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If the confidence interval width is 2 * 14.0%, how are you detecting a statistically significant difference between 58% and 50%? The 95% CIs on both timeseries pretty much always c…

The process where resources accrue to those with more resources is called the Matthew Effect. It explains, amongst other things, why the degree distribution of social networks foll…

> Examples include converting boxplots into violins or vice versa, turning a line plot into a heatmap, plotting a density estimate instead of a histogram, performing a computation …

This specific analysis isn’t p-hacking because although they conduct multiple tests, they report all of them rather than just the statistically significant ones. They should howeve…

> Thread is called “fils” in French, meaning “son”, considering channels are parents of threads in a sense. Could be, but “fil” also literally means “thread” in the sewing sense.

You need assumptions exactly for the things which cannot be tested against reality. Otherwise why assume rather than measure?

all of > designed a dozen sites I never published > I was never on time > I couldn't get up for class on time And depending on why > don't drive > I feel like an alien, and most ev…

Can buy-and-hold investors use margin?

This study can't see past its own midwit view that there is an objective “detailed, literal” reading that necessarily produces the same interpretation of the text that the authors …

I think this (jokingly) assumes that PhDs become academics, which is not always true. Also, PhDs are generally free and if you leave early you get a Master's anyway. Terminal Maste…

Let's say that The Rebel Times has a headline "Member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission boarded and arrested without cause" while the Empire Daily reports that "Leia O…

> I have no doubt the same difficulties would apply to - say - planting and harvesting crops on a schedule Not necessarily. Before the Industrial Revolution artisans were paid by t…

In case anyone else is a fan of these unsual old displays, you might enjoy Posy's passionate videos which are a unique combination of curiosity, macro/slowmo shots and humor. Espec…

Also as of more recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Sheinbaum

Here you go: https://www.protection-civile.ch/documents/telechargement/ar...

I think this is too strong. If art has no inherent meaning, you can't say that it's not making a political statement, only that whether it's making a political statment or not is u…

Too easy: Van Gogh painted it in an asylum (social safety net) run by Franciscans (repeal of anti-Church laws during the Third Republic) because he had self-admitted after cutting …

> the US educational system is generally so poor that it's not generating enough people with the necessary technical capabilities to meet employer demand The US educational system …

"in the grim dark future there is only war"

Unalienable IDs might be the default of small-scale face-to-face societies, but not ones which operate at scale. Not even "Bob" can serve as a fixed identifier without intentional …

> The underscore _ can be used as a throwaway variable to discard unwanted values: So can any other variable, using underscore is just a convention to make it obvious that you're n…

It looks from Figure 3 that they fit a sinusoidal curve to the data, and then fit an exponential to the residuals of *that* fit. That exponential shows a sharp increase from hour -…

> In August 2022, I started 17aE2, non feminizing estradiol (Rx), based upon male longevity evidence. My dosing protocol is 4mg wk, transdermal. Since we started, there’s been no c…

It doesn't count `failure` — just the number of rows. But neither does the pandas version: `pd_df.groupby(['date'])['failure'].count()` and `pd_df.groupby(['date']).count()` are th…

The ergonomics of grouping and aggregation in R are really much better because libraries can make of its non-standard evaluation[^0] (which in other cases also makes the language a…