#Metric

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

The fatality rate that @fayedsouza refers to is the "case fatality rate" (CFR). Let's remember that it tells us almost nothing about the true "infection fatality rate" (IFR) in India

Michael Mulvihill

mulvihill79

A few closing thoughts on the 116th World Series.To me the key metrics in looking at the World Series are always volume of games and how the Series rates relative

Stephen C. Dorner, MD, MPH, MSc

StephenDorner

A Wednesday tweetorial about everyone’s favorite lab: Lactate. So nice, you checked it twice. A #Medtwitter Thread for #EMDocs and everyone else alike. Several years ago, CMS enacted a quality

Edson

EdsonCGuido

Let's talk about testing.3 million in total were conducted in the Philippines since the pandemic began. But is that enough?A thread. From around 13k per day in June, testing doubled

♡★BEX★♡

bexscarecrow

let’s gooooooo snakenationhttps://twitter.com/hslotgold/status/1305698394065842179 errrrrrrrrrr i’m now realising this is very tailored to american education. we learn metric measurements in school so i have no fucking cluehttps://twitt

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

So while individual Labour policies poll well - such as renationalising the railways, putting workers on company boards, introducing a wealth tax - they do much less well when sold

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

“Stay at home” getting a lot of attention but it’s the abandonment of “Protect the NHS” which is perhaps most significant. Doctors had been getting concerned about it. Excess deaths

Talia Ringer

TaliaRinger

It still confuses me that in spaces in which humans can often generalize from just 2 or 3 examples, it's considered successful when a software system does so from millions

GuruAnaerobic

GuruAnaerobic

THE WEIGHTED EFFECT OF PREDISPOSITIONS.What is going to kill you? Focus on that.In life outcomes, predispositions (can) have a disproportionate effect - a flare for art, extreme strength, aggression, a

Reuben Rodriguez

ReubenR80027912

Taking a break from COVID content (I've lost my ability to be rational) for a thread on something we can all agree on:FL is an absolutely bonkers state and its

Up-and-to-the-Right Capital Management

AdamB1438

Interesting problem to think through:Bankrupt shale companies will emerge from 2020 far less leveraged, butSolvent shale companies will emerge from 2020 MUCH more highly leveraged.Discuss. Thinking through $CLR for example.

Dr. Noelle, mathemagician

blkmathmagic

We had one of my favorite WHAT IS HAPPENING moments in topology today: open balls are not necessarily round and it depends on the metric. They often aren't ball-shaped. Yes,

Drew O.

DFBeanCounter

Clyde Edwards-Helaire has been the most difficult player for me to rank in fantasy football this season. Let's take a look at him throw the lens of the #bulletproofprospect process

Amanda 💙 WENEE/MBB/BLUENESS 💙

AussieWonbebe

Ok so bc I'm sick of seeing this shit let's talk about the members projects. Ppl are being passive aggressive snarks at the moment saying Joo is overlooked and unappreciated.

Alexander Bloom

AlexBloomEdu

Okay, since I’ve literally written the book on this, I’ll bite. The authors’ argument is principally that more information about pricing and aid would help students avoid the nefarious scheming

mogwai.

TheVunderkind

People unwittingly optimize for the easiest-to-achieve metric when they aren't being rigorous.The abundance of "funny" accounts is not an accident. We need to stop acting like making people laugh is