libraries, Notes, Price
  13. Japanese Meltdown
  14. Freeman Dyson, NPR, TSA X-rays, Northwestern University’s Bachelor Party
  15. Vicar Of Vintage Vinyl Vanquished: Danny Stiles Dead At 87
  16. Obama’s Faulty Pay Gap Statistics, Philosophy Of Abortion; Plus, The End Of The World
  17. Earthquake Ghouls, Colleges As High Schools, The Robinson DeFazio Controversy, More
  18. The Sorites Paradox Isn’t
  19. Group Differences: An Exceedingly Brief Introduction To Bayesian Predictive Inference
  20. Iowahawk Does Statistics—- Properly!
  21. Global Average Temperature: An Exceedingly Brief Introduction To Bayesian Predictive Inference
  22. Global Average Temperature: What It Isn’t
  23. TSA Expands Jurisdiction To Sidewalks: Where Is The Left?
  24. Reaction To The Latest Attack In Frankfurt
  25. Low Flow Toilets Equals No-Flow Sewers In San Francisco
  26. Stock Tomato Seeds! Global Warming Is Coming!

February 2011

  1. And The Winner Goes To…Oscar Statistics Wrap Up
  2. Oscar Statistics: Money, Men, and Maturity; Plus Our Predictions
  3. We Need To Slaughter Owls To Save Them, Environmentalists
  4. Prettier Politicians Preferred At Polls
  5. Midweek Catchup: The Natural Advantage Of Doomsayers
  6. Planet Could Be ‘Unrecognizable’ By 2050: Doom Just Around The Corner
  7. Weekly Mail
  8. Boy Wrestler Refuses To Compete With Girl
  9. Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version
  10. Time Travel
  11. Scientific American Proposes Socialism As Means To Eliminate Murder
  12. Hats Are Back! Staring At Women’s Breasts Lowers Math Scores!
  13. CliffsNotes for CliffsNotes: Now With Even Less Reading!
  14. Citizen Zings Deepak Chopra With Bolt Of Logic
  15. Two Open Letters To Congress On Climate Change, And A New Third
  16. In Their Own Words: Obama On Health, Holder On Race
  17. Music Not So Super At Super Bowl: Faked Cheering?
  18. A Correction: I’ve Been Misquoted
  19. Super Bowl Indicator Busted: A Sports/Markets Indicator for the Next Century—Guest Post by Doug Magowan
  20. Planet Earth Al Gore Explains ‘Snowmageddon’: Fox News Story
  21. New York City Democrats Remove Yet Another Right: No Smoking In Parks
  22. Are Tree Rings Low Pass Temperature Filters?

January 2011

  1. Will The Religious Out-Breed Us All?
  2. The Similarities Between Psychics And Global Warming Activists
  3. Model Selection and the Difficulty of Falsifying Probability Models: Part III
  4. Model Selection and the Difficulty of Falsifying Probability Models: Part II
  5. Model Selection and the Difficulty of Falsifying Probability Models: Part I
  6. Job Wanted: Tall Statistician Seeks Match
  7. What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit? Edge
  8. The Wine List
  9. The Statistics Of Racial And Gender Gaps
  10. Germany To Ban Noisy Kids?
  11. Bem, ESP, And Hypothesis Testing
  12. Rousseau And The New York Times
  13. Faith In Climate Catastrophe
  14. The Pope And The Big Bang
  15. What Is A “Climate Change Skeptic”? Assist With Definition
  16. New York’s Induced Terminations Of Pregnancy
  17. Internet Porn Reduces Rape?
  18. Ivy League Climate Skeptics
  19. Ecoheroes For the Climate Join Global Warming Superheroes!
  20. Predictions For 2011: Submit Yours Today!

2010 361

December 2010

  1. Nanodots, Kindles, And The Future Of E-Books
  2. Scientists Too Sure Of Themselves: Except, Of Course, Climatologists And Neuroscientists
  3. Regifting Robin, Cute Christmas Puzzle
  4. Denis Dutton RIP? Arts & Letters Daily Too?
  5. What Will They Protest Now? Guest Post by G. Willikers
  6. Global Warming Superheroes
  7. Taipei Cabbies And Food
  8. Classical Statistics Is Like A Criminal Trial
  9. Cultural Suicide: Have A Merry Holidays
  10. What’s Wrong With Hypothesis Testing: Reader Question
  11. John Cage’s 4′ 33″
  12. What Is A “Statistically Significant Trend”?
  13. Global Warming Causes Death
  14. In Praise Of Bad Jokes
  15. What Culture Has Wrought, The Grammys
  16. Victorian Book Title Statistics
  17. On Traveling
  18. No Formal Post; Open Discussion
  19. NASA’s New Life, Global Warming Survey
  20. The United States of Diabetes?
  21. Amazon Removes Buy Buttons, SUNY Albany Removes Departments

November 2010

  1. Cornell’s Cancun Climate Conference Crew
  2. Certified Hot!
  3. The Great Global Warming Blunder by Roy W. Spencer
  4. Kids Who Play Video Games Take Longer To Fall Asleep Than Those Who Sit Quietly
  5. Black Day
  6. What Do You Have To Be Thankful For? Don Alejo Garza
  7. Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School
  8. Tolkien Wants A King, Cheating With Statistics
  9. Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?
  10. The Government Loves You And Wants You To Stop Smoking
  11. New Expert Panel To Pick Experts For Expert Panels: Lessons From The TSA
  12. TSA Full-Body Scans Would Not Pass Hospital IRB Reviews
  13. College Students More Loquacious Than Erudite: Vocabulary Test Results
  14. TSA Cops A Feel: More Bad Statistics
  15. Texting Leads To Sexting…Leads To Bad Television
  16. Mandatory National Standards For Salt Content Coming To A Government Near You
  17. Happy Anniversary: Clip Show
  18. Eliminating Randomness Reduces Need For God And Increases Belief In Evolution
  19. Too Many Kids Go To College: A Fourth Conversation With Myself
  20. Free Books! Statistics, Psychics
  21. Plagues of the Mind by Bruce S. Thornton
  22. Kindle 3rd Generation Review: Dislikes
  23. Kindle 3rd Generation Review: Likes
  24. Top 10 Women’s Fashion Rules
  25. Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change
  26. Certain Oral Activities Linked To Intercourse Onset, New Research Suggests
  27. A Depressing Day, With Some Hope
  28. Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin Or Cocaine?
  29. How Much Math Do We Really Need?

