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, June 8, 2022

California has a serious shortage of housing but apparently it's nothing like the New York Times shortage of straw men

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 Joseph may just be trolling me here : The recent New York Times article on the twilight of the NIMBY was interesting just for the low l...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

NIMBY and California

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This is Joseph. The recent New York Times article on the twilight of the NIMBY was interesting just for the low level of actual good ideas...
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Monday, June 6, 2022

Despite what Delaney says, age is not a significant factor in predicting cardiovascular disease and cancer.* [Blogger took this down for some reason, so we're putting it back up]

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*Among undergrad college students [Following up on Joseph's post ] I'm know this sounds like a joke but it's really not. It'...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Why do people make such a big deal over fake engineers when the real thing is so cool?

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Bob Sorokanich of Jalopnik  introduces is to the very cool body of work of Jam Handy How does a car’s differential work? You probably have a...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

The Realization

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Great  @TheAutonocast  episode. @TaylorOgan  on Elon Musk: "Everything that he tries to dive into, if you know anything about that subj...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Repost: This five-year old sketch holds up really well

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 Better, sadly, than the company that made it. R.I.P CollegeHumor Friday, April 7, 2017 We haven't talked about the content bubble for a...

Repost: Netflix Revisionism Warning

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 And it is already getting ugly out there. The very same journalists and industry observers who missed every major development in the stream...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Tuesday Tweets -- catching up with web3

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I genuinely feel embarrassed for how much time I spend harping on this issue and then I remember “Oh yeah, greatest fraud in history happeni...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

Memorial Day Repost

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  There is, of course, no such thing as  the  military perspective -- no single person can speak for all the men and women who have served i...
Friday, May 27, 2022

To understand why Elon Musk is having such a bad month, you have to understand the role of FSD

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In 2017 , we talked about how Elon Musk's wholly undeserved reputation as a brilliant inventor and engineer was essential to his success...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Will they get Bill Cosby to do the ads?

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From Bloomberg: A proposal by the founder of the troubled Terra ecosystem to salvage the project was approved, averting a total collapse of ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

We need to start with imaginary flying exoskeletons

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Elon Musk has become a genuinely important topic of conversation with implications for business, media, politics and technology. In order to...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

What if the standard narrative about evangelicals and the GOP gets things backwards? [Late night phone dictation -- beware bad voice recognition]

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Or at least, what if the causal arrow points both ways? Could evangelicals becoming more conservative/Republican have, in part, caused them ...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Our view of Musk five years ago -- pretty comfortable with how this one aged

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This was very much the minority opinion back then. Now? Not so much.  Tuesday, July 25, 2017 A few points to keep in mind when reading any u...

Ten years ago at the blog -- our first Musk post

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Lot of Elon blogging coming up, which makes this an aptly timed repost.  Frank's essay has not aged well. Despite Musk's increasingl...
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