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by glofish 7y ago
There are fields of science that have banned certain statistical measures: Psychology journal bans P values https://www.nature.com/news/psychology-journal-bans-p-values... I happen to agree with the sentiment expressed
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by glofish 7y ago
I disagree here strongly. It is not the best option. Statistics has become the tool of obfuscation and making exaggerated claims. Compare the two statements: "10 out of 80 people that took the drug lived a month longer but were extreme
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by glofish 7y ago
you have to bend the truth because it would not work otherwise at all. Your distribution is not normal - it almost never is, now you have to argue that the method is still robust - there is no proof that is indeed robust as you claim. Then
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by glofish 7y ago
So I think we settled the "tax" question. It is not a tax after all. Now, if you are born having high aptitudes for programming it is ok to make more money? If you are born pretty is not ok to make more money in some jobs?
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by glofish 7y ago
I think the downvotes are because you jump to conclusions and the conclusion is "the government did it and covered it up". Sounds super kooky. The science in the link is interesting, but note how it does not talk about why it happ
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by glofish 7y ago
no, unfortunately, it is not about lack of education walk into any university, go from one faculty office to another, ask each professor what a p-value is and the overwhelming majority won't give you even a half-decent definition (I d
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by glofish 7y ago
the problem is that in many (most cases?) even trained scientist would have a hard time deciding which statements are statistically valid. There are endless ways to be unintentionally obscure, to semi-intentionally obfuscate or to just flat
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by glofish 7y ago
It is a 17th-century concept applied to 21st-century data collection. Plus it gets misused all the time - even by statisticians that should know better.
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by glofish 7y ago
I am fairly sure that most people don't like tipping they feel that you are being "coerced" to pay more. If the tipping would be about paying less (i.e. you may reduce this bill 20% if you did not like the service) do you hon
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by glofish 7y ago
but what if those people are already paid well? not that I know, but it is so easy to be an armchair general, that has all kinds of opinions on how to run a restaurant
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by glofish 7y ago
How does tipping a pretty girl become as you say "a tax collected from black, ugly or fat girls"? If you said there is an "unfair" advantage I get that (not that I agree but at least I understand). What I don't get,
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by glofish 7y ago
This is a false analogy. You can choose to go to a different restaurant, you can't choose to deal with another government. Hence the rules should be different. The rules and regulations of a governmental agency do not need to have any
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by glofish 7y ago
it is not a good analogy, you can't immediately tell that a piece of code is good or bad. If you could tell that in 10 minutes, if you could separate a good coder from bad just like that, tipping would improve coding as well. Tipping i
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by glofish 7y ago
This is about intent and responsibility. Under what circumstances is one responsible for someone else's acts. Just because you hire someone to do something illegal, you are not responsible for all the illegal acts the other person migh
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by glofish 7y ago
> In the US, you pay for your meal + tax + 15% tip and call it a day. Yeah, I think this is what Europeans have such a hard time with - why should you pay more than what the sticker says. In US we accept that more readily, because the c
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by glofish 7y ago
Tipping is something completely different. I have come to believe that in America tipping is to recognize acceptable service. It is a feedback mechanism to weed out, to mark and penalize undesirable behaviors. The best people to make that d
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by glofish 7y ago
A well-intentioned misconception at work here. Really ... in what other circumstance would you ever reward an "extraordinary" accomplishment with a mere 15-20% bonus. What extraordinary thing costs just 15% more than the regular,
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by glofish 7y ago
Really, your problem is over attentiveness? That someone comes over a few times to ask you if you something? What I found immensely insincere and fake is exactly the European style. There is this pomp, where initially the waiter is expected
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by glofish 7y ago
Having traveled extensively in Europe I will say that I came to believe that the American wait staff is more attentive, more courteous and more friendly by large margins. I am talking casual dining here, Applebee, TGI Friday, etc level of
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by glofish 7y ago
I don't get it - if you are fine paying the exact same amount why does it bother you to add that as a tip? I can understand people that say that the cost of meals are in fact misrepresented because you are expected to tip. But if that
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by glofish 7y ago
Imagine you hire someone to mow your lawn, they accidentally destroy the neighbors' lawn, run over their dog, then set their house on fire. Also, they were drunk and on the way home from the job drove into a crowd of people. Should you
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by glofish 7y ago
there are other interesting variations to this. Someone hires a hitman - the hitman kills a different person by accident. Is the contract giver guilty? They never intended any harm to the person that got killed. etc. law is a funny business
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by glofish 7y ago
I can go to my Google photos, type a query for a: car, bike, chair. It will produce many images that do contain the object in question. It is amazing how well it works. But then it will also produce photos that have nothing even similar to
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by glofish 7y ago
As framed above the story is little more than make-you-feel-good if you get rejection. The data makes sense only in the following contexts: - How many accepted papers did win the Nobel Prize? - How many rejected papers did not win the
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by glofish 7y ago
I have never heard of submission fees. There is plenty wrong with the "scientific publication" process as it is firmly rooted in the 19th-century mentality, but submission fees are not among the problems.
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by glofish 7y ago
Let's not jump the gun here. It just shows that there is more to nutrition than simply calories in and calories out. Changing the size of algae alters the way it gets utilized by zooplankton. That is a far cry from an actual "coll
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by glofish 7y ago
having read the article I agree with only one point that the author makes: once Perl is removed from the default installs, it will lose one of its advantages, being there and working by default. People will likely shy away from installing a
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by glofish 7y ago
One thing I have learned is that when it comes to mass media articles the best bet is to always do the opposite they are saying. Like "George" in Seinfeld, they are most of the time wrong, thus doing the opposite is right.
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by glofish 7y ago
The problem is that you are conflating things. The only explanation for observing 1000 coin flips coming up as heads is that something other than random chance made that happen. Simply observing a series of events does not immediately expla
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by glofish 7y ago
I think that your example shows an unexpected outcome, but not as shockingly so as the examples that it replies to. The naive (and incorrect) deduction that one might make is that you start with 1/365 chance, so by adding twenty people

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