binneyz.bsky.social
Sports injury epidemiologist, esp. NFL; Assistant Professor of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Oxford College of Emory; long-suffering Dolphins fan, but I repeat myself
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If you need a college degree to do your job they already dislike you. If you need a GRADUATE degree? Brother they are trying to eliminate every single one of those jobs they can to force you to raise kids, work in the farms, or the factories.
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I think it is part of a broader push to annihilate white collar jobs in "smart" sectors. For lack of a better term, to punish the professional managerial class that has swing wildly towards Dems and whom the right-wing thinks of as elites.
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I would guess yes but mostly unintentionally. This is why distinguishing these two types of questions (and pure description) is the first day of my statistical critical thinking course and we hit it literally (really, literally) every subsequent day, as well. They're so sick of it by the end.
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If he gets frustrated enough with Israel to do something completely unprecedented like hold them to account for literally anything...sorry, sorry, I know better.
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I'm kidding, of course. He's not a moron. He just thinks you are.
And he was prideful enough to think he could extract a man's word that would stop that man from conducting the crusade he dedicated his whole life to.
It's tragic, and we all have to pay the price.
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By George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum
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ICE sure seems to be happy to piss off a whole lot of Marines lately. Let's see how that works out for them.
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What I'm saying I guess is can we know from the outside?
Depending on how you value winning a title and what you think Hali's WPA and what you think his risk of further injury is you could reach any answer using a perfectly deliberative process.
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To answer this you must answer, at minimum, with no error:
-Perspective (is this value for Hali or Pacers)?
-Value of NBA championship
-Marginal win probability added by Hali tonight
-Negative value to [party] of missing next season
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I was struggling with how to word this, but by "med-adjacent" I was trying to communicate the idea of anyone who put themselves in a position of caring for the health of other people.
I agree with you (mostly) about chiropractors.
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Do you think the bombing and starting a war with Iran was a good or bad idea, Senator? I don't see that anywhere in your statement.
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Ringing Bell. Not a joke.
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My most conservative belief is our society desperately needs more personal responsibility for not being a complete dumbass and serious, severe consequences when you are.
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Ah, I may have misunderstood what you meant by "the person!" But I include the person quoted, Kiley, who was the chiropractor serving as a source of healthcare. If you take on that role, yes, I include you in my group I blame and hate and will never forgive without complete contrition.
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My most conservative belief is our society desperately needs more personal responsibility for not being a complete dumbass and serious, severe consequences when you are.
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I'm sorry, I KNOW it's not helpful but I DO blame the people in this article. Certainly the med-adjacent folks, including the chiropractor who are staring at a PILE of incredibly sick kids and not changing their mind at all. If there's no pile of child corpses big enough you just suck as a person!!!
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@nytimes.com can I have a column please
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And sorry, the men who talk about their feelings openly and paint their nails are not the sex criminals who are just waiting for their chance to get into the ladies' room.
You're thinking of evangelical pastors and GOP state reps.
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There is a very real chance that DHS is doing something as stupid as "total assaults in 2025 have risen from 2 as of February 28 to 10 as of June 20" and framing that as a 500% increase. They won't tell you!
You have to learn how people lie with numbers, accidentally or deliberately.
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This is all assuming DHS isn't just lying.
Even if they are technically quoting some true number, however, there are SO many ways it can be misleading.
People are scared of math, and learning to ask these Qs takes training, but you just have to be a critical thinker. Anyone can learn this stuff!
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RFK prioritizing dismantling the lead poisoning team makes more sense when you remember his uncle John.
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Putting on my history of science degree hat, miasma theory is more or less that farts make you sick