#Causation

Eric Matheny🎙

EricMMatheny

Fentanyl causes pulmonary edema; a buildup of fluid in the lungs. When George Floyd was shouting "I can't breathe," it's more likely than not that Floyd was experiencing the effects

Peter Cunliffe-Jones

PCunliffeJones

This great (& painstaking) factcheck by @dpfunke of a Covid-related FB post has me wondering how we best tackle harmful conspiracy theories like this. Makes me wonder if tackling them

David Gorski, MD, PhD

gorskon

It is truly depressing to see straw men arguments like this from academics. This is a straw man so massive that, were it to be set on fire, the crew

Daniela Witten

daniela_witten

FOUR CARDINAL RULES OF STATISTICS A thread 1/ ONE: CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. Yes, I know you know this, but it’s so easy to forget!Yeah, YOU OVER THERE, you

Jacob Olivey

OliveyJacob

Here goes...*draft KS3 curriculum*N.B. Most of it is built on fab work in @histassoc's Teaching History - by too many brilliant people to name here.Each enquiry is 3-6 lessons long

Jill↟

jetequitheory

so im not blaming the entire racing industry for zoë’s kissing spine. i have zero way of knowing if that’s the case. however, i do know from speaking w my

Robert Dingwall 🕷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Reunite

rwjdingwall

The widespread use of face coverings indoors was mandated from 8 August, following a more limited mandate from 24 July. Since then, we have seen a consistent upward drift in

Craig A. Carter

CraigACarter1

1/4. I just listened to N. T. Wright's podcast where he was asked about Open Theism & learned some amazing facts (sarc).1. God is in time waiting to see what

Captain Haddock

JXB101

In March 1930, Weimar Germany’s Great Coalition broke up when SPD quit over raising employees' NI contributions at time when wages falling due to Great Depression.This led to a general

Chiara Russo Krauss 🇪🇺🇮🇹

russokrauss

The discussion about the difference between deaths “because of” coronavirus and “with coronavirus” is a good case study of Max Weber concept of “adequate causation”, “objective possibility”, and “causal imputation”.

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Significant paper on the cost of misinformation. Basically, one standard deviation more viewership of Sean Hannity (denied seriousness of COVID) versus Tucker Carlson (took the pandemic seriously) is associated with

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Tweetorial on Cause & Effect in Evidence Based MedicineAlternatively: why we need to know the natural history of diseaseCausal reasoning is a core part of the practice of medicine,

Adele Hite

ahhite

The Surgeon General's Report on Smoking - which dramatically changed the smoking habits of Americans - would not have happened without epidemiology. Biochemistry is very important. But ... 1/nhttps://twitter.com/raphaels7/status/1263471

Jezreel Faith

jezromulo

Nung nagka-COVID si Juan, pinagdala siya ng adobong manok ng nanay niya habang nasa ospital.After 3 weeks gumaling na siya. Effective against COVID ang adobo.—Tama ba to? Hindi. Kasi in

Umar

umaraqti

Hoodbhoy is beating his old drum - first went on a major agenda driven rant against the religious teachers while using Xenophobic undertones.Second, what in god’s name is “secular” subjects?Secularism

Bryony Byrne

bbyrnehis

Been going over this problem for a few days now, whilst struggling over my 1c but:What actually makes good explanation/ analysis in a significance enquiry? 2.Through a lot of @jcarrollhistory