Forleden skrev jeg et indlæg om, hvorfor vi skal være påpasselig med at tolke for meget på baggrund af meningsmålingerne disse dage. Det skal dog ikke holde os fra at kigge på, hvad vi kan sige på baggrund af meningsmålingerne om hvor partierne står i dag. Her er, hvad vi kan sige med udgangspunkt i […]
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25 interesting facts #28
676. Many psychology researchers overestimate the evidence in favor of a theory if one or more results from a set of replication studies are statistically significant (van den Akker 2023) 677. The movie Sideways led to an increase in the growing of pinot noir grapes in lower value Central Valley vineyards (Consoli et al. 2022) […]
FiveThirtyEight on opinion polls in the media
I came across this article by Nate Silver published back in October last year. In the article, Nate Silver formulates a very important point on the difference between all opinion polls and the polls highlighted in the media: A lot of the value the models provide, as I mentioned, is in looking at all the […]
Twitter Blue as anti-recommendations
I really like Twitter Blue, Twitter’s opt-in subscription that adds a blue checkmark to people’s account. I would never pay for it myself and that is the reason I like it. In brief, Twitter Blue is similar to a face tattoo. Sure, you are allowed to pay for it and show it to the world, […]
Potpourri: Statistics #92
1647. Data Vis Dispatch: January 3, January 10, January 17, January 24, January 31 1648. The list of 2022 visualization lists 1649. From Documents to Data: A Framework for Total Corpus Quality 1650. Efficient Python for Data Scientists 1651. Deep R Programming 1652. Minimalist Data Wrangling with Python 1653. Everything You Wanted to Know about […]