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501. Tigers have experienced little evolutionary pressure to evolve green coloration and they appear green to deer (because deer are dichromats) (Fennell et al. 2019) 502. In the United States, Holocaust survivors are more supportive of helping refugees (Wayne and Zhukov 2022) 503. There is a talisman effect in insurance, i.e., consumers who have an […]

For små ti år siden skrev jeg et indlæg med den pointe, at Breaking Bad bliver bedre over tid. Jeg skrev det pågældende indlæg før serien var afsluttet, og det er derfor på sin plads med en lille (forsinket) opdatering. I nedenstående tabel viser jeg de gennemsnitlige IMDb ratings for de fem sæsoner. Der er […]

1309. Introduction to Data Science: Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R 1310. K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Explained 1311. The Ultimate Guide to Deploying a Shiny App on AWS 1312. Controlling for “X”? 1313. The Bias Variance Tradeoff 1314. Double Descent: A Visual Introduction, A Mathematical Explanation 1315. Decision Trees 1316. The Importance of Data Splitting […]

For seks år siden, den 18. juni 2016, kunne diverse medier rapportere, på baggrund af en meningsmåling, at hver tiende vælger ville stemme på Nye Borgerlige. Den pågældende meningsmåling var foretaget af Voxmeter og fik ikke overraskende en del omtale. Jeg kritiserede dengang meningsmålingen for at være ikke alene af tvivlsom karakter, men også decideret […]

In 2018, I wrote a post about a data visualisation showing that the age you consider ‘old’ is the square root of your age times 8. So if you are 25 you will consider 40 to be old. In brief, my main problem with the data visualisation was the low N (~200), i.e., the small […]