#Probability

my no.1 pet peeve are those fans that defend their artists and won't resort to educating them whenever they make a mistake or become ignorant. like y'all don't have rights
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Who caused Hard Brexit? Some thoughts from the perspective of a social scientist. In the last few days we have seen an interminable debate on whether Remainers, Soft Brexiters, or
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Schools and personally-acceptable risk (THREAD)This thread is an attempt to address questions certain UK parents and school staff have raised to me.I’m not an epidemiologist, but as a mathematician I’m
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In #UPSC 2018, Muslims scored 13 marks LOWER than non-Muslims on average in written exams BUT scored 12 marks HIGHER in interview!!! This interview difference used to be 5-8 marks
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Cognitive Bias In Business3 Lessons In 3 Tweets[ THREAD ] Let's go 1: Survivorship Bias “Roger Federer eats five egg yolks and does alternate nostril breathing every morning.” We
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Just to be clear, this is a completely made-up claim. I never threatened Katelyn Burns with legal action, and I never threatened http://Rewire.News  with legal action. It is a lie.
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I believe we should take a more cautious and safe approach to re-opening than what was outlined today. My concerns are with the size, scope and speed of what is
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1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, I'll walk you through tail risks and their dangers. 2/Imagine that you've just started an insurance company -- XYZ Corp.XYZ is based in
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What are the consequences for sex ratio theory if human sex ratio is not heritable? This is the subject of a recent exchange in @RSocPublishing #ProcB that started with this
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Why interest rates getting to 5-6% in the coming years is a low probability event:1/we've never had a demographic this big live for so longboomers didn't have this when they
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kim jisoo's quotes a thread; you own your life, don't be swayed by other things and lose important things, focus on yourself reading under a tree is peaceful, but imagine
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seeing a bunch of people “normalize” mental health or whatnot and while i suppose it’s all to the good i want to tell em and every1 like: it’s not just
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I also ran an analysis of the claim that Hindus benefit by reservations and Muslims do not. What was interesting is that 19 out of 28 Muslims selected this year
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I failed 8+ interviews. This is what I did⇓ 99% of the time, we already know the outcome of the interview ⇓{ 2 / 7 } The biggest reason for
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Small thread - This may be very unpopular- I’m not trying to cause argument here. Just my view. That’s all. Is FPL skills based or luck based (some chat on
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Let me try to explain a point which I think isn't widely known: in computing attack rates, the distribution of infectious contacts a person MAKES is less important than the
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