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by rhiever 12y ago
If you look in the methods, the experiment has been successfully reproduced twice after the initial trial with distinct cohorts of students.
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by rhiever 12y ago
An R^2 of 0.33 is a fairly decent correlation for a study involving human subjects. It's obviously not perfect, but the authors are not claiming that it's perfect.
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by rhiever 12y ago
Because they tried them, then decided to not continue trying them because they didn't correlate as well and were difficult and expensive to implement.
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Do Women on OkCupid Follow the Standard Creepiness Rule?(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
Check out the paper (Table 3) for significance statements: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480 Some of the trends in Part 1 are not statistically significant (e.g., "never attend church&quot
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by rhiever 12y ago
All of the differences highlighted are statistically significant (p < 0.05) in the multivariate model. So there's that. :-) The downside is that the paper only presents probabilities relative to a reference point, but doesn't g
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Where Democrats and Republicans want their tax dollars spent(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
That's a great idea! I've heard of researchers doing this kind of analysis to detect "hidden gems," i.e., papers that influenced papers that ended up becoming the big cited paper. The tough part, of course, is that most
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The Reddit world map – How to map out online social networks(randalolson.com)
74 points by rhiever 12y ago|12 comments
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Is 2014 becoming the most unpredictable year of college football?(randalolson.com)
1 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
Here is a rehost of the web page since it went down: https://i.imgur.com/rABtgo9.jpg
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by rhiever 12y ago
I was very worried until I noticed that. Damn my young adventurous years!
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What makes for a stable marriage?(randalolson.com)
152 points by rhiever 12y ago|135 comments
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Who are the climate change deniers?(randalolson.com)
1 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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Where the U.S. gets its oil from(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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The best and worst times to have your case reviewed by a judge(randalolson.com)
7 points by rhiever 12y ago|1 comments
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How to make beautiful data visualizations in Python with matplotlib(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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Average IQ of students by college major and gender ratio(randalolson.com)
4 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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Why the Dutch are so tall(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
Did you know that they're really only accurate a few days out? Despite the fact that most weather sites provide forecasts a week or two out.
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by rhiever 12y ago
Sure! That's valid. Just didn't want people to get confused. It's happened before. :-)
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by rhiever 12y ago
Different post. :-) That post was about the accuracy/reliability of various weather forecasting services for predicting rain. This one is about the accuracy of three weather forecasting methods and how far into the future they can pred
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We can only forecast the weather a few days into the future(randalolson.com)
5 points by rhiever 12y ago|7 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
I think you're right, and in that sense, maybe "accuracy" isn't the best word. "Reliability" might be the better word here.
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Accuracy of three major weather forecasting services(randalolson.com)
80 points by rhiever 12y ago|28 comments
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Relative volume and value of U.S. currency in circulation by bill denomination(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 12y ago|1 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
One plausible theory I've heard is that the early 1980s and the 1990s were a "boom" period for CS, particularly with the dot-com boom in the 1990s. CS saw huge spikes of enrollment during that period, and apparently a larger
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by rhiever 12y ago
"Even better" in the sense that there is actually a STEM field that has a slightly majority of women as majors, as compared to the rest that are below a 1:1 ratio. So it helps even out the ratio for STEM fields as a whole a little
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by rhiever 12y ago
Agreed, those charts do a great job of showing what's going on in CS. But it's also useful to look at percentages because college enrollment has gone up severely in the past decade, so the increase in the raw number of women in CS
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The double-edged sword of gender equality(randalolson.com)
6 points by rhiever 12y ago|1 comments

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