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The Ecological Fallacy(blog.statwing.com)
60 points by glaugh 14y ago|20 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
Fwiw, the joy I get from watching sports is sort of similar to the joy I get from music (I love both). They're both fine to do alone, but in significant part they're excuses to get together with people and feel together. Sort of similarly,
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by glaugh 14y ago
As an American English speaker I find it delightful to read or hear occasionally. For me it's a nice, occasional reminder that groups are made up of individuals.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Went in there with the aim of exploring the trees question, and hypothesized there might be relationships between that and obvious demographic questions. The "crankiness" bit was much more driven by exploratory analysis. We take a fairly pr
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by glaugh 14y ago
Didn't dive into it in the post, but we settled the survey-entry-mistake hypothesis to our satisfaction by looking only at the responses that were gathered via phone (about 1/4 of the dataset) and finding that the same trends still held tru
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by glaugh 14y ago
Good find. That makes a lot of sense. Added a note about this at the bottom of the blog post.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Agreed. Sorry we didn't act on this sooner.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Yeah, it was city data. Thanks for the clarification about the rudeness, though I took no offense at the time. Cheers!
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by glaugh 14y ago
We don't have any real data to support it, but I'm a fan of the hypothesis that at least some people are answering this question with the survey's ultimate use in mind. Anyone know of any good research around that kind of validity issue? Ad
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by glaugh 14y ago
OP here. Thanks for the comments. For readability's sake we did not present the statistical side of the results, but they were unambiguous for everything we mentioned in the post. Perhaps in the future we should present those results in foo
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by glaugh 14y ago
Fair point. Any suggestions for a sorta silly label for a group that genuinely doesn't like trees? Went with lumberjacks to avoid saying anything overly disparaging, but it's not great.
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Those Who Care Not For Trees(blog.statwing.com)
64 points by glaugh 14y ago|40 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
Super interesting. A few of those r-squareds are really high. It'd be interesting to see if there's any products for which state-level usage predicts voting for Obama but individual-level usage does the opposite (as is true with wealth: ht
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by glaugh 14y ago
Ah, I missed your update, thanks for posting that. I guess we can't be totally sure that the red light tickets in question are automated. But it seems pretty likely given that Baltimore does have automated red light ticketing ( http://citys
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Baltimore Parking Tickets Revisited(blog.statwing.com)
29 points by glaugh 14y ago|9 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
Could not agree more. Most stats tools are so complicated that one spends more time learning/thinking about the logistics of running an analysis ("Should I run a chi-squared or a Fisher's Exact Test? And how do I get it to run?") than about
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by glaugh 14y ago
Nutt also wrote a pretty solid book about the data on the harms of various drugs (legal and illegal), and how best to reduce that harm as a society. http://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Without-Hot-David-Nutt/dp/190686... edit: Economist review of
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by glaugh 14y ago
For what it's worth, about 15% of last batch had only one founder: http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi...
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by glaugh 14y ago
Awesome! That's really cool. Time is tricky. That's among our most requested features, though. So we won't get to it in the very very near future, but its definitely on the roadmap. Thanks for the comments, really appreciate it!
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by glaugh 14y ago
Really good idea. We should definitely do that.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Unfortunately not. While there's nothing particularly identifying about the dataset, we collected this data with the understanding that we wouldn't do that. Sorry!
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A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch(blog.statwing.com)
118 points by glaugh 14y ago|38 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
Cofounder here. Totally agree that the hardest thing about data analysis is getting the data together. But it's still true that once you have data, working with SPSS, R, etc. is a nightmare unless you're trained or somewhat technical. I act
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by glaugh 14y ago
Appreciate that feedback. Sounds like getting data in is the theme of this whole page of discussion, too. We agree. Hooking into existing sources of data will probably always need to be a big priority for us. Certainly not an easy challenge
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How Statwing (YC S12) Makes It Easier To Ask Questions About Data (techcrunch.com)
67 points by glaugh 14y ago|14 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
My wife is our biggest fan, harshest critic, and our first customer. Also, she's kind of our den mother. It's not particularly easy to spend this much time apart, but she's a champ about it. We would not be the same company without her.
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by glaugh 14y ago
This would indeed be super cool. Could definitely see us getting to this eventually.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Agreed that if you spend most of your day most days doing analysis of large datasets you probably need a power tool. But there's a whole class of overlooked folks who need to do statistical analysis on smaller datasets on more of a weekly o
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by glaugh 14y ago
Good call RE the tooltip. Just for reference, everything's at 95% confidence. We do mention that in the Advanced output but it's perhaps a bit too hidden.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Definitely let us know if you think of their name or dig up their blog post. Sounds interesting.

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