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English/Irish/EU in Spain. PhD in psychology & self-appointed data police cadet. Interested in the lower tail of many distributions. Not yet disabled. ID confirmation: https://x.com/sTeamTraen/status/1858181372126408774
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Can't get much more English than that. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

This is quite clever. If you want your room to be cleaned, don't take the key outside with you. This presumably saves the hotel on either cleaning or key loss. (This hotel has real metal keys that actually turn locks.)

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

They're closed, so I guess I'm going to have to wait. #BadumTish

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

@almagroschool.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Your occasional reminder that "grit" correlates .93 with the essentially stable personality trait known as conscientiousness.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously, I sometimes wonder what the fucking point is of trying to upload some minimal standard of scientific integrity.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you've ever wondered how to blow up a plane with liquids that you might take through security, the news service of France's national broadcaster @franceinfo.fr has all the info you need right there on their website. 🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Among the most over-the-top call and response riffs ever recorded. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=avXh...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Today's AI disaster is from Adobe Acrobat, which read a study about an intervention that was entirely conducted during Covid and somehow hallucinated that the baseline data were collected in the summer of 2019. 🙄

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Something something stopped clock something... for once this seems like a good idea by Trump, if he actually manages to carry it out. The US government spends more per capita on healthcare than France does, but has never used that to tell pharma companies what it's prepared to pay, because lobbying.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In my experience, a lot of people in politics are chancers^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h high-risk-seeking extroverts with limited scientific knowledge

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

That doesn't seem like too much to hope for. 😳

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

There is an old joke in tech circles about "Why is <hyped thing> like teenage sex?" Answer: Everyone talks about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, most people aren't actually doing it, and those who are, are either doing it badly or not very safely.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

What's a canonical source for "pre-post ICC values < 0.5 indicate poor reliability"? Everyone seems to use this. Did Cohen or someone come up with it?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sure Bill Ackman will be all over this.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I guess the authors will tell me that Qualtrics must have been having a bad day.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Don't make me tap the "use the Oxford comma" sign.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I was today years old when I realised/learned that "brazen" means "made of brass". See also "It takes some brass neck to do X", I guess.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Presumably level 1 is "fluffy kittens"

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Data Colada has submitted a motion for sanction against Francesca Gino and her former lawyer team. I hope the court rules in their favor. It will be a powerful message that sleuths can expose fake research without fearing legal consequences. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

No, no, the *other* left. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Yet more evidence that trusting the results of a scientific paper means trusting people who are not statisticians or software professionals to do statistics and software without errors. Good luck with that.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Are you an idiot? Why not prove it by going to study in Russia?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is actually how most of the population reasons about the prevalence of many types of events.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Since the document that they are asking people sign requires a statement that the policies to not violate any *applicable* Federal laws, I guess that ought to be trivial, since no US Federal laws are applicable in Sweden. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments