This makes me think of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
We should introduce the term “real human researchers” (RHR) to go with other nonsense phrases like “real world evidence”
Hallelujah - my personal take on "real world evidence/data" (as I see it used) is that it is a euphemism for data missing not at random
Happy reinstalling-all-your-R-packages day to all those who celebrate #rstats
today's useful tip
"Normalized incompetence" seems to sum up my day-to-day!
yep - often mentioned in the stats group I work in. We don't get it, and seeing it has been a long time we have not got it, I start to think it is simply because we are not very smart when everyone else apparently gets it
Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer:
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
I’ve seen situations in which people try to correct the scientific record and then critics act like that was superfluous or just not the right way to use one’s energy because “science is self-correcting.”
This just came to my mind