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by i_love_limes 4y ago
Epidemiologist in training here... There are quite a few comments in this thread already jumping on the 'correlation != causation' train. While that is true, I'd like to clarify a couple things: 1. The journal article didn&#
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by i_love_limes 4y ago
It links to the actual paper if you are interested, the paper has a whole table of covariates it took into consideration. https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-... I don't think the paper or
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
So, there are quite a few well known metrics for this in the public health world * Years of Life Lost (YLL) * Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) * Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) They are calculated in an interesting way that is open
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
The most salient aspect of this article for me was this: "Graeber asserts that the barter myth implies humans have always had a sort of quid pro quo, exchange-based mentality, since barter is just a less efficient version of money. But
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The Myth of the Barter Economy (2016)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by i_love_limes 5y ago|1 comments
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
This unfortunately didn't answer any of my questions.
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
I have a question for other former/current employees of Amazon. I worked there for 4 years on the AIV / Prime Video platform across a few teams (2012-2016). Obviously we had performance reviews every year, and I did ok. I transf
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
This is a very popular and quite detailed pop science book on sleep written by a prof of neuroscience: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
I don't know how many people here have interacted with toddlers on phones, but I'm not sure this will take off. The thing that kids love about communicating on mobile phones is video . They love to see themselves and love to see
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
I think by your definition, the best wine is grape juice, which is never vinegary and never gives you a headache.
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
This article doesn't talk about another really interesting aspect of the Atacama. Many observatories are set up there, as it's one of the best places in the world for stargazing, and The reason it's so good is due to the lac
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
I am just an interested layman, but I have found Historians as prime examples of academics who get this balance right. This, to me, seems to be because they have to squarely level with their own biases and preconceived ideas of what they a
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by i_love_limes 5y ago
This has been a hot topic of research in the public health community, and from more legitimate researchers there is still a lot of debate. However this kind of move is striking in it's similarity to the known tried and tested maneuver
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Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal(prospect.org)
501 points by i_love_limes 5y ago|386 comments
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
Do you not feel the issues of commercialization and scientific quality are more closely linked? The state of quantity over quality in academic publishing, which is a force that is compounded by commercially focused journals, does not incent
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
If I could buy an NFT of the source code of this, would I have reached peak blockchain meta?
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
I have read elsewhere that possibly another good starting point to think about Bitcoin is via the "Keynesian Beauty Content" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest This is additionally interes
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
Explorations hits a great spot for me. But Village Vanguard is probably my fav.
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
As a slight tangent... has a successor to couchsurfing gained any traction yet? It is such a great concept, and one that can still provide so many great experiences.
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
They do that already... Distinguishing between 'results' and 'discussion'...
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
You started off with the idea that research papers "can't tell you what should be done", which it seems like you disagree with now? > 'Discussion' is normally an invitation to scientific discussion, not a politic
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
Ehhh, most studies in this realm have a 'results' section and 'discussion' section. I disagree that experts in their field can't have an opinion laid out in the discussion section, given that it follows from the an
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
Apologies, the distinction wasn't some Vs all, it was that they hadn't even considered how the information got there. Then when they found out, they were immediately sceptical of the idea. Which was hilarious. But also, unless y
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
I'll add my own anecdote. I have donated to Wikipedia sporadically over the years, and they asked me to take part in a sort of round table interview / qualitative study. In a room of other Wikipedia donators , maybe 1/3 of
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
SARS and MERS didn't reach anywhere close to spreading through the population, so cross immunity (if it's strong, which we don't know), wouldn't have done much. The fact that you bring that up as a rebuttal is telling. O
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
I'm not arguing it's not complex or that a lot of factors go into the response. I am however suggesting your original claim that non pharmaceutical interventions had little effect is demonstrably false. Comparing the 1 death in
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
The first point is already demonstrably false. Similar countries right next to each other have different death tolls in the order of multiples (Sweden vs. other Nordics). Also, similar geographic and demographic countries have performed va
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
I agree far more with the top response to that quote than I do to the quote.
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
I think a lot of people (myself included when I've felt the pressure to) lowball how long things like this take because a) it makes me look smart and b) people could judge of they knew who much time I actually wasted on it.
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by i_love_limes 6y ago
So when was this pinnacle of education, out of curiosity? It's interesting you mention meritocracy, considering how classist education has always been

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