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, October 11, 2023

"Now the language of this 15-minute conspiracy theory has made its way to some of the highest levels of the British government."

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Another dot for you to connect in the feral disinformation thread . If you are following the housing debate, this NPR segment on 15 minute...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Feral disinformation and "flying syringes"*

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Continuing with the week's theme ... Hailey Branson-Potts and Jessica Garrison writing for the LA Times : As soon as Jon Knight applied ...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Almost no one in the mainstream press has come to terms with what it means to have one of our two main political parties based on feral disinformation.

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Just to get this out of the way, there are certainly false beliefs that are common among democrats/progressives/ liberals. The far left is a...
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Friday, October 6, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- Dems in Disarray

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Kevin McCarthy’s ouster has Democrats scrambling. — New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 3, 2023 Whether it’s the Squad occasi...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Twelve years ago at the blog -- Even East Coast journalists are starting to catch on to Weigel and over-the-air television

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Svengoolie has broken through from cult figure to mainstream appeal with write-ups in places like the WSJ and a full issue team-up with the ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Housing in Canada: why Mark is clever

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This is Joseph. So we all know that housing in Canada is berserk. Vancouver is less affordable than any city in the United States  and Toron...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Five years ago at the blog -- When you're always a skeptic. there's always a risk that something you mock will live up to the hype. (Hasn't happen to us personally, but you hear about cases.)

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This isn't to say that every business or innovation we've criticized have crashed and burned. Netflix is nowhere near the profitabil...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Every day the New York Times' editors check out the latest from NYT Pitchbot and say "hold my beer."

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 There is possibly no writer who is more representative of the NYT than Frank Bruni , and I don't mean that in a good way. There are oth...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- as always, Dems in disarray

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All you need to know about the GOP primary in just twenty seconds. You don't need to see any other clips or read any analyses. Just watc...
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