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"Bunch of people" doesn't seem like a good characterization considering he's at least partially responding to Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine and bios
by brianpan 3y ago
"Bunch of people" doesn't seem like a good characterization considering he's at least partially responding to Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine and biostatistician at Harvard and a co-author of the GBD.
- jfengel 3y agoA biostatistician who told this professional stats guy to go consult a statistician after taking a guess at a confounding variable. He could have run those numbers himself, but apparently didn't bother, because Silver took him up on it and Kulldorff was completely wrong. It would be less egregious if it has been a bunch of random people. It was someone who really should have known better. Instead, it provides more evidence that Kulldorff is seeking to confirm an ideological position and tossing his medical and biostatistical accomplishments aside to do it.
- Aeolun 3y ago> Instead, it provides more evidence that Kulldorff is seeking to confirm an ideological position and tossing his medical and biostatistical accomplishments aside to do it. Nobody is immune to this. It’s just more frustrating when their ideological position is opposed to yours.
- jfengel 3y agoNobody is immune to this. But he really did fail to do an easy test. Someone with his level of experience should have been able to make a challenge that wasn't trivial to refute, and being insulting in the process. Especially since he happens to be in the thick of a position that is easily accused of being anti science. One would think that makes it doubly incumbent not to make such trivial errors.