thanatosmin

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   Thinking Like a Statistician: Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’(simplystatistics.org)

   3 points by thanatosmin 12y ago|0 comments
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   by thanatosmin 12y ago

   Yes.
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   by thanatosmin 12y ago

   Reading the original paper, they compare Botswana and S Africa and find a correlation between seroprevalence and viral load. There is not good evidence to suggest this is causative however--this may be, for example, that as you get to highe
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   by thanatosmin 12y ago

   Unfortunately this seems to be what a lot of people strive to do, then burn out or can never really produce impactful research. Sleep, rest, relaxation, are absolutely essential to creative work. You needn't be good at everything, but
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   by thanatosmin 13y ago

   This isn't really on how to make fake data look meaningful, but rather how to make useless data look meaningful. If you can fake the data, then there's no need for these misleading analyses.