#Variation

Betsy Wolf

betsyjwolf

It’s that time of year! Time to brine the turkey and review to what extent DC schools are rated based on the demographics of students they serve. Here we go!

Ron Noble

RonNoble7

1. A thread on the relationship between race and genetics. Is race a reliable proxy for genetic diversity? Do racial, ethnic, and/or population groups correspond to identifiable genetic clusters? What

Jon Coles

JonColes01

1. Several people have asked me to explain why a statistical model alone won’t give very accurate pupil-level grades. The short answer is uncertainty. This is the longer answer… 2.

Emiel van Miltenburg

evanmiltenburg

Some notes regarding inter-annotator agreement in NLG:Krippendorff (2004; https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1250&context=asc_papers) compares different measures for inter-annotator agreement and shows (following earlier lit

joanna schroeder

iproposethis

Hey white parents, The "slave auction" happened on TikTok between white kids like yours and like mine. Not Nazi kids. American white kids. Sit down with your kids and explain

Haris Gazdar

HarisGazdar

How SMART are we? With all this talk of smart versus dumb lockdowns here is a sobering thought. What we know about the spread of the disease is from tests

David M Burke

dmburkeauthor

COVID-19 combined with 5G may be a death sentence!COVID-19 deaths 700% higher in 5G areas (>50 per million); it’s only 7/million in areas w/o 5G. And, 5G is still not

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I totally love the GnomAD papers here, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2308-7 but I want to get ahead of the almost inevitable quoting /showing of Figure1 as "showing there is genetic support for ethnic

👻BOO👻der

TheChowderhead

Let's talk about one of the most important concepts in comedy, Punching Up.Punching Up is the idea that possibly bad taste jokes land best when they come from someone vulnerable

Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM

SuneAuken

#WritingStudies is a an interesting topic (is it not @Katja_Thieme?), so here's a fun personal observation about writing. I have been going with my daily reminders for more than a

local cryptid

fejusviesos

thread for different variation Animal Crossing: New Horizons items and trading them!! https://animalcrossingworld.com/guides/new-horizons/nook-miles-outdoor-furniture-rewards-every-item-color-variant/ this is a site where you can see which different

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

Y’all the electoral system is not the extent of our power. Our labor is actually our greatest point of leverage if folks would be willing to work together in solidarity

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism. Traditional urbanism has short blocks. No building

tjan ⛩

candrapada

"wow so cool, the cutting mat is self-healing... unlike me..."-overheard at dept of architecture "I got an OK at drawing but I'm not OK."-also overheard "for me 10k is already

AngeloFF

angelo_fantasy

'Why Justin Jefferson?'During the 2020 NFL Combine Jefferson also turned some heads with surprising athletic measurables, but still some believe Jefferson is not a multi-dimensional player in terms of position versatility. There

Jonathon Owen

ArrantPedantry

I had to do an assignment on English hypocoristics (that is, nicknames) in my grad-level phonology class, and it was really fascinating.https://twitter.com/CWWilkie/status/1313897026329939968 The most common way to make a short