#Causality

Very long Sunday thread on the extent to which we overestimated the Russian military, a bit about the war, and on how we should think about Russian military power. 1/
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[thread] on God as the necessary being. (remake) iA this thread will serve as a small introduction to key points in the discussion of philosophy. To start, we need to
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Another paper illustrating the limitations of the TWAS method which I think should lead to greater caution in using TWAS results to assign causality in genetic studieshttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.31.273458v2@MarylynRitchi
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how to lie with correlations: harley davidson limited edition.there has been a lot of aggressive talk about how sturgis was a massive super spreader eventcharts like this make it tempting
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Allow me to propose something from years of experience comparing solutions adopted in different systems (though not specifically with regard to the health sector) (thread)https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/uk-must-learn-from-german-respons
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Thread about activism and academic research (economics & political science in particular)There's a manipulation/intervention theory of causality, that causality is about what we could feasibly change through some hypothetical action
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So - how many of you have experienced this??? Ready for more??Dissolving the 3D PersonalityThe incarnated station of our identity that was our personality matrix, the aspect that was enmeshed
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1/ Stanford Epidemiologist Dr. Ioannidis C19 review 10/7/20 on: C19 infection fatality ratio, dying with or from C19, years of life lost, herd immunity, Tcell immunity, & lockdowns & collateral
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PROFESSOR GATO, back again with another look at the burning question of the day:do the current spate of unprecedented lockdowns and quarantines work to stop COV?the evidence from the US
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I spend much of my time navigating contrasting expert opinion and trying to adjust for biases, and to identify when expert consensus may be simply wrong. Here's the heuristics I
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I’m an adipose tissue biologist. I study sympathetic nerve action on adipocytes. This month is my first committee meeting since beginning to intensely read weight bias literature. I’m nervous to
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Lahir di keluarga miskin, apakah bisa tetap sukses pada saat dewasa? Sangat jarang terjadi. Berikut hasil studi kami di Indonesia @SMERUInstitute @ADBInstitute Rags to riches? Maybe not. Here is what
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Black holes are already pretty weird but things get even weirder when you factor in the fact that they spin!The maths implies that inside these black holes, causality breaks down,
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Á ĂČ rí’rĂș elĂ©yĂŹ rĂ­, a fiĂ­ dĂ© rĂč b’omo ni; unprecedented is just a word, there’s really nothing new under the sun!I am going to share with you snippets
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Does gender equality, beyond its inherent value, cause economic growth?This is hard to study in cross-country data, but here is a new and smart approach.A short thread on a new
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A lot of people are understandably confused about the word "univocity" and why we (MMT Humanities) think it's important to point out and critique. So here is a definition and
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