#Statistics

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if you’re not low income from a low income neighborhood i would suggest taking a seat from the minorities and military recruitment discourse idk fuck the military but yall a

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UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORDS—a thread; 1. Mathematics - Sipnayan2. Arithmetic - Bilnuran3. Science - Agham4. Biology - Haynayan5. Chemistry - Kapnayan 6. Thermodynamics - Initsigan7. Statistics - Palautatan8. Calendar -

Stefan Kertesz, MD

StefanKertesz

1/great piece by @CarlynZwaren addresses how we misconstrue associations between substance use and homelessness. The stories we tell, often enough, are “my addiction made me homeless”https://filtermag.org/drugs-homelessness/ https://twi

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

The main problem with statistics is the concept of the null hypothesis. @nntaleb Replacement concept: Space of possibilities. Example:COVID: Which disease is the "null hypothesis" Flu? SARS?Correct: Consider the space

Josh Pearman

psipear

Something about this quote from a book on meta-analyses feels odd to me: "Contrary to common belief, [Hedges] findings showed that there was as much variability across studies in physics

Chris Hatton

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In time for the @HumanRightsCtte session, @NHSEngland have just published statistics on COVID-19 deaths of people with learning disabilities from the LeDeR programme. They are herehttps://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/covid-19-deaths-of-pa

Keith Stuart

keefstuart

BBC Breakfast report on the PlayStation 25th anniversary this morning - instead of assessing the cultural impact of the machine we get the same old references to violence and how

jace

noottaken

pezzey quotes thread helphttps://twitter.com/noottaken/status/1309380196617908226 “maybe you’re just coded by dream” about me having both techno and dream traits “jacenoblade” HAHAHAHAH “where my dreamnappers at” “according

Bijit Chowdhury

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This current #COVID2019 data taken from http://worldometers.info shows:1. India's Total tests are more than some W.European nations2. Countries with more cases have lesser tests done than IndiaPpl who doubt India's

Feminist Witch

DonCorleANN

I always go for opportunities I am not even qualified for. I apply do my research and do the work brilliantly. This one time I decided to apply for something

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LynnFynn3

(1) I’ll say this once, as it’s my wheelhouse, and I’m being asked by everyone who knows me. Re: Coronavirus stats and hysteria, it’s garbage- all of the data is

Justin Trudeau

JustinTrudeau

In order for our economy to reopen, we need to be able to quickly detect and control any future outbreaks through testing, contact tracing, and data collection. That’s why our

יובל־עזרא

lezbianke

Progesterone is kicking in so I'm a bit drowsy as I write this out, so please be forgiving as I rant about transmisogyny! I think the part that's most difficult

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

THREAD: Chatting with @chrischirp about why the UK hasn’t seen Covid cases rise on the same scale as many other countries.Has the government actually got something right? Probably not. Instead

Jonathan Portes

jdportes

This is absolutely correct. Equally, it devalues political discourse if we treat normal "spin", misdirection, selective use of facts (as practiced by all politicians) as equivalent to deliberate lies. Journalists

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And I bring this up to put into context just what a big deal it is that @SeananMcGuire just got her 13th nomination in the four classic fiction categories.She's done