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.

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Ten years ago, the NYT et al. was railing against the unfairness of the SAT and ACT. Now, they're basically saying what we were saying then.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 The SAT probably is unfair to the disadvantaged but not for the reasons you've been ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

I've spent almost a decade pointing out Nate Cohn's statistical and logical errors. It's a nice change of pace to talking about his plain old bad reporting.

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From Monday's NYT : Gerard Willingham, 30, works as a web administrator and lives in Riverdale, Ga. He voted for Mr. Biden in 2020, bu...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Either ineffective or unaltruistic

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I'm not saying that effective altruism is a scam. I believe that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett sincerely want to use their billions to i...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Would manipulating stocks by spreading conspiracy theories about stock manipulation be considered meta-fraud?

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Even by meme stock standards, Trump Media is an insane story. For starters, as James Surowiecki points out "His company has $4 million...
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