#Estimates

TheFreePhenotype

DialecticalA

Garbage in, garbage out. Recently, a psych sci paper was retracted after reassessing the data it was based on. This data, the national IQ data derived from Lynn and Vanhanen,

Stuart

astronomyblog

OK, I think I've now correctly added Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland to the Local Authority hex map for #covidー19uk https://odileeds.github.io/covid-19/LocalAuthorities/?hextype=COVID-19-percapita Note that Wales/Scotland report numbers by

Kert Viele

KertViele

(1/n) Saw this letter in @NEJM…also covered by journalists. Concurrent vs non-concurrent controls is a complex issue in platform trials. This is a tweetorial on these issues, and a comment

Trey the Explainer

Trey_Explainer

Making some graphics for a future video. America before contact was really fascinating. A lot was going on here long before Europeans showed up. During some periods of history, North

Renée Stephen

ReneeStephen

I have Opinions about the #discoverbc website mess. As someone who did site performanc testing for, like, the Olympics that one time, the most difficult problem isn't technical, it's psychological:

Evan Soltas

esoltas

New paper from me, on NYC's 421-a tax exemption:1) How costly is inclusionary housing?2) What factors explain the apparent per-unit cost premium over LIHTC / Section 8?3) Do longer-run benefits

Michael Kofman

KofmanMichael

Thoughts on Russian losses. A thorny subject I've stayed away from because its difficult to tackle and the information gaps are vast. Numbers get thrown about with broad ranges, and

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

So, this new paper in Nature has a rather misleading statement in the abstract. It says ecosystem restoration could "sequester 299 gigatonnes of CO2—30% of the total CO2 increase in

Dan Rejto

danrejto

Cultured meat (aka lab-grown, cell-based, or cultivated meat) could have an unintended effect: increased GHG emissions. THREAD 1/https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food/cultivated-meat First, cultured meat isn't commercially available yet. It is

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

POLL: If government openly talked about the real number of #Covid19 infected people (millions), instead of only talking about the "confirmed cases" (tens of thousands)...What effect would that have

Ben Shapiro

benshapiro

If Cuomo's preliminary antibody estimates for NYC are correct, actual infection fatality rate in the city is 0.8 percent. Good news: that's far lower than the WHO 3-4 percent estimate.

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

Let's review: 1/ We have very little idea what positive tests mean (we're over 300,000, but they rise more or less linearly with the number we conduct - does that

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

NEW: Today's update of the @FinancialTimes UK death model suggests that by 22 April there have been roughly43,100 excess deaths linked to coronavirus.The 2,000 increase from Tuesday reflects:a) 759 hospital

Steve Brown

stevebrown2856

(1/13) The curious case of COVID-19 trends in London vs the rest of England, and the case for resistance in the population: A thread. The graph below shows the trend

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

POLL: How many people are #COVID19 infected in the today?This is the most important number in the crisis.It drives:- Intensive care load (1-4 weeks)- Death toll (1-5 weeks)- Fatality

Avital O'Glasser, MD FACP FHM

aoglasser

1/ it’s been five days since I last posted an updated review of Oregon-specific #COVID19 data. There have been some big announcements in the interval about how Oregon continues to