October 2010

  1. High Priests Of (Climate) Science
  2. Being Against Climate Change Legislation Is Just Like Being For Slavery
  3. Influential Forecasts
  4. Are We In The Midst Of A Global Extinction Event?
  5. Statistics Exam #2
  6. I’m Happy To Help, Judith Curry: Overconfidence In IPCC’s Detection And Attribution
  7. Got Back Late
  8. Too Many Kids Go To College: A Third Conversation With Myself
  9. Utilitarianism, Halloween, and Phantasm
  10. The Corporatization of the University: Part III — Guest Post By Agnes Larson
  11. The Corporatization of the University: Part II — Guest Post By Agnes Larson
  12. The Corporatization of the University: Part I — Guest Post By Agnes Larson
  13. How To Cheat With Graphics: Paul Krugman Style
  14. The Dismal Economics of Utopia: Lesson One
  15. France Strikes Over Increasing Retirement Age: The Meta-Economics of Success
  16. Why So Many (Medical) Studies Based On Statistics Are Wrong
  17. Helping Student Athletes Pass College
  18. Are My Classes Too Hard?
  19. Peter Principle Particulars: Pluchino Paper Perused
  20. Decadence And The Failure Of The State: A Checklist
  21. About Donating
  22. Men’s Fashion Advice: Pocket Squares
  23. Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
  24. Hollywood: Stop Making Movies And Lower Your Carbon Footprint
  25. Thorium Instead Of Uranium: Solution To Our Energy Woes? Guest Post by James Mahaffey
  26. Food Wimpishness
  27. Ulysses And Phenomenal Woman
  28. Director Explodes Children In Name of Environment; College Degrees Don’t Always Pay
  29. CO 2 Is Very Very Too Much
  30. AMO+PDO = Temperature Variation: One Graph Does Not Says It All

September 2010

  1. Lottery Simulator; Science Reporting; More
  2. Predictions of E-Books And Reading Verified?
  3. How To Guarantee Enthusiastic College Students
  4. Reading Lyrics by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
  5. USDA Bans Delicacy? Pork Blood Cake Candles Snuffed Out
  6. The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums
  7. The Sports Illustrated curse and regression to the mean
  8. The Tolerance Paradox
  9. Causality: Guest Post by DAV
  10. Can Catching A Cold Make You Fat?
  11. Robert Messenger’s Weekly Standard “Theirs But To Do Or Die”
  12. “Climate Calamity” Rejected In Favor Of “Climate Disruption”
  13. Spot The Logical Fallacy!
  14. Horrible College Fashion: Both Professors And Students
  15. Too Many Kids Go To College: A Second Conversation With Myself
  16. Lying For A Living: Tiny Airline Seats
  17. How eBooks Will Lead To The Disappearance of Books
  18. University Rankings: Wall Street Journal, ACTA, QS
  19. Global Competitiveness Report: World Economic Forum
  20. Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, And Evil Alien Conquerors
  21. Florida Pastor Won’t Burn Quran: Prediction—Late Posting!
  22. The Education Bubble
  23. Skip Class Calculator Makes The News
  24. Company Stock And Bond Ratings: Skill and Influential Forecasts
  25. No Labor Today
  26. Obama Approval Rating By Religion
  27. Stephen Hawking vs. God
  28. How Steve Jobs Will Destroy Civilization
  29. InterAcademy Council Rebukes IPCC: Pachauri To Resign?
  30. James Cameron Ducks Global Warming Debate That Never Should Have Been Agreed To

August 2010

  1. Too Many Kids Go To College: A Conversation With Myself
  2. Equality Is Impossible: Part I
  3. Ground Zero Mosque vs Baghdad Christian Church?
  4. Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don’t Care?
  5. Global Warming Political Enemies List
  6. The Big Question: A Beginning
  7. Spot The Logical Fallacy!
  8. The Imperfectibility of Politics: Voting And Unhappiness
  9. Power Balance Bracelets And Celebrity
  10. Chinese War Poker: Bluffs Or Solid Threats?
  11. Skip Class Calculator Inventor Responds
  12. Back To School Electronically
  13. The Adventures Of Get-Along Man
  14. Second Annual Pass On Briggs Day
  15. The McShane and Wyner Gordie Howe Treatment Of Mann
  16. Newcomb’s Paradox And Probability
  17. Are Student Athletes Worse Than Other Students? Deadspin Contest
  18. Richard Rogers, Architect Versus Charles, Prince
  19. The Love Of Money Leads To Socialism
  20. The Etiquette Of Hats (For Men)
  21. The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite
  22. What I Did On My Summer Vacation
  23. Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part II
  24. Epidemiology, Causality, And P-Values: Part I
  25. What The Sale of Barnes and Nobel Means To Reading
  26. California Judge Reverses Prop 8: A Right To Marriage?
  27. Shermer Tries, And Fails, To Take Down Chopra
  28. Manzi: What Social Science Does—and Doesn’t—Know
  29. Everybody Has A Mental Disease: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5
  30. Correlation and Causality: Have A Drink, Get Rich
  31. Three Cards: One Black, One Red, One Half & Half

