#Numbers

Simon Frankel Pratt

Simon_the_Pratt

SO qualitative vs quantitative rant.These are overlapping, indistinct, and disanalogous categories! ALL EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IS QUALITATIVE! ALL EMPIRICAL DATA ARE QUALITATIVE! Even if we use stats, we are still representing/analysing

Cagla Demirduzen

kilic_cagla

Political Scientists began to develop tests to identify election fraud which is based on Benford’s Law (human attempts to manipulate results leave traces behind). Benford’s law “describes a pattern for

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

In our epidemiology course for journalists, I used this as example of selection bias & uncritical journalistic reporting.Here are a few headlines in Indian media screaming that 15% of Indians

Derek Rae

RaeComm

Thread. 1/ This @Sportschau piece lays out how UEFA are thinking about Euros next year. March 5th decision day. 4 different scenarios in each of 12 cities, from optimistic full

Aaron 🇭🇰

tripperhead

Secretary for Food and Health, Professor Sophia Chan: Recently see a increase in local cases. Today, we will announce that there will be 26 new cases today, including 21 local

Anthony Simon

MagaKarma1

1) @realDonaldTrump here is my gift to youThis is not an opinion. Its based on election resultsFlorida is the state that describes the nations preference. Because it is in Florida

Rodney Campbell

rodneytwit

Nuff ah unoo cyaa talk to me bout Covid cases and spread...WE...notice it? WE jumped up demanding every Jamaican be allowed in early and made war...WE demanded flights be made

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

rasmus_kleis

Platforms by # of users / papers in #ICA20 program that mentioned themTwitter 330m / 51Facebook 2.6b / 41Google 2+b 5 / YouTube 2b 28WhatsApp 2b / 4Wechat 1.2b /

Mark Copelovitch

mcopelov

This chart would be helpful if it provided the reader with any basis for ascertaining whether these LARGE NOMINAL NUMBERS are related to the scale of the problems at hand.

David Andersen

dave_andersen

Allegheny county + PA hospitalization thread: Today's case numbers are out and high: +1166 county, +11972 state. Given how noisy it is, it's helpful to average it out a bit.

JPR007

jpr007

LEGACY AUTOMAKERS - 2020 NOVEMBER YTDAs we approach the close of the year, how do the legacy automakers see themselves in 2020 ?Total global industry volume is down -16% so

Nader Issa

NaderDIssa

One more thing coming today: Janice Jackson said last week's in-person student attendance will be released this afternoon.We say this every time, but it's still remarkable that with something as

Andrew Bostom, MD, MS

andrewbostom

1/On the 70th anniversary of Orwell’s death, 1/21/1950, worth noting that a year before he passed, Orwell gave the British govt a list of people he thought were Stalinist “crypto-communists,

George Yarrow

george_yarrow

1/5 The media & profs are now on to the 'feast before fast' (inter-temporal demand shifting) effect that I've talked about previously. That it doesn't seem to have been anticipated

Professor Philip Nolan

President_MU

We have made extraordinary progress over the month of January, but let’s #holdfirm. We still have weeks to go to suppress the virus and get the level of infection and

Branko Marcetic

BMarchetich

Pressuring lawmakers, even the good ones, is vital, but all the yelling and name-calling isn't going to change the fact that the Squad is, at most, only 8 people in

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