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by JamesBarney 4y ago
The OP's post is from a hospital, your post links to a survey from a "Men's Fitness" magazine.
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by JamesBarney 4y ago
> * America's most obese city It's now #27th. This is mostly driven by being suburban, southern, relatively poorer city. > * A huge sprawl with bad traffic and poor public transportation There are only a few cities in the U.
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by JamesBarney 4y ago
New York, New York – 8,467,513 - 450k Los Angeles, California – 3,849,297 - 710k Chicago, Illinois – 2,696,555 - 252k Houston, Texas – 2,288,250 - 192k Phoenix, Arizona – 1,624,569 - 308k Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1,576,251 - 240k San An
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by JamesBarney 4y ago
Every large city has a desirable neighborhood with million dollar lots. But if you look at # of houses within 15 minutes of downtown that cost less than 200k. Houston is one of few that's still affordable.
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This is a fun off the cuff guess but if you look at a Zillow it's not true. Houses the same distance from the center of town are significantly more expensive in Austin. Everyone I know who moved from Houston to Austin moved twice as fa
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If you're assuming a global workforce this would mean the representative share of African Americans would be 0.5%
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The problem is whether or not they chose to get a colonoscopy is a confounding variable which inflates the value of the colonoscopy when some of the results are driven by other attributes.
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I don't think you need strict utilitarianism. I think you just need to believe two believe the following to be mostly an effective altruist. 1. Helping two people is better than helping one 2. Helping one person a lot is better than he
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4 sections on how it's tricky to measure economic productivity. One tiny section on how easy it would be to run an economy wide correlational well being study with product use, whole ignoring the multitude of problems with that. The bi
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The problem is you can't run a study on colonoscopies that doesn't involve an invitation without forcing people to get a colonoscopy at gun point. Which would both be illegal and never pass an IRB.
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Participation is a confounding variable if you compare the subset of invitation group that participated with the control group instead of the invitation to the control group. That's the whole reason they use intent to treat. Lifelong c
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by JamesBarney 4y ago
I like a profit sharing bonus. I think it helps people feel like they are benefiting from the company growing and doing well. I think it increases retention because you are less likely to leave if a bonus is coming up. If a company has a re
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The study results are "colonoscopies do not lead to a reduction in colon cancer mortality". Reporting that isn't misleading that's what the study says. Basically in the treated group of 1103 of every 10,000 people died.
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When everyone invited for a colonoscopy is compared to the control group 42% showed up and got a colonoscopy 18% fewer people got colon cancer same number of people died of colon cancer When everyone who got a colonoscopy is compared to th
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by JamesBarney 4y ago
The gold standard is the invitation. Imagine a study where you try to get one group of people to exercise, and you leave the other alone as a control group. Imagine you find that everyone who actually does the exercise lives much longer. T
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House prices are pretty sticky, it takes a long time and a lot of downward pressure for housing prices to fall. No one wants to take a loss on their house.
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I always thought the point of organic chemistry was to be a weed out course for med students. Most doctors I know don't know jack shit about organic chemistry. They're operating at a level of abstraction much much higher.
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If you look at all the positive benefits of exercise you find very few people who don't get some positive benefit from exercise whether that's better insulin sensitivity, better vO2 max, better cholesterol, or weight loss. But whe
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Yeah I definitely remember the "i didn't marry an emotional man" talk from my wife.
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Both of you guys are relying one data point. If you look at the literature on exercise adaptation you actually find a incredibly large variance in the response. There are a decent amount of people, who just don't adapt to exercise.
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But if a bad actor wants to know what's detectable they can just put each malware on separate domains.
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A bad actor can do the same thing by putting together Mybadpage1.com Mybadpage2.com Mybadpage3.com
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Bad actors know 1. It's detected (because Microsoft told everyone) 2. What was detected and where it was (because they put it there) Good Actors only know 1. So by telling someone 2 they are giving bad actors no new information, and go
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This is an exaggeration for clicks. We've since discovered that amyloid beta is probably not the cause. At least isn't very casual, or has sophisticated causality by the time we start treating people. It's also true there wer
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I appreciate the candor that Aline has shown in this write up. >Practically speaking, I’ve learned that creating some amount of friction is necessary when you’re asking people to promise to pay you ~$1000 in the future. Removing that fri
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This is why so many sex workers prefer decriminalization to legalization. Because many times legalization comes with these shotgun laws that prevent anyone from helping out a sex worker in any way without facing legal consequences that were
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> Women oppose legalized sex work at higher rates than men, because they’d be the ones who would encounter social pressure to do sex work in tough economic circumstances if it became normalized. There is a huge leap from "the majori
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How many offshore workers did you work with? I worked with plenty and there were lots of guys who lived modestly and saved a ton. But there were plenty of guys making 200k living paycheck to paycheck.
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This was a bunch of offshore workers. Make 14k in two weeks while offshore, not have a dime to their name 2 weeks later when they're going back out.
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Economics has a concept called "revealed preferences" which is the idea that you can better understand what someone values by what they do as opposed to what they say. So in a scenario where someone says "climate change is an

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