ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
There usually more variance within groups than between groups. Odds ratio is more important than almost anything else. There are more false positives/false negatives out there than people realize, including in published research. Discount any research without a power analysis. It is underpowered.
Archaeoasteonomy is an actual field and tool. We've used Archaeoastronomy to date a star map found in a burial once, and then used it to tie in the symboligy of items around the burial, in context of the map almost 2000 years old.
Almost any hobby/interest can begin with "I wonder how they...". I've learned so many things by being curious, and not afraid.
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Statistical regressions are basically kayfabe of professional wrestling. They don't offer an unquestionable natural truth. That .05 confidence level means that it's a good guess 95% of the time. In short, it's "real enough" for us to buy into it.
I don't do this often, but this one is important. A ton of commerce and privacy guardrails turn on and off based on your account or profile's date of birth. Always make sure your kids' DoB is set up correctly when they are using anything connected to the Internet.
Most legislatures have dedicated non-political staff that write bills. They are not typically written by legislators or their aides, although they certainly work with the drafting process. The same people are generally writing the legislation for both parties.
As a reporter, I never write the headlines for the story, and almost never the “display copy” (captions, subheadings, etc). Editors do. I rarely meet the photographers assigned to my stories; they set their shoots up separately on request of editor. It’s still a top-down, hierarchical business.
"fat over lean" which is a guideline for oil painting, also applies generally. this is the rule that thicker, transparent, and waxy, layers should be applied after thinner, opaque, and solvent-ey, layers. frex: you lay down marker,colored pencil, and then crayon it makes a good depth of color.