July 2010

  1. Professor Fired For Offending Friend Of Student (Then Rehired)
  2. New Tax To Force Citizens To Pay For Water: Prediction
  3. A Time To Celebrate!
  4. David Stove: Annotated List of Books
  5. Is the Arizona Immigration Law Racist?
  6. Replacements for Representation: Bayes From the Ground Up
  7. Finitism, Physics, Cellular Automata: The Universe as Logic
  8. Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
  9. Feigned Surprises of the Week: Journolist and Our New Tax
  10. A Bust—I mean must —Read; Or, An Evolution in Bra Sizes
  11. M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson, and John Wayne
  12. The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part II
  13. The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part I
  14. Four Chords Is All You Need: The Limited Nature of Pop Music
  15. St Petersburg Paradox; Games and Statistical Decisions; RIP David Blackwell
  16. How to Fool Yourself—And Others—With Statistics
  17. US Military Fatality Statistics: Have Suicides Increased?
  18. ‘The Most Dangerous Philosopher in the West’
  19. Paper or Plastic? Environmentalism as Public Religion
  20. World Cup Predictions Verified
  21. Global Warming Set To Song: Withering in the Heat
  22. The Predictive Skills of Octopii: Paul’s World Cup Prognostications
  23. Students Studying Less: Shocking Report
  24. Symmetry, Priors, Logical Probability, Infinities, and Needless Paradoxes
  25. Lady Wins Fourth Lottery: What Are the Odds?
  26. Consensus Members Agree To Agree: Breaking Story
  27. Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest: Kobayahsi Arrested! Records and Statistics
  28. World Cup Statistics and Predictions for the Final
  29. FBI Homicide Statistics: What Are You Most Likely To Be Killed With?
  30. Siena Presidential Scholar President Rankings: Are They Biased?
  31. In Defense of World Cup Enjoyment: A Response to Dalrymple

June 2010

  1. In Defense of Dogmatism
  2. Tricky Probability Problem: Chance of Two Sons, One Born on Tuesday?
  3. No Replay In Soccer: Sepp Blatter, Hold Strong!
  4. Statistics as Beauty; Global Warming Miscellany; SATs Biased?; More
  5. More Bad Music; Class Wrap-Up; Go USA
  6. Last Class
  7. What Do You Really Want: Part II
  8. What Do You Really Want? Modern Statistics. Lesson n+2
  9. Lesson n+1: Measurement & Observables
  10. Lesson Somethingorother: Against the P-value
  11. No Post Today
  12. Lesson Zero: Lecturing, Churchill, and End of the World
  13. Lesson Five or Six: Abnormality
  14. Lesson Two Again and Again: Logic is Not Opinion
  15. Lesson Two Redux: More Mysticism
  16. Lesson 2: Evidence and the Mysticism of Randomness
  17. Lesson 1: Limitations and Logic
  18. World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing
  19. Castrate People To Prevent Global Warming Suffering?
  20. Will Nature’s Lust Force A Change In Peer Review?
  21. Castrations To Increase Due To Global Warming; Or, Reindeer Not Having A Ball
  22. Science And Beer Goggles
  23. Plutarch On Coincidence
  24. Sophomoronology, John C. Wright’s Pathology of Intellectuals
  25. Life Isn’t Fair: Galarraga’s Imperfectly Perfect Game
  26. Ways Around Peer Review: viXra vs. arXiv; Plus, a Saturday Bonus!
  27. Attention Lawyers: New Way To Sue Over Global Warming
  28. Ottawa Soccer League: Score Too High, You Lose
  29. You Have To Die Of Something: Cancer Deaths to Double
  30. New Term For “Brights” Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins

May 2010

  1. Hume on Miracles
  2. The Falsely Restricted Outcomes of the Prisoner’s Dilemma
  3. Is Feminist Epistemology Different Than Male Epistemology?
  4. Dear Ben Santer
  5. What Makes Music Bad? A New Scale: Part I, the Definition
  6. Pet Peeves
  7. Barack Obama, Dictator: Secret Transcript
  8. Martin Gardner, Philosophical Scrivener, RIP
  9. eBooks And The Future of Reading
  10. My Secret To Win At Gambling Finally Revealed
  11. Louisiana State University Professor Booted: Course Too Hard
  12. Democracy Not Possible; The Constitution Amended
  13. Sue Over Climate Change? Comer v. Murphy Oil
  14. You Too Can Be A Genius After 10,000 Hours
  15. Socialist Math Textbook Exercises
  16. Pajamas Media: Intellectuals by Thomas Sowell
  17. Intelligent Design is Mostly Harmlessness: Reply to Eugenie Scott
  18. Tree Hugger Squeezes Too Hard and Other Stories
  19. How Republican Is The Country?
  20. Questions of Kagan, the WHO, and Your Right to Eat Pizza
  21. Anti-Tobacco Lobbying Is Bad For You
  22. Are Men Smarter Than Women?
  23. Sex, Race, Uncertainty, Climate, and More! Saturday Links.
  24. Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Guest post by Frank Wallace
  25. I’m Sick of All These Climate Skeptic Deniers
  26. Confidence Intervals, Logic, Induction
  27. Ernie Harwell, RIP
  28. “Bring Who Did It To Justice” and Other News Words I Hate
  29. Goodbye Ownership & Privacy: Apple, Amazon, the Government Have Your Numbers
  30. The Truth of Things: When Probability & Statistics Cannot Be Used
  31. Poem Code Challenge Solution

