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Rex Douglass
RexDouglass
Polity's measurement problems have been known since the 90s. Vdem was made bc of them. The new score is below 1800s levels which is impossible. So what are we supposed
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Rachel Thomas
math_rachel
In computational systems, we are often interested in unobservable theoretical constructs (eg "creditworthiness", "teacher quality", "risk to society"). Many harms are result of a mismatch between the constructs
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Luca Dellanna
DellAnnaLuca
WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER, P2A Nobel prize can tell us two things: how good is the recipient or how bad is the committee.“Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you
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Jaya_Upadhyaya
Jayalko1
NARHARI AND BHAGWAN PANDURANG/VITTHALOnce a goldsmith by the name of Narhari lived in Pandharpur. He excelled in his craft. He had vowed not to look at Pandurang or visit his
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Ashley King
AKpsychoalchemy
In the rush to combat the crazies who think that personal feelings and wholesale subjectivity should rule the day, the empiricists are pushing back...and for good reason. But the allegiance
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President Elect Durinn McFurren
DurinnM
I want to talk briefly about a couple of reasons that physicists are so weirded out by quantum mechanics.Now, I want to hasten to say that quantum theories give REALLY
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Women in Statistics and Data Science
WomenInStat
I've been given a large platform this week. I am a cis white woman and I have immense privilege. Since joining NYU seven years ago, I have been working and
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Rickesh Lakhani
ConstantChanges
“How do you measure the impact of a hug?”I heard a story about a charity leader asking this question during a difficult discussion about measuring social impact.I’m all about measurement
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Chris Vickery
VickerySec
Upon realizing a state of unconventional war currently exists worldwide, each nation wishing to contribute toward victory for freedom, democracy, and peaceful coexistence must immediately begin taking action to break
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RaceRealist
Race__Realist
1/n Let's take a look at this recent article by @AndrewRAConway on "measuring intelligence."https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/channel-g/202012/measurement-matters?amp&__twitter_impression=true https://twitter.com/sbk
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Nathaniel Haines
Nate__Haines
1/5 One example of modeling changes in "a single item" over time is given by reinforcement learning. This series of blogs details a simple example: http://haines-lab.com/post/2017-04-04-choice_rl_1/ https://twitter.com/aaronjfishe
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David Ma, hiring for eng
madavidj
As a recovering quant, I share this cautious sentiment about data driven decisions.Ways data driven decision can be worse than careful thinking:https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1288674294881427456 Precision is not accuracyA repeatable and
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Heather Lanthorn (ScD if you need to know!)
hlanthorn
[rant] 1/ i don't want to get too Rumsfeldian before i have even had my tea this morning but... "we" (researchers, dev people, general) need to be more specific when
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Merijn "Billions of tests" Knibbe
MerijnKnibbe
1/n I do not like the phrases 'social capital' or 'natural capital'. Why not? A short but deep dive into the concept of capital:https://twitter.com/NatCapCoalition/status/1334801574481305601 2/n Let's first state a seemi
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Stephan Heunis - Every day I'm Job Searchin' 🎶🕺
fmrwhy
Discussion that I think is worth having out in the open: coauthors and I were rejected from having a neuroimaging dataset reviewed in @ScientificData because data access required signing a
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Eric Seufert
eric_seufert
No, this isnt correct re: Uber ad fraud case. With basic reporting & incrementality measurement, the Uber team would have realized they were being cheated. The vendors werent using sophisticated
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