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.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Double standards

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This is Joseph.  Some of the recent political stuff has convinced me that there are some odd double standards between the left and the right...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

We can't return to Ithuvania if we never left -- seven years ago at the blog

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Given the news, I've been thinking about this Gary Larson cartoon a fair bit pic.twitter.com/CtynbdkN1c — Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) No...
Monday, May 9, 2022

X -- "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is."

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 From Business Insider : Elon Musk's aspirations for Twitter include a mysterious new product named "X," according to his inve...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Matt Damon's soul didn't come cheap and other Friday miscellanea

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!!!MOOB [Implosion sound effect] From YouTuber and scam expert Coffeezilla. More details here . Also from Coffeezilla. You may hav...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Thursday Thoughts: A tale of two tweets

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This is Joseph. So the leaked Roe versus Wade opinion has elicited a variety of reactions. On one side, we see the group that sees abortion ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Late Night Thoughts on Roe v Wade, Black Swans, Elections, and Uncertainty

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I normally let these things sit for a while and run them past a stat professor or two to check my logic and language, but this is a fast-mov...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Tuesday Tweets -- Web3 edition

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One of the best cryptocurrency quotes, period. “In my life I try to avoid things that are stupid and evil and make me look bad in compariso...
Monday, May 2, 2022

I just checked and we've been making fun of Zucker since 2010.

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Sometimes you come up with an example so good you just have to keep revisiting it. When it comes to executive compensation, that example is ...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Updated: A year ago at the blog we were talking about about the disconnect between Musk pontificators and the reporters on the beat. Let's see how that's going

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As soon as I run a post, perfect examples start showing up. NEW: Why, of all the world’s billionaires, do progressives love to hate Elon ...
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