April 2010

  1. Is Experimental Economics Irrational?
  2. My Answers to Willis Eschenbach’s 14 + 2 Questions
  3. Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It?
  4. What Can Volcanic Dust Models Tell Us About Cap & Trade?
  5. Harvard Classes: Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball
  6. Cornell University to Offer Degree in News Anchor Hairdo Studies
  7. The Pournelle vs. Nolan Chart: Political Throwdown
  8. Russia Subtracted Most People; India Added Most.
  9. Earth Day: Book 1
  10. eBook Business: iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc.
  11. Goldman Sachs, Bubbles, Global Warming, and Statistics
  12. Pajamas Media: The Dismal Economics of Utopia
  13. Obama: “Thank me!”
  14. Randomness is a Matter of Information
  15. The Share of Income Taxes by Rich and Poor
  16. Calculating the Uncertainty of Economic and Other Forecasts
  17. What’s New at WMBriggs.com
  18. Dawkins & Hitchens to be Arrested for Crimes Against Intelligence
  19. Hot News Saturday: Worst Science Fiction, Sheffield Devolves, Sainted Liberals
  20. Newsweek : Priests Abuse at Same Rate as Non-Priests?
  21. Peer Review and Proof
  22. Obama’s New Nuke Policy: Preemptive Appeasement
  23. Short New York Real Estate Because of Global Warming?
  24. There Are No Left-Handed Catchers, Pitchers Are Tall: Baseball Biometrics
  25. Easter Egg Hunt
  26. Top 10 Manly Jobs: Popular Mechanics’ Cool Gigs List
  27. Gladwell, Gottman, and Abraham on Predicting Divorce
  28. Obamacare & Climate Change: Temperature, Health Targets

March 2010

  1. “Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change” Lovelock
  2. What Do Philosophers Believe? Survey: Part II
  3. What Do Philosophers Believe? Survey: Part I
  4. Amish Romance Meets Teen Vampire Fiction
  5. Warnings by Mike Smith
  6. 2000 Scientists Demand Climate Action! Part II
  7. 2000 Scientists Demand Climate Action! Part I
  8. Democrats’ Appalling Budget Wishcast
  9. The Science News Statistical Article: Odds Are, It’s Wrong
  10. A Most Depressing Day
  11. Obamacare Predictions: Part II
  12. Obamacare Predictions: Part I
  13. Pajamas Media: Sudden Acceleration or Creeping Fear?
  14. Randomized Trials Are Not Needed
  15. Obamacare: Sympathy for Homeopathy?
  16. Are All Governments Destined For Failure?
  17. Six-year-old Boy Holds Class Hostage, Uses Finger For Gun
  18. Final Healthcare Showdown: Government vs. Liberty
  19. Climate Model Uncertainty: Part II
  20. Pajamas Media: President Obama To Make Poverty Permanent
  21. Climate Model Uncertainty: Part I
  22. Use of Deadly Force Authorized Against Renegade Sea Lions
  23. New Study Says iPhones Addictive: More Bad Statistics
  24. England Invents New Kind of Inequality
  25. Do only the less intelligent write papers about theists being less intelligent?
  26. Guest Post by Paul “Population Bomb” Ehrlich: Fight the Climate Skeptic Conspiracy!
  27. The Ease of Cheating With Statistics
  28. Carbon Neutral Dining
  29. Pajamas Media: The Inevitable Failure (by Design) of Cap and Trade
  30. Al Gore Turns Purple
  31. Winter Olympics Medal Trends

February 2010

  1. Berkeley Day of Action Planning Meeting (Student Riots)
  2. Surprise: Men Find Hourglass Figures Attractive
  3. Should I be Responsible for Your Health?
  4. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part III
  5. Do Stricter Gun Laws Lead to More Crime? Brady Gun Law Scorecard & Murder Rates
  6. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part II
  7. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part I
  8. Phil Jones and the Lack of Warming; Or, Die, Statistical Significance, Die
  9. Alone and Frames by Loren D. Estleman
  10. The Mount Vernon Statement vs. The Manhattan Statement
  11. Phil Jones, I accept!
  12. Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky
  13. Rumsfeld and Keynes on Probability
  14. On the Morality of Global Warming Criticism
  15. Sussex University: Where You Earn A New Kind of Bachelor’s Degree
  16. Pajamas Media: ‘A Blink of an Eye, Astronomically’: What Does It Actually Mean?
  17. All Models Are Not Wrong
  18. Seasonal Climate Forecasts Do Not Have Skill
  19. R Lectures Update
  20. Predictive Statistics: GPA Case Study, Part II
  21. Predictive Statistics: GPA Case Study, Part I
  22. Monday Moanin’
  23. Ayn Rand and the Differences Between Groups
  24. What do you guys look like?
  25. R Lecture 7: Reading External Data Part II
  26. Climate Skeptic Conspiracy Strikes!
  27. R Lecture 6: Reading External Data Part I
  28. Quirk’s : Telling the future from the past: predictive versus classical statistics
  29. Malthus Was Wrong, But Not Why You Think
  30. R Lecture 5: Reading Built-in Data
  31. 2011 Per Capita Budget Highest Ever
  32. Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia

