Ever wonder why MAGAs love Trump? Darwin explains: Humans are primates hard wired to respond more to fear/anger/& tribalism than to rational thought. Trump great fool most ways, but pure genius at exploiting primitive emotions. Lively 15 minute radio interview explores topic:

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Exceptionally well done research on the accuracy of astrology, giving many chances for astrology to work. #Statistics Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics

A word to the wise about “precision” medicine …

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Earths rotation viewed through a stabilized camera Credit: aaronjenkin

One thing did not occur to the Chinese statisticians -- to ask the medalists themselves where they belong.

#Statistics computing thought of the day: One of the most useful and powerful R #rstats packages you'll ever learn is data.table: hbiostat.org/rflow/manip Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics

Happy to present this NEW PAPER of the The STRATOS initiative on 'Regression without regrets: Initial data analysis is a prerequisite for multivariable regression' bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Frank Harrell Marianne Huebner #stratosida

What happened when MIT stopped paying Elsevier? Not much except they are saving a lot of money. "MIT is interested in collaborating with other libraries to reinvest these funds in community-controlled open publishing initiatives..." sparcopen.org/our-work/big-d…

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65 years ago today, Miles Davis released “Kind of Blue” Kind of Blue is regarded by many as a true masterpiece, the greatest jazz album ever recorded, and one of the best albums of all time… But what made the album so extraordinary? A thread 🧵

By now everyone should be very picky when it comes to new Freq vs Bayes articles. But this one is actually pretty good: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/axvcupj4/r…

“My experience as a reviewer for MDPI.” deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-…

#Statistics thought of the day: Let a=# published biomedical research papers per year, b=# with fraudulent research, c=# with incorrect or non-reproducible results due to design, analysis, or data inadequacy. b/a is too high. c/b > 1000.

1/2. I'm not a luddite, but based on some recent reading of ML/AI studies in exercise science, there is the potential for decades of damage due to the perception these approaches can outrun statistical fundamentals. Covered here are the general warnings, thelancet.com/journals/landi…