#Probability

Mrs. Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) was a women's rights advocate & pioneering scientist. In 2020, @EarthSci_Info + @Roland_Jackson reanalyzed the data from her groundbreaking 1856 study to show you could
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thread on thread on thread, to add this: people sometimes say we shouldn't be so skeptical of policy recommendations based on non-definitive empirical studies, because hey, we have to do
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There are a huge number of resurrections mentioned in the New Testament: just in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, there's the raising of Lazarus, and of the daughter of
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This economic depression we are experiencing is probably the most important kwa the youth of our country. It is time to start building businesses of the future. THREAD on what
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0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th
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I've realised that some highly educated people find formulae like this difficult to understand. Yet at the same stage we studied that level in math, we were also studying "water
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1/ A computer virus with unknown origin has started infecting computers around the world, and spreading itself from computer to computer. 2/ This particular computer virus has the ability to
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It's election forecast time! But can we take @FiveThirtyEight or @Economist forecasts at face value? What are forecasters' goals & incentives, especially post 2016 disillusionment? Excited to share a new
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This is an excellent thread. It would probably help to add some information on how letters are sorted and how mail actually reduces voter fraud and has been used to
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~~==●Exposing Haruto●==~~÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷A thread÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ Lately one of the final line up YG Treasure Box, Haruto Watanabe is gaining a lot of attention from Knetz and Jnetz.Here's why:1. One of the reason
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1) Last night CoinGecko listed yTrump.yTrump = tokenized YES shares from Augur’s market on whether Trump will win the 2020 election.Augur TVL has nearly doubled in the past 24 hours
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Thread- Excited to publish this latest collaboration between @amnesty and @elementai - Using artificial intelligence to scale up human rights research: a case study on Darfur w/ @alkalait and @BuffyPrice
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1/NI wrote a memo on the econ PhD application process based on my experience last year. I think prospective applicants - especially those outside of top schools - will find
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If you're interested in whether this Russian hacking stuff has any weight to it, I suggest you go and read the report yourself. From my perspective and the research I've
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Ok, so what's wrong with the confidence intervals in this preprint? Well they publish a confidence interval on the specificity of the test that runs between 98.3% and 99.9%, but
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I was hesitant to bring attention to this but I suspect it will be picked up soon. I am concerned that a recently posted preprint will cause another panic about
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