January 2010

  1. Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad and the Washington Post Editorial
  2. Welcome-to-Saturday Links
  3. R Lecture 4: Help & Plotting
  4. R Lecture 3: Our First Program!
  5. Two-and-a-Half Millennia Don’t Change Much
  6. Create Tax Refunds That Must Be Donated To Political Parties?
  7. R Lecture 2: Prepping a Folder
  8. State of the Union Snippets: Live Blog (update continuously)
  9. Have You Seen My Country Lately? — by Jerry Doyle
  10. Employer told not to post advert for ‘reliable’ workers because it discriminates against ‘unreliable’ applicants
  11. R Lecture 1: Installing R
  12. R Lectures
  13. What Do Barney Miller and IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri Have In Common?
  14. Astroturfing Explosion: Who Did It?
  15. Pajamas Media—Good: Nuclear Doomsday Clock Turned Back; Bad: Board Didn’t Factor In Iran
  16. Proof That There Are Too Many Lawyers?
  17. Pajamas Media: Actually, Weather Is Climate
  18. Army Defers to NGO, Signs Treaty
  19. How To Use A Poll To Predict Election Winners
  20. Dahn-Yoga Touted “Peer-Reviewed Study” Stinks
  21. Professions To Become Less Elitist In England
  22. Don’t Read This If You Want To Stay Happy
  23. Random Samples In Polls Not Needed; Other Common Poll Errors
  24. Pajamas Media: Out-of-Control Multiculturalism at Berkeley High School
  25. Should We Punish The Religious More Harshly?
  26. Conservatives Are Dumber Than Leftists
  27. Dahn Yoga Called “Cult” in Lawsuit
  28. Pajamas Media: The Logic of Liberty: Whose Responsibility Is Your Health?
  29. Top 3 Books, and 1 Bottom One
  30. No celebration over Californian budget cuts?
  31. Traveling links
  32. Health Care Ping Pong Party
  33. Most Visible Airport Security Rules Cannot Prevent Another Fruit-of-the-Loom Bomber
  34. Definitions of Equality
  35. Results of Complete Prediction of 2009 NFL Season
  36. Top 10 Spoof Movies of All Time!
  37. Newsweek imagines a President Al Gore

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December 2009

  1. New Year’s Resolutions
  2. Fruit-of-the-Loom Bomber update
  3. Obama responds to the Fruit-of-the-Loom Bomber; White House now officially resembles Naked Gun
  4. Happy Family Plan
  5. The Fruit-of-the-Loom Bomber Fails; Or, Hasn’t Detroit Suffered Enough?
  6. It’s not to late to avoid the worst—reconciliation coming; Or, What does Whole Foods have to do with health care?
  7. Avatar: A lot to look at, not much to see
  8. Pajamas Media: Merry Christmas. Now Stick ’em up!
  9. Christmas Eve Party Game: Spot the Logical Fallacy!
  10. Health care: Dems to vote to increase taxes and debt ceiling simultaneously
  11. Guest Post: Amazon Kindle review by Ari Schwartz
  12. My beloved Detroit
  13. Live from Copenhagen, The Benny Hill Show !
  14. The Democrat Health Care Power Grab
  15. Earthquake!
  16. I suppose this is the highest praise journalists can now hope for
  17. Pajamas Media: What Happens After Copenhagen?
  18. Several inches of global warming fell in Taiwan
  19. Wolf Blitzer interviews Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill
  20. Homogenization of temperature series: Part V, The real Grand Finale
  21. Homogenization of temperature series: Part IV
  22. Pajama’s Media: Global warming accelerating once again
  23. Homogenization of temperature series: Part III
  24. Schedule, Taiwan, More Homogenization
  25. Homogenization of temperature series: Part II
  26. Homogenization of temperature series: Part I
  27. San Francisco Chronicle can’t make up its mind about global warming
  28. Pajamas Media Post: ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’ Fails Logic 101
  29. Protesters gather in Copenhagen. Why?
  30. Gotta fear them crazy GIs
  31. I don’t want to eat protein
  32. Carbon coaching
  33. Blasphemy Contest winner announced
  34. What happens when Air gets angry

November 2009

  1. Mathematicians as Comic book Superheroes
  2. High-tech Tinfoil Hats Thwart Abductions!
  3. A Response to What is—and what isn’t —evidence of global warming.
  4. Podcast Radio Show #5: Independence Day!
  5. Aunt Sylvia’s Thanksgiving
  6. My Pajamas Media Climategate Article
  7. Climategate Predictions: The Aftermath
  8. This just in!
  9. The CRU “climategate” proxy code: a primer
  10. Climategate Peer Review: Science red in tooth and claw
  11. The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacking
  12. Mammogram wrap-up
  13. More on mammograms
  14. No Mammogram Screening For Healthy Women Until 50: It’s about time
  15. Politics
  16. Can you do these math problems? If not, you can still go to college
  17. Podcast Lecture #5: Four Probability Rules
  18. The Five Worst Enemies of All Humanity
  19. The Navy’s Phantom Pooper
  20. Conditional probability, Islam, and terrorism screening
  21. Vacuous Verisimilitude; Or, V has arrived
  22. Secret House health care provision
  23. Evolutionary medicine: my death rate delta v finally goes negative
  24. The declining popularity of the World Series
  25. Stinky Tofu
  26. Oops — Inadvertent post: Odd NIH Grant
  27. England, Where Everybody’s a Paedophile

October 2009

  1. When zombies were scary
  2. Podcast Lecture #4: Understanding Statistics and Probability
  3. The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story
  4. Briggs and Big Oil
  5. Decision Calculator
  6. Larry goes to the Market
  7. Podcast Lecture #3: Understanding Statistics and Probability
  8. Windows 7? Why not Linux, instead?
  9. Not Evil, Just Wrong reviewed: Guest Post by Bernie
  10. Full Disclosure, Anita Dunn, and Fox News: A Fairness Proposal for Journalists
  11. Podcast Lecture #2: Understanding Statistics and Probability
  12. Podcast Radio Show – Episode #4: Belief in Climate Models
  13. F train Blues, Michael Palin is proud, and some misuses of statistics
  14. Podcast Lecture #1: Understanding Statistics and Probability
  15. Podcast Radio Show – Episode #3: Call the Health Police!
  16. The Case of the Rape-rape Patrol: a 17th precinct mini-mystery
  17. About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness

