#statistics · Louche Cannon

The Demise of the Flynn Effect - Cremieux Recueil

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:43:03 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-demise-of-the-flynn-effect

The Scale of Life

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:36:37 +0200

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Spurious Correlations

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:15:34 +0200

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Everything Is Correlated · Gwern.net

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:55:50 +0200

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Reservoir Sampling

Fri, 09 May 2025 07:53:18 +0200

Bookmarked https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/

How Should We Critique Research?

Wed, 22 May 2024 18:15:36 +0200

Bookmarked https://gwern.net/research-criticism

what makes a criticism important is how much it could change a result if corrected and how much that would then change our decisions or actions: to what extent it is a “difference which makes a difference”.

The Natural Selection of Bad Vibes (Part 1)

Sun, 19 May 2024 07:57:41 +0200

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The Flaw of Averages - The Causal Blog

Wed, 15 May 2024 18:49:00 +0200

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Is the reproducibility crisis reproducible? - by Ben Recht

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:26:59 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.argmin.net/p/is-the-reproducibility-crisis-reproducible

Did hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) really kill 17,000 COVID-19 patients? - RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:54:47 +0200

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What really has a 1 in a million chance?

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:19:56 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/million.html

Data scientists need to learn about significant digits – Daniel Lemire's blog

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:17:05 +0200

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Math for journalists / Naël Shiab | Observable

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:33:08 +0200

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Monty Hall explained

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:12:42 +0200

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Co-occurrence matrix & plot in Python | Kaggle

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:20:41 +0200

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Tutorial 5: Co-occurrence analysis

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:11:36 +0200

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research!rsc: The Magic of Sampling, and its Limitations

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 23:36:20 +0200

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What’s an acceptable number of failures? – Terence Eden’s Blog

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:49:55 +0200

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Brilliant Jerks, Crazy Hotties, and Other Artifacts of Range Restriction | by Byrne Hobart | Towards Data Science

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:58:26 +0200

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Using Range Restriction
One happy result of this is that it gives you a better way to handle imposter syndrome. Probably, whatever you’re good at is less visible to you than what you’re bad at. “Everyone is smarter than me!” you think, at the company where everybody is blown away by your work ethic. “Everyone here has better time-management skills than I do,” says the smartest person at the company. “Everyone works harder than me and is vastly smarter, too,” says the most socially adept person at the office.

Bayes Theorem for lawyers - Part 1 - by Adam King

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:32:17 +0200

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