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by learnstats2 6y ago
> If you can take these tools and show that any of the truths presented in this article are false This is not the opposite of taking those as axiomatic truths. You're also calling them truths and saying it's on me (as a novic
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Something like $0.10 / second This is a low enough cost that I bet people would use and hold their horn for longer, to show their annoyance in $.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
When I lived on a similar main road, I ended up with some form of noise turned up as loud as possible (to attempt to mute sirens), and I wore ear plugs to minimise that, and I still occasionally got woken up by the vibration of a large or l
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Do you know how it is taught in graduate programs? If a professor presents these assumptions as "truths" (as they have done, quite literally, via this article), graduate students are strongly disincentivized from thinking abo
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by learnstats2 6y ago
It appears to me that Cowen has set out (his own right-wing understanding of) assumptions underlying macroeconomics, in line with the editorial position of Bloomberg. The assumptions are set in stone before you can begin to do macroeconomic
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> In short, it doesn’t do anything. > “positioned to deliver a potentially impactful payload at a moment’s notice.” In my view, these are contradictory statements. It hasn't done anything (according to evidence at the time of w
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Interesting to note that population of central boroughs of London (which is used as a canonical example of population growth and overcrowding in Europe) is roughly half what they were 100 years ago. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Have you ever met an Uber driver who didn't give the impression that this was what he did all the time? My impression is that every Uber driver I have met, in the UK, was also working for a more traditional driver agency. I believ
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by learnstats2 6y ago
It's very possible that you would have been declared employed if you took it to a tribunal or if it was otherwise challenged. This happens plenty often. It's hard to tell from the information you have given us, but it sounds like
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I believe the UK already has one of the highest rates of animal experimentation in the world (if not the actual highest?), i.e. it's known to be relatively easy to get through ethics committees.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
This is being reported as if the challenge trial is giving people already-approved vaccines (also note the first stage of the trial is not even doing that step). As such, the benefit of deliberately infecting people over waiting for natural
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I don't need a control case to observe that the whale's movement pattern at least identifies the drawn wakes.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
The result here is that the whale's motion looks frantic, whether it is or not. We can't even tell whether the whale is really interacting with the ships, or interacting with their wake, whether it is really avoiding, or giving ch
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> $1 donated got multiplied millions of times in dev time saved. Love that trickle-down economics, Step 1: less time spent on dev tasks Step 2: ?????? Step 3: end war, end hunger
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I would agree, and this matches it to gold, also from Ray Dalio's perspective. Ray Dalio invested heavily into gold, and has since repeatedly press released that he had done so. It's the same characteristics as an MLM scheme.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Here Ray Dalio says he views Bitcoin as a gold-like asset. This is the first time I have felt that Bitcoin has some value: as a commodity that wealthy people put their wealth into when they have nothing better to do with it. People are not
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by learnstats2 6y ago
It can be powerful just to say something like: "I don't agree with that" Direct refutation of what they have said suggests that you are open to discussion in light of further evidence, and invites people to find new arguments
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by learnstats2 6y ago
The article also quotes the researcher explicitly denying the BBC’s headline suggesting causation. I downvoted all the popular comments here which were ready to agree with the causation despite the research making no comment on that at all:
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I guess that you haven't fully understood the complete problem space of everything that a teacher has to master in order to be effective, and everything that a school has to provide resources for (including other areas of training). Cl
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I personally know someone who turned down a payrise for this reason.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Even tiny sensitivity would be better than nothing Not if you imagine that one case on a plane = potential super-spreading event, the plane touches down and then newly infected people go in every direction. Your hypothetical test with
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by learnstats2 6y ago
The rapid antigen tests have a significant problem with false-negatives: the BMJ reported that Innova tests have 49% sensitivity. That makes it pointless to use as a border control - for every two cases, at least one gets through. (Or, pote
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Maintenance is relatively cheap and 2020 waiting lists were sometimes months long given the spike in riders forcing many to DIY. As another commenter has said - why don't shops charge according to the increased demand? This situat
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Do bike dealers not also make money from increased demand for services?
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by learnstats2 6y ago
That's what the headline is trying to imply; yet, the article makes it clear that other EU countries have equally granted emergency authorisations, within EU provisions for doing so.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
Precisely because we expect that Wikipedia has sourced this information, such as climate data, from a reliable location - i.e. not made it up for itself.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
>Stealing is also an economic crime then... no one should go to jail I completely agree?
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> One hell of a deterrent too. Psychology says no.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I find this principle useful - that a fine is just permission slip for people who can afford it. But, in terms of environmental crimes as discussed in these comments, the reason corporation dump toxic waste in the river is to avoid the clea
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> Is it possible to get my sequence from one of the commercial groups doing this, and then "look it up" in a genome reference to verify my brown eyes, for example? Yes and no. Brown eyes aren't controlled by a single gene,

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