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by ppod 6y ago
Just to be clear about what actually happened, the results were weighted on a per-school basis, based on results from the previous four years. The disparity in weighting is not solely down to effects at the top of the distribution.
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by ppod 6y ago
>Student populations have a fixed number of grades awarded every year, etc. Yes, for the national cohort. This is different, the predicted results were weighted on a per-school basis. For example, a particular child taking, say, a histor
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by ppod 6y ago
You're making very strong statements over a huge assumption that you have no data to back up. This is not like previous years. The students sat no exam, they were ranked within their school, and then assigned grades based on the previo
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by ppod 6y ago
Quantitative social science (which maybe a lot of comp bio people might regard as a "softer" science) has really made huge strides in moving this kind of analysis to R. Of course one person can't change it, but those with hig
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by ppod 6y ago
>ridiculous hubris >definitely not using any of them
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by ppod 6y ago
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20154294v... The case rate has dropped faster as the restrictions have eased.
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by ppod 6y ago
You sound very confident. There are some epidemiologists at the University of Oxford who disagree with your definitions. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20154294v...
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by ppod 6y ago
Yes, I admit that the part where I said there were no hazards and that it was safe to get infected with the virus was wrong.
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by ppod 6y ago
Cases are low and falling in New York, Sweden, London, Italy, Spain, despite varying and loosening social distancing measures. How do you explain that? Those places already have herd immunity. Serotesting for antibodies misses t-cell immuni
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by ppod 6y ago
I like your blog format, is the code available? It looks like one of the RMarkdown themes a bit?
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by ppod 6y ago
>grades from past grads at their school to predict what they would have scored had the pandemic not prevented in-person tests Wait, this is like reverse affirmative action, no? Students at schools that previously performed badly will hav
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by ppod 6y ago
"Personally I feel the Gray Tribe is just as annoying as the Gray Lady"/ "Well the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to both". https://xkcd.com/774/
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by ppod 6y ago
I think Dingle is bigger than and west of Clifden.
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by ppod 6y ago
Off-topic question: Is Livewire comparable with RShiny, and is there anything that would let me do what Livewire does in python?
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by ppod 6y ago
It's surprisingly hard to find practical in-depth pandas code examples like this.
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by ppod 6y ago
That's an illusory distinction.
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by ppod 6y ago
Do you think this study would have been published if Trump had loudly proclaimed that Hydroxychlorine was dangerous and should be avoided?
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by ppod 6y ago
It's difficult to summarise but the last 30 minutes is where they have a really good argument, starting about here: https://youtu.be/Boj9eD0Wug8?t=3981 It gets quite philosophical, and hinges on whether people basicall
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by ppod 6y ago
What has happened to Wired? Zuckerberg goes into the principles behind these kind of decisions in depth, in his own words, in a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari that for some reason nobody ever mentions: https://www.youtube.co
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by ppod 6y ago
The problem I have with this stuff is that I just can't imagine how bad it could possibly be if sea levels rose even three meters over the next hundred years.
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by ppod 6y ago
Thanks for the response, I misunderstood the flagging process.
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by ppod 6y ago
Of course. As I said, I'm not asking what rights they have. I'm asking what you think. If you were youtube, would you ban this video?
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by ppod 6y ago
Of course, but I'm not asking about what rights distributors should have, I'm asking normatively whether a distributor should ban people like this.
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by ppod 6y ago
The article is also borderline misleading, as initially I thought their real names had been posted. All that was posted was a list of which users are common moderators of large subreddits. If they are getting abuse to their accounts, the pr
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by ppod 6y ago
Yeah, I don't even think it has to be mob, it's just one of those things that happens as a site becomes more mainstream. Ironically it's related to the same issue as the submission: people equate permitting something to condo
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by ppod 6y ago
Well ok. The reason I changed it was because I thought the original was too sensational
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by ppod 6y ago
Do you think that such people should be banned from content distribution channels?
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by ppod 6y ago
Is there any way if I can find out why my submission is flagged? The last thing I submitted was also flagged (and then unflagged), but I have tried to abide by the submission guidelines.
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YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy(unherd.com)
390 points by ppod 6y ago|551 comments
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by ppod 6y ago
As I interpret it, the charts show a comparison of the change between two periods in 2020, compared to the average change over the same two periods in the previous five years. I can't see much difference between the trends this year an

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