West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

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Monday, May 23, 2016

Where were we? Oh, yeah, the Hyperloop

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Before we get further into the story, there is an important aspect that has bizarrely gone unmentioned in most of the coverage of this . ...

Friday, May 20, 2016

I'm going to see how far I can go into this thread without using either the expressions "train wreck" or "perfect storm."

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The hyperloop seems almost designed to prey upon the press's weakness when it comes to engineering and technology. It's a story tha...

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Friday, May 13, 2016

One of these I'm actually going to write that ddulite mega-thread...

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And when I do, I'm definitely going to use extensive quotes from this beautifully brutal piece by Evgeny Morozov. What the Khannas’ p...

Friday, June 6, 2014

The near miss effect -- what compulsive gamblers and tech reporters have in common

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A few days ago I posted a bit of a rant about how excited tech reporters got over a Google press release about the company's driverless...

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Adam Frank is better at science than business

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This is Falcon 7, not Falcon 9 Astrophysicist Adam Frank is what you might call a fan of SpaceX: So what's the big deal? Wel...

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