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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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Sometimes you snap a photo and you debate whether to share it for hours. 🪶

submitted 16 hours ago • 45 comments

For random reasons I was looking at a Wansink paper for the first time today, and the first statistical error is to be found before you even get to the Results section. doi.org/10.1086/519499

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Excellent irony from Steve Rosenberg here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Separated at birth...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There has to be a whole series of jokes here.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So frustrating being told "You must have a passport to board for the UK" by poorly-trained gate staff (at PMI today, but I've seen it elsewhere) who don't know about the exceptions. I really feel for the 1.5m EU citizens living in UK without a passport and trying to get back to their adopted home.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Kudos to Peter for putting on a yellow t-shirt and blue rucksack for this photo. 🇺🇦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s nice to see that Florida Man is now available in a bunch of different flavours

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

X continues to circle the drain

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

On the bright side, when this is all over, he will have a great career modelling for gimp suits.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"Cashing in ResearchCoin for ordinary money is possible but complicated." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

French speakers will be having a chortle at the name of this cult. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely superb piece that totally nails the Freakonomics/Huberman/Gladwell shitshow. Apologies to all my friends who have non-BS podcasts. chicagomaroon.com/45533/viewpo...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How journalism works. Headline: "OMG there's a problem" Article: "Actually we just made that up" www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This meme is going to be getting a lot of use over the next 47 months.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

FMS (I don't like the term, but here we are) is ostensibly about investigating error, but in practice it is very often about fraud. The target of the investigation is not neutral; it actively wants to stop FMS. Ergo, I submit 🙏, it is not a scientific discipline and should not be treated as one. /1

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

ChatGPT knocking it out of the park, and into the engine of an airliner full of orphans.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

PSA(*): You can be upset about what's happening and still try to get some work done. In fact, that might be a good way of coping. You don't have to reply to every debate that you start to lose with "Well, I think we all have bigger things to worry about right now". (*) Also "Note to Self".

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Y'all are sleeping on this. This is the story of how Old Man Gloom... found a serious GRIM inconsistency, followed it up, found the researcher had disappeared, *got the data years later by accident*, found the GRIM error was real but nothing, BUT the paper might be cooked for other reasons.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why does the logo for Grok look like the name of the president of China? 🤔

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Next time you see someone parking a Tesla, don't make a rude comment to the driver about Elmo. Maybe they just bought it to help someone else feel less bad about having bought it new. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments