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by stdbrouw 7y ago
Bias entails the misrepresentation of a population, but "for me" implies that the population consists of only himself, so the term bias is nonsensical in this context.
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
I don't see how this schema enforces double-entry accounting. You can specify an entry with a debit, and another with a credit, but they are not linked, their amounts are not necessarily equal and you're not required to simultaneo
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
Very much depends on what kind of science we're thinking about. Sociology and psychology have become much more interesting now that we've ditched the obnoxious tradition of trying to subsume every finding under a theory of everyth
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
Its more commonly used name is the (formula for the) standard deviation of the sample mean.
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
For those interested in the origins of the standard error in statistics, "The Most Dangerous Equation" by Howard Wainer is a good, short read: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255612702_The_Most_...
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
There's nothing problematic about accepting the null hypothesis, it's just that instead of controlling for Type I error, you need to control for Type II error, i.e. ensure sufficient power.
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
If you think broad skepticism or criticism of a scientific study based on class characteristics is admissible (some statistical investigations are poorly conducted, so this one might be poor too), why not trust based on class characteristic
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
This particular flavor of skepticism does not promote thoroughness and responsibility, in fact it promotes laziness: "Why read (or even skim) through the article when I can just state these five ways in which the article might be bad a
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
But it can be equally malicious to just drop generic potential shortcomings of scientific studies, without any attempt to figure out whether they apply to the specific study under discussion.
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
That's actually the part that I found a little bit ironic (though I very much enjoyed the post), considering that the author links to and praises a study that points out that many A/B tests result in illusory wins because growth t
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
You point out p-values can be troubling because there's all sorts of bad incentives that lead to p-hacking and publication bias. The author points out that even if those bad incentives didn't exist, p-values aren't all that u
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
If I put myself on the other side of the hiring table, I would have the common decency to give someone at least a little bit of feedback if they gave up more than a full day of their time to wrestle themselves through our convoluted hiring
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
In Python, if you're running 3.7.1 then you're also running the standard library for 3.7.1. Sure, I guess it would be possible for a programming language to decouple these things so that it's possible to ask for a particular
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
When you're trying to haggle down the price, you can put back the goods you're interested in, in order to show that at a particular price point it's a no go for you. If the seller doesn't respond by offering a lower pric
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
These seem like rather insular concerns. "He takes some stuff from Marx but he's not quite Marxist enough, ergo he's wrong."
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
> the company is based in Quebec, in a suburb of Montreal
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> As someone who obtained their Master's in Physics, I have to agree with the article. The breadth and depth of my scientific training has made me a much more capable data scientist (and engineer) than most of my peers who went the
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
The author uses the example as a cautionary tale, not as something laudable.
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
It's just a voice. You can dislike it without having to get worked up about it.
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> Scientific method is a great tool - for the type of questions that it is designed to deal with - and a disaster waiting to happen if used for other areas of inquiry. What other areas of inquiry would that be?
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> It seems difficult to imagine that hordes of industrial engineers haven't done the calculations on each of these methods countless times at all car manufacturing companies. Difficult to believe unless you've ever worked in an
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> There are other handwaving statements towards vaccines, global warming, and GMO It's not entirely clear from the layout, but that bit of content is a kind of "info box", a bit of extra information that in a printed magaz
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
If I eat a snickers bar and afterwards I'm still hungry, I'm not necessarily going to eat another snickers bar. If I eat a very flavorful salad but perhaps am not feeling quite satiated, next time I'm not necessarily going to
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
You're reading way more into that quote than what it actually says. "Happiness" in this context is not in-the-moment satisfaction of primal urges, it's about how you feel about your life in general, which includes what y
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
I think you meant probability instead of likelihood. That is: it may be true that most criminals in an area are of a certain race; that says nothing about the probability of a single person of that race being a criminal because you'd n
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> Let's say Super Micro is right Yet we still don't know whether this is the case, so it's not even clear whether "consequences" are in order and whether incompetence is at play. You can't prosecute someone
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
How exactly are truck drivers, provincial plumbers, builders, deliverymen, teachers and parents parents on the edge of French society? How are their lives being made harder?
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
The interpretation of interaction terms (and first-order terms in the presence of interactions) is something that is taught to bachelor students in the social sciences all the time. I'm not going to say it's entirely straightforwa
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
Hm, I agree with what you're saying, but your example is pretty whack: (1) in a logistic regression the coefficients are on a log scale ergo the ratio between exp(2) and exp(1) is actually x2.7, not x2; the bigger issue is that you hav
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it. Um, that's the definition of "arbitrary".

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