#Bias

Zoë McLaren, PhD

ZoeMcLaren

Why were election polls so far off in 2020? A likely culprit is "non-response bias" in the polling data driven by people I call "poll trolls". These trolls didn't respond

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tfoale

THREAD WARNING: This thread is entitled "How to outthink a Brexiter". It works equally well in debunking (or perhaps proving) any belief-based ideas. It's based on a logical method for

Jason Beale

jabeale

I made my living questioning, interrogating, debriefing, and interviewing people for almost 30 years. A few observations about Strzok interviewing Hillary, Huma, Mills, and Flynn: 1/https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/938182241569726

Lila Rose

LilaGraceRose

The extreme bias of much of the media, coupled with Big Tech's double standards for censorship, fuels disinformation and conspiracy theories. If the ones decrying disinformation are themselves peddling unfair

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

In our epidemiology course for journalists, I used this as example of selection bias & uncritical journalistic reporting.Here are a few headlines in Indian media screaming that 15% of Indians

Scott Barolo

sbarolo

Many GRE proponents say that grad programs need to prove that dropping the GRE increases diversity. No. The burden of proof is on ETS to show that their product is

Javeed Sukhera MD PhD

javeedsukhera

A few thoughts about research funding pertaining to systemic racism, structural bias, and inequity in health sciences and related disciplines... As a qualitative researcher with a PhD in education, finding

The Everyman - Daily Optimization Threads

_TheEveryman_

These are divisive times.Perhaps worse,Nobody can hear out the other side.One of the major reasons why is something calledConfirmation bias.Today's thread won't cover anything controversial,But it will explain why people

Nadine Nakagawa

NadineNakagawa

We need a real conversation about journalism & bias. There’s a veneer of so-called objectivity when there really is no such thing which is being revealed in some recent anti-poverty

Barbara Melville-Jóhannesson

keyeri

‘Post’ and ‘syndrome’ are inaccurate and stigmatising. They've been weaponised against patients with ME/CFS for decades. We can’t let that continue. But going against convention opens cans of worms for

Mohammed Nalla, CFA

MohammedNalla

So here's some thought for your Friday. It's been doing the rounds on social media... talking Survivorship Bias and how we view data. Thread below:#investments #strategy In WW2, the US

Leon Palafox

leonpalafox

What if we've been thinking on Machine Learning and Ethics in the wrong way. A thread. Machine Learning is, by its very definition the act of learning from data to

ChiariChey

ChiariChey

Hey NT writers,If you watched Rain Man or read a book from 1972 that inspired you to write about that autistic toddler who finally spoke or that one kid you

MedEd Pittsburgh

MedEdPGH

1/ Clinical Reasoning Series – Cognitive Bias Ever felt the thrill of making crucial diagnosis? The pain of missing a diagnosis? Yeah, us too Clinical reasoning is hard, so let’s

Kevin Chen

jiafengchen42

I want to open a discussion about this post by Gelman (@StatModeling) and various aspects of RDD inference. Gelman criticizes a paper that shows a close-election victory effect of 2-10

Anthony Lee Zhang

AnthonyLeeZhang

Train headed towards 5 people, you can redirect it to one person by pulling a switch. Do you pull it?The bureaucrat: I am not getting anywhere close to that switch.

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