#Statistical

Alan Lagudka 🏳️‍🌈

lagudka

As someone who practises astrology and is also a maths teacher, I would just like to say that when doing statistical research, the probability of a planet being in a

David Corn

DavidCornDC

In its suit trying to throw out the votes of GA, WI, PA & MI, the state of Texas claims the odds of Biden winning those states is "less than

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

OK, since this seems to be the new "squirrel" from the #casedemic crowd, we can check. I mean, obviously people are being discharged, but how many?Times of day when this

Steve Cortes

CortesSteve

The improbability of Biden's outperformance vs. Obama:"In 2020, Biden won Montgomery County [PA] by a whopping 131,000 votes, more than twice the prior Obama margin. Biden’s 2020 total vote in

Steve Cortes

CortesSteve

In PA "the scant 0.03% of rejected ballots represents a refusal rate that is just 1/30th the level of 2016 in Pennsylvania.First-time mail-in voters typically see a rejection rate of

Howard Rundle

HowardRundle4

Can we talk about science? Very generally? I teach a 4th year undergraduate honours seminar in which we discuss this, but recent experience suggests it bears wider treatment. 1. There

Flex Morgan M.D.

sammideedub

The UCP are “threatening” to release physician compensation figures. Well, the AMA has already made public a lot more than that, including figures on average overhead and salaries to staff

vitalik.eth

VitalikButerin

There's a big difference between statistical models and prediction markets this US election; and it's a puzzle why this is happening.Some guesses: 1. Bets on prediction markets correctly incorporate the

Gráinne Hallahan

heymrshallahan

The data is odd isn’t it?As it is, schools CAN see which grades were upgraded, but it doesn’t seem to make sense without the context of the grades which would

Tim Harford

TimHarford

There's not much evidence that Stalin ever said this, but the quote points to an important truth: we are often willing to sling statistics around to win arguments, while having

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

During Timnit's excellent talk (which you can watch below) the question of whether or not the process of statistical inference, and indeed a scientific method, can be objective and I

Krishna Kasaraneni

Dr_Kasaraneni

#GeneralPractice appointments data for October:https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/appointments-in-general-practice/october-20201/5 With fewer GPs and more patients than last year.2/5 And the government had

Event support

Eventsupport3

54,000,000 ish people in England121 deaths linked to C19 y/dayNote attached: 'Deaths of people who have tested positively for COVID-19 could in some cases be due to a DIFFERENT cause'

Lana Wood Johnson

muliebris

I hate this map, do you know why?It makes people feel like their vote doesn't matter compared to these few, and that's not how any of this works.All this map

Statistics Guy 🤓

Stat_O_Guy

Diagnostic Performance of NHS England compared to 2019.The suspension of the health service is most easily observed in these data sets.Since April the amount of tests conducted has fallen by

Nabiha

nabihazaman223

Our group decided to compare the susceptibility of S. marcescens to beta-lactam and aminoglycoside antibiotics. Nosocomial infections can be caused by S. marcescens which is why it is important to

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