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Comment #46176281
If true, that means the groups are different in many other aspects other than the vaccine. The study does not control for the differences. No causality can be inferred.
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Comment #46173310
So what you're saying is that they are comparing two distinct self-selected populations that differ in many other aspects than just taking the vaccine. Why would you ascribe any di…
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Comment #46173223
You're basically saying that the study compares two distinct populations that differ in many other aspects rather than just by vaccine. Why then do you ascribe the difference in mo…
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Comment #46078048
In your flying car, no less.
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Comment #46052512
I was working in customer support for one of the first ISPs in my country when the switch from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 happened. Windows 95 was a massive jump in usability. Regul…
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Comment #46046403
Nothing in the study actually supports the claim in the headline and much of the text, though.
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Comment #46015901
I too always claim my position is the null argument.
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Comment #45851106
The statistical argument is basically: Multiplying a number beyond our comprehension by an unknown probability >= 2 Right?
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Comment #45836579
How exactly extraterretial life is a statistical fact?
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Comment #45754321
There's a video review on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so
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Comment #45754305
The more modern approach is fake it until a liquidity event.
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Comment #45672866
> motivated by Netanyahu's almost certain knowledge that he'll go to prison if and when he loses his grip on the reins. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is determined by trial in an…
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Comment #45621810
Any day now.
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Comment #44458946
But they haven't checked his employment eligibility or he wouldn't have started his first week.
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Comment #44360291
This is simply not the case. Edited: removed some inflammatory language I shouldn't have used.
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Comment #44355017
Why investigate if we can simply assume the accused is guilty.
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Comment #44349439
> Case 3 - seemingly similar to Case 2, a large news website offered to portray Bibi in a better light if he would push through regulatory changes as Minisiter of Communications. F…
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Comment #44348992
>There are multiple charges of corruption against him, which he is probably guilty of. For anyone who is not following the trial, as soon as the prosecution's case-in-chief was ove…
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Comment #43942451
You can build a model, but is there any reason to assume it can predict what you want it to predict?
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Comment #43942242
In the 1970s both my parents were programming computers professionaly. Computing was already a huge industry. Just IBM's revenues were in the multi billion dollar range in the 1970…
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Comment #43940150
Why would a bayesian model be better than, say, astrology in pricing that?