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Neuropsychology PhD
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MĂNSTER WIRD VON EINEM RIESIGEN AXOLOTL ANGEGRIFFEN đ±
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The comments and quotes seem to blame either the fall of the Soviet Union or the declining popularity of cocaine
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bsky.app/profile/jens...
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It has been 24 years, 5 months, and 5 days since 2000.
It will be 24 years, 6 months, and 26 days until 2050.
We have a little more time still. We can panic in July.
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Evidently the fall of the soviet union had further reaching cultural impact than we thought.
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I guess it never made the top spot in this particular charting system, but I canât verify right now
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I probably shouldnât have started to plug my stuff right when the MUSK-TRUMP MELTDOWN OF 2025 is beginning
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That one only reached no. 30 on the chart that they pulled these data from, so it wouldnât be included here
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Hereâs a link if youâre interested: www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/jens-fo...
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I deal with things like that in last yearâs book âFakten sind auch nur Meinungenâ (âFacts are also just Opinionsâ). Itâs out everywhere, including as an audiobook, but unfortunately only in German so far.
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This is something that people outside of science often donât expect â they know math to be objective, without a need for justifications. Taylorâs song is either 10 minutes long or it isnât. But thatâs not how it works in statistics. 8/9
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The best strategy depends on what youâre actually trying to do. So does the best cut-off value that youâd use to define something as an outlier.
Whatever strategy you use, you need to justify it in the Methods section of your paper.
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It might seem strange or even unscientific to just change values that you donât like to something else. But thereâs only bad options here. Dropping them is just as unscientific. And keeping them in skews and weakens a trend that is clearly there. So what should you do?
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(Yeah yeah I know itâs more complicated than that but I donât feel like explaining confidence intervals right now. What I explain here is a close approximation).
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In simple terms, you just change the values to the next highest. So you just pretend like âAmerican Pieâ and âAll Too Wellâ are about 7 minutes long, because âHey Judeâ (the next longest one), is about 7 minutes long. 4/9
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So it makes sense not to include them and theyâve been dropped out, which in statistics is called âtrimmingâ. You act as if those two years hadnât happened.
But what if you canât afford to drop entries for some reason? Another strategy to deal with this is called Winsorizing:
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The two songs are way longer than any of the others, at 8 1/2 and 10 minutes duration. Including them would have meant stretching the chart which would have made the curve seem flatter.
Plus, it would have *actually* flattened the curve because the songs happen to be at the extreme ends.
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âUm, have you ever considered that you could just go through the effort of keeping yourself safe from me being constantly annoying?â
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Thatâs not what the movie does, though. It mocks ignorance, to be sure, but it postulates that the reason for widespread ignorance is a higher procreation rate among the lower classes. It also postulates this trend to be inevitable, which implies eugenics to be the only remedy.
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Haaahaha đ€Łđ€Ł
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Itâs basically the other way around for me: Iâm terrible at finding my way around (you have now idea *how* terrible) and all of a sudden with GPS I have been turned into a Normal who arrives at the same time as everyone else
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#lolsob
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IDK IDK I have nothing on repeat right now if that helps. Been listening to some Metallica recently which is good because itâs not embarrassing to admit
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Thank you! The event was basically walking distance from home, so it shouldnât be an issue đ
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Whatâs going on in my head rn
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I believe Iâm on the right bus
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Tipsy and on my way home AMA
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Operation Spider's Web in particular was beautiful to behold. What an achievement
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I have the urge to buy each of those protestors a hot beverage of their choice
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They took the license plates off the van. They know they are doing something wrong. I hope there are consequences.
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I wanted to use mostly songs/versions that you likely haven't heard yet. And I wanted them all to have some character. It's 90 minutes, like the old mix tapes used to be. Enjoy!