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.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

We re-invent the train

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This is Joseph. I was reading eschaton who posted this tweet : Ok, this is pretty bad. Eschaton went down the European pathway (better mixe...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Matt Levine on the culture of lawyers

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 As we've said before, anyone with even a passing interest in business should sign up for Levine's email newsletter. Among his othe...
Friday, October 7, 2022

In 1962, having "Jet" in a name still felt futuristic

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Andrew Gelman recently did a post on Saturday Morning cartoons of yesteryear, so you know there had to be something that would set off my i...
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Thursday, October 6, 2022

Twelve years ago at the blog: back when jetpacks were just around the corner

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Monday, October 4, 2010 The cusp of coolness One of the most popular genres of science writing since at lea...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Thursday Tweets -- a day early in case something happens to Twitter

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By Jaimie Ding @j_dingdingding Everything we don’t know about Elon Musk’s latest about-face on Twitter https://t.co/SPGnkz7iy9 — Russ Mitc...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

More musings on higher ground

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From last week's hurricane post . A common, perhaps even the standard framing of rising sea levels is that it's a existential threa...
Monday, October 3, 2022

It's been a while since we made fun of homeopaths

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From That Mitchell and Webb Look :
Friday, September 30, 2022

What happens when the government believes its own propaganda?

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This is Joseph. Tax cuts cause dynamic growth is a common talking point that fails most of the tests of being a clear and universal principl...
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

High ground and the lack thereof

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Another thread we've been hammering for a awhile.  A common, perhaps even the standard framing of rising sea levels is that it's a e...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Academic hiring

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This is Joseph. Just the public part of this Substack post by Ilya Shapiro is amazing. Like how disconnected do you need to be from academic...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Tuesday Tweets -- Headless Horses and other Absurdities

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This is Twitter at its best. Smart people having interesting converstions. On the other hand, a DL model is excellent at reproducing local...
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Monday, September 26, 2022

Trickling down?

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This is Joseph. There is a idea in economics that giving money to the wealthy will result in faster rates of economic growth than giving mon...
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Friday, September 23, 2022

If you need another Columbo fix...

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...or just need to get away from the news for an hour and a half this weekend, here's is one of the rare cases where YouTube's algor...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Five years ago at the blog -- No special relevance here. I just like talking about this stuff.

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Friday, September 29, 2017 Thoughts o...
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