September 2009

  1. Podcast Radio Show – Episode #2: The Limits of Human Knowledge and The Singularity
  2. The Theory of Increasing Government Idiocy
  3. Coincidence?
  4. Blasphemy Contest!
  5. Podcast Radio Show—Episode #1: The Mind of the Climate Activist
  6. Guest Post: The Case of America’s Missing Rebellion
  7. But what about the children!
  8. Some of us won’t make it personally through this!
  9. What the…? Just make up your mind!
  10. “Hand me that ice pack, stat ! He has global warming sickness! “, Or, The ED and the Coming Heat Wave
  11. The Conservatives by Patrick Allitt
  12. Complete Prediction of 2009 NFL Season
  13. What is the probability the Detroit Lions lose every game (again!)
  14. Real Education by Charles Murray
  15. Can You Read My Mind?
  16. Poem Code Challenge Hint

August 2009

  1. Vegetarian Swallow Balls
  2. You were right, Ted Kennedy
  3. 10 Books To Read Before You Die
  4. Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part IV
  5. New and really improved!
  6. Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part III
  7. Noblesse Oblige
  8. New and Improved!
  9. Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part II
  10. Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part I
  11. DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: III of III
  12. DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: II of III
  13. DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: I of III
  14. At ASA/ISM Joint Statistical Meetings
  15. The Sad Decline in Music: Benny Goodman vs. House Music
  16. Models, theories, consistency, and truth

July 2009

  1. Coin, queries, and screening
  2. An internet success story: Shakedown by Ezra Levant
  3. Taking stock in the track: horse races and brokerages
  4. The sad decline of music: Billy Strayhorn vs. Drake
  5. Gizmos in the classroom
  6. Closing Time , by Joe Queenan
  7. Leszek Kolakowski is dead
  8. Amazon remotely deletes legitimately purchased books from Kindles
  9. The sad decline of music: Cole Porter vs. The Beatles
  10. The strange insignificance of statistical significance
  11. Hannah Arendt on global warming theory
  12. A Return to Seriousness: 7 Best Songs About Beer; Or, God Bless the Pope
  13. Randomness isn’t in charge of anything: the “hot hand” in basketball
  14. Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising
  15. Public Enemies — by Bryan Burrough

June 2009

  1. The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part I
  2. Paul Krugman drags out the “T” word again
  3. One reason leftists think conservatives are idiots
  4. How to gamble if you must
  5. Never too old to learn
  6. Derek Jeter’s Tailor in trouble with the law
  7. On tolerance
  8. Reasons the Apocalypse is not near
  9. The Noble Savage Altruistic Warrior
  10. Shocking Shockley
  11. Informative Kindle 2 review at Amazon
  12. The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part 2
  13. French woman led away in chains for refusing to be safe

May 2009

  1. The Tree Museum — by Kathleen Kaufman
  2. The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part I
  3. Words I hate: Part I
  4. Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free
  5. Disparity is inevitable: a counter argument to filing discrimination lawsuits
  6. California
  7. Mental Magic and Psychology
  8. Pink horror

April 2009

  1. Thou shalt not be more able
  2. Gay marriage and tradition: a continuation
  3. A poor argument for gay marriage
  4. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
  5. The Great Government CO 2 Power Grab
  6. Title IX in Science and Engineering
  7. Go, Bird, go!
  8. Top 10 Men’s fashion rules
  9. If you are redirected here please leave a comment
  10. I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse
  11. The only two reasons for statistics
  12. Omni magazine: a tribute
  13. I’ve changed my mind about global warming

March 2009

  1. The ad I wish CATO would have run
  2. Did a psychic solve the Tabitha Horn murder case?
  3. Mini book reviews
  4. A day in the life of a statistician
  5. What scientific or technological advance would you most like to see in your lifetime?
  6. I am a child of the ’70s
  7. If Baby cries then we beat him
  8. Necessary but not sufficient
  9. Lazy Sunday links
  10. What’s killing newspapers?
  11. Why I do not yet own an e-book reader
  12. A new movie rating scheme
  13. CBC’s How to Think Aboot Science series
  14. Relativism: an idea that failed before it started
  15. A subtle difference
  16. A new cure for insomnia
  17. More essential reading
  18. Some pieces you should see
  19. You have no choice but to read this
  20. I don’t know if it’s irony, but it is funny
  21. I was wrong about wishcasting the election
  22. We’ll miss you, Paul Harvey

February 2009

  1. RSS content feed still busted; comments ok
  2. Wishcasting the McCain-Obama presidential election
  3. Peer review
  4. I suppose Apple— corporation —would be happy
  5. What appeal to authority means and what it doesn’t
  6. Just upgraded. Anything unusual?
  7. Today’s groaner
  8. You’re welcome
  9. Site down last night
  10. Help finding paper.
  11. We made Joker!
  12. Cute Fox News ad
  13. For I, James Hansen, Scientist, have spoken
  14. Count ’em: The White House should not control the Census
  15. resource : property that can be converted into supplies (Webster)
  16. Theory confirmation and disconfirmation
  17. Panda Runner
  18. Some good economic news!
  19. I should be happier
  20. Obama’s salary cap seem like a good idea to you?
  21. Evidence the world isn’t completely going to hell
  22. I’m thinking of turning to crime

January 2009

  1. Why I will never fly US Air
  2. Playing catch up
  3. Just got back
  4. Random encounters
  5. Taiwan travel
  6. Nearly heaven
  7. The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part V
  8. The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part IV
  9. The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part III
  10. The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II
  11. Technical problems: cache
  12. Happy New Year!

