#Measure

Clare Griffiths

statsgeekclare

There is a flat out lie about COVID deaths circulating today saying we have switched the measure overnight to using 60-days. We have been reporting on both 60 and 28

NASA Earth

NASAEarth

We know that as human activity warms the planet, global sea level is rising. We know that about 2/3 of sea level rise so far has come from melting ice.

Colleen Doran

ColleenDoran

Don't give up on art because you don't make money at it. Art is speech and everyone has a right to a voice. Make art for yourself, it's fine. Art

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

Epidemiologists have a lot of words that start with "C": Causal (inference). Cohort. Collider. Collinearity. Counterfactual. Case-Control. However, a very important word that requires a lot thought in study design

Adam Harstad

AdamHarstad

Why is tanking bad?Every year a league awards one title and one 1.01 pick. Tanking doesn’t change that. It changes the identity of who gets which, but so does drafting

Growth = Discipline + Consistency

GrowHighHQ

We've all heard the saying: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"But how can we put this into practice?(Thread) • Accountability Always

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. A short thread on Goodhart's Law and Campbell's law.When natural scientists take measurements of a macroscopic physical system, the system does not respond by changing its behavior in ways

Tanya Snyder

TSnyderDC

Here are the ballot measures I’m watching today:1) CA Prop 22: Uber, Lyft & co. have poured $200+ million into a fight to keep classifying their drivers as contractors. It

Jamie Heard

JamieHeard5

Return on Capital Employed - Some Thoughts - Your thoughts welcomedROCE comes up as a measure of business performance, particularly with sophisticated long only accounts. Below are some pro's /

Becca

Beckz0rzz

THREAD DSA's victories and losses Win: Jovanka Beckles for Alameda County District Director, Ward 1 Loss: Jackie Fielder for CA State Senate District 11 Win: Yes on City Of Boulder

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

The polls were wrong. Models are worthless. Here’s how Dems blew it by trusting metrics rather than taking the common sense step of doing things that intuitively appeal to me,

David Vorick

DavidVorick

The recent fad of rebasing cryptocurrency is an exploit in the way that we measure market cap. A thread: The market cap of a cryptocurrency is the total number of

Austen Allred

Austen

Eliminating objective measures of performance doesn’t usually stop people from measuring, it just forces them to adopt subjective measures instead.Subjective measures are almost never good news for people who are

Ottawa Public Health

OttawaHealth

THREAD: MANDATORY MASKS. Please readPublic Health is about following evidence, so when we call for change, that change is the result of what our evidence is telling us. Lately evidence

Pracheeti

pracheetim

With all due respect @paststat - As you bash @dmuthuk for not knowing how to calculate alpha, your method isn't correct either. https://twitter.com/paststat/status/1291833394624487425cc @Prashanth_Krish (1/n) Alpha is a measure of

the frontman of evil

WorstPlace

The short answer is "Well,"The long answer is "Not exactly,"https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/1352707422931087360 If the goal is to push the majority of people "in poverty" right over the line so they

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