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December 2008

  1. The Great Far East Mission of 2009
  2. Nobel prize in medicine here I come!
  3. People with nothing to do will find something to do
  4. (Ex-Army Captain) Kyle Smith gets his statistics right
  5. Next time you drive by Janovic Plaza…
  6. Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story
  7. Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
  8. Almost Top 10 Christmas Songs: guest column
  9. “I was all, like—awugh.”
  10. Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!
  11. Wrestlers sponsor “earth hour”
  12. Unnecessary hypervigilance in parks: no unaccompanied adults!
  13. Here’s a good idea!
  14. What is the worst crime?
  15. test
  16. How not to argue for stem cell research
  17. Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
  18. Hire me!
  19. We made “noteworthy”
  20. Just what are falling temperatures evidence of?
  21. An international court to prevent climate change. Now that is a good idea.
  22. “Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil.”
  23. Breaking the Law of Averages on Amazon
  24. The Malcom Gladwell 10,000 hour genius certificate

November 2008

  1. We had turkey for Thanksgiving…
  2. Breaking the Law of Averages has finally arrived (almost)!
  3. Top 10 Military Movies
  4. Which combination of President and Congress spent the most?
  5. Which president spent the most?
  6. Government per capita spending revisted
  7. Stock market crash, hearing aids, F-train music, and the boom-chhh Combinatoric Theory of Finite Musical Variety
  8. On the growth of government spending: who benefits, the rich or poor?
  9. Signed copies: update
  10. Statistic of the day
  11. Classical music is dying
  12. Mark Twain
  13. New Arcsine Climate Forecast: Hot and Cold!
  14. Signed copies: update
  15. Veteran’s Day
  16. Poll: Who’s more ardent? An Obama supporter or a Mac fanboy?
  17. Schumer’s Fairness Doctrine fatuity
  18. I have always liked P.J. O’Rourke
  19. Michael Crichton and SETI
  20. Signed copies: update
  21. Signed copies: update
  22. Paper churning
  23. Congratulations President Obama
  24. TV…no, wait… rain causes autism
  25. “Beware of geeks bearing formulas”
  26. Signed copies: update

October 2008

  1. Breaking the Law of Averages: Real-Life Probability and Statistics in Plain English
  2. “Time to Die” Samsung cell phone message
  3. Start squirreling away nuts?
  4. More forecasting: Obama’s Loss Traced To William Briggs
  5. Probability of McCain win
  6. Stand by!
  7. An early start to the “holiday” season
  8. Anybody see this one?
  9. Health care crisis!?
  10. Uncle Ted’s Manifesto: Ted, White, & Blue : a review
  11. Where did I go wrong
  12. Artificial photosynthesis
  13. Random topics
  14. Science is decided by committee
  15. Don Imus Radio Show: a review
  16. Bad news for Bonobo
  17. Sneak Peek of Book Cover
  18. I would reluctantly serve
  19. Peer Review Not Perfect: Shocking Finding
  20. Looks like an own goal to me
  21. Why probability isn’t relative frequency: redux
  22. John McCain will win
  23. An American Carol: review
  24. Why probability isn’t relative frequency
  25. Random global warming nuttiness

September 2008

  1. Let them fail
  2. Next prohibition: salt
  3. Hope in academia? Too many kids in school? And much more!
  4. Why probability cannot be subjective
  5. More evidence that people are more sure than they should be
  6. Not all uncertainty can be quantified
  7. Book coming…
  8. How to cheat with statistics: CNN ad
  9. The limits of statistics: black swans and randomness
  10. Much too certain: miscellaneous Sunday topics
  11. The limits of acceptable criminal behavior to combat global warming
  12. On male pattern baldness and global warming
  13. Some more reasons why I should be in charge
  14. Demonstration of how smoothing causes inflated certainty (and egos?)
  15. Still a few days left to guess who will win Presidential race
  16. Predict who will win the US Presidential Race
  17. New Democrat Theme Song
  18. On journalists and Governor Palin
  19. Wishcasting
  20. Gustav to spoil Moore’s fun

August 2008

  1. Celebrities who promise to move out of the USA when McCain wins
  2. On taking pleasure in the misery of others
  3. The importance of Palin’s experience
  4. The importance of Commander in Chief
  5. Comparing McCain’s and Obama’s experience
  6. Remember what we said about zombies
  7. Climate inactivism
  8. Which country did best in the Olympics?
  9. Environmentalists feed people to dragons
  10. The Pathetic Madonna
  11. Has Couple Found Formula To Win Lottery?
  12. Reportorial entrails and other auguries
  13. Suicides increase due to reading atrocious global warming research papers
  14. Roger Kimball’s Challenge
  15. Stop making babies to reduce global warming
  16. Wall Street Journal: Better than a statistics textbook.
  17. Extremely fit have larger carbon footprints than do couch potatoes: scientific study
  18. Surely, you wouldn’t go and see An American Carol?
  19. The B.S. octopus
  20. Don’t be so sure
  21. Wrong -> Immoral -> Illegal?
  22. Effectively destroy planet Earth as we know it
  23. Dollar bill presidents

July 2008

  1. Does watching TV cause autism?
  2. Help! WordPress won’t show other pages
  3. Do not try the WPAU plugin
  4. On the difference between mathematical ability between boys and girls
  5. On Bias
  6. A Rhetorical Question
  7. More Art
  8. Shifting Baselines Syndrome
  9. Red State Update
  10. What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)
  11. Actual footage
  12. Transforming American Military Policy
  13. Another increase in moronicity
  14. What happened to sultry?
  15. At least they’re admitting it
  16. Lizards all male climate change club
  17. I wish I was making this up
  18. Wired’s theory: the end of theory

June 2008

  1. IMS: Citation Indexes Stink
  2. Variant on a theme
  3. Ithaca update: hours and dogs as presidential candidates
  4. But you must hate us!
  5. Please don’t let them do it
  6. Peer-reviewed research: Men find looking at nearly naked women distracting
  7. Bill Clinton’s “Pump Head”
  8. Publisher needed: Stats 101
  9. How to Cheat: Stats 101 Chapter 14

May 2008

  1. Starting to lose you: Stats 101 Chapter 9
  2. Stats 101: Chapter 8
  3. Stats 101: Chapter 7
  4. Stats 101: Chapter 6
  5. Comments restored
  6. Stats 101: Chapter 5
  7. Stats 101: Chapter 4
  8. Stats 101: Chapter 3
  9. Stats 101: Chapter 2
  10. The Sean Bell shooting and probability
  11. Stats 101: Chapter 1

April 2008

  1. Hitting or Pitching. Which wins more games?
  2. CONTEST: Preliminary Discussion of the “Best Internet Conspiracy Theory”
  3. CO 2 and Temperature: which predicts which?
  4. It was bound to happen
  5. Why multiple climate model agreement is not that exciting
  6. Spanish Expedition

March 2008

  1. Tall men in planes
  2. Quantifying uncertainty in AGW
  3. Homework #1: Answer part II
  4. Homework #1: Answer part I
  5. Homework #1
  6. CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
  7. Maybe your parents were right
  8. Another reason to leave academia
  9. It depends what the meaning of mean means.
  10. Harmonica Convergence: classic column
  11. You cannot measure a mean
  12. Afternoon at GISS
  13. Titan TV’s short piece on the Heartland Conference
  14. Heartland Climate Conference Summary
  15. Heartland conference: day 3 and wrap up
  16. Heartland conference: day 2
  17. Heartland conference: day 1
  18. People take off their shirts when it gets hot: peer-reviewed study

February 2008

  1. The tyranny and hubris of experts
  2. The Top 50 Eco Blogs: from Times Online
  3. Today’s excuses for not posting
  4. Example of how easy it is to mislead yourself: stepwise regression
  5. Vegetarian Intestines
  6. An excuse I hadn’t thought of
  7. Statistics’ dirtiest secret
  8. 800 gram balls: Key words in my log files
  9. Consensus in science
  10. Do not calculate correlations after smoothing data
  11. Global Warming Stress Syndrome Increasing, Psychologist Says
  12. Can having a mammogram kill you? How to make decisions under uncertainty.
  13. How to look at the RSS satellite-derived temperature data
  14. Has atmospheric CO2 decreased? A different way to look at CO2 changes
  15. Mandatory suicide to reduce carbon footprint no joke
  16. San Francisco mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program begins
  17. Zombies no joke: global warming can cause anything
  18. Perspective

January 2008

  1. Zombie attacks might increase due to global warming, study shows
  2. You’re no climatologist! Or, who is allowed to criticize?
  3. Is climatology a pseudoscience?
  4. Best statistical, scientific talk on global warming
  5. New York Times debate on AGU statement
  6. Italian political tactics no different than Italian soccer tactics
  7. AMS conference report: day 4
  8. AMS conference report: day 3
  9. AMS conference report: day 2
  10. Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy
  11. National Post says statisticians needed too
  12. Great graph of religious majority of each county
  13. Statisticians global warming plea: don’t forget about us!
  14. Ralph Peters gets his stats right: the New York Times purposely misleads
  15. This is what happens when you allow actors to speak without a script
  16. What can we learn about global warming from poor reporting?
  17. A video worth watching
  18. First documented casualty of anthropogenic global warming
  19. Climatologists are nice people
  20. Reality overtakes satire once more: a legal joke goes by the board
  21. The Lancet’s poorly choosen statistics
  22. Greenpeace is shocked– shocked –to discover lobbying going on
  23. Congress Probes Celebrity Drug Ad Endorsements
  24. U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Skeptical Climate Scientists
  25. Hurricane paper featured on AIR-Worldwide
  26. Now only 32.8% of people believe the polls: Did New Hampshire let us down?
  27. An unfortunate loss of a good joke: leftist thinking finally overtakes math parody
  28. Don Imus sidekick makes a point with a failed joke
  29. A safe, but misleading, prediction about global warming
  30. Asinine comparison of holocaust deniers and honest scientists
  31. Mr. Word’s definition of the day: to change
  32. How much does winning Iowa and New Hampshire help?
  33. Mr. Word’s definition of the day: to gush
  34. 73.2% of Likely Voters Believe Poll Results
  35. Oil prices through time: a well-done graph
  36. Frank Furedi on the global warming apocalypse
  37. Calculated Risks: How to know when numbers deceive you: Gerd Gigerenzer

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December 2007

  1. Hurricanes have not increased: misuse of running means
  2. Were the cannonballs on or off the road first?
  3. Will Smith on reprogramming Hitler
  4. How many false studies in medicine are published every year?
  5. Technorati post
  6. Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25 That, in Order Not to Offend, Shall Remain Nameless
  7. Two differences in perception between global cooling and global warming
  8. The impossibility of there being no truth.
  9. Can increasing fuel economy standards result in more gas consumed?
  10. What is the environment ?
  11. Hostage ads are cancelled.
  12. You have to die of something: or, COPD deaths “skyrocket”
  13. Waywardrobot.com
  14. “The Future of Everything” by David Orrell
  15. 12 million kids are being held hostage by a psychiatric disorder
  16. Another attempt to show abstinence is bad: “Losing virginity early or late tied to health risks”
  17. Beer: alcohol, calories, and carbs
  18. Never use bar charts! Case study #1
  19. How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #2
  20. Why most statistics don’t mean what you think they do: Part II.
  21. Why most statistics don’t mean what you think they do: Part I.
  22. Hurricanes have not increased in the North Atlantic
  23. The Algebra of Probable Inference: Richard T. Cox
  24. How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #1

November 2007

  1. Celebrities can teach us everything we need to know
  2. Save the animals!

October 2007

  1. The Rationality of Induction: David Stove

July 2007

  1. Oh, for a carreau!

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December 2006

  1. Worst Science Fiction of All Time

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