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Nïck Brown🌻
@sTeamTraen
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 in 🇪🇸. PhD in psychology & self-appointed data police cadet. Interested in the lower tail of many distributions. Not yet disabled.
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
torrentdemalpas.hopto.org
Joined July 2009
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Nov 18, 2024
    My account at the butterfly ball is sTeamTraen.eu. If you are joining the exodus over there, you will find a placeholder account with the default domain, sTeamTraen.bsky.social, but please don't follow it. It has clear instructions to that effect, but, y'know...
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Apr 2, 2020
    Since 5G is trending (in my head), an anecode that was told to me when I visited the operations centre of a large French mobile phone operator a few years ago. I asked one of the engineers who worked on mast deployment if they got a lot of opposition. /1
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Feb 14, 2021
    This comment from Tukey (1986, doi.org/10.2307/2683137) should be read out in the first 10 minutes of every statistics class, and at 20-minute intervals thereafter.
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Mar 15, 2022
    When you ask the authors of articles in Science® to share their data, which the journal told you was mandatory when you submitted your article, the response very often boils down to GFY. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1…
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Sep 30, 2020
    In a crowded field, my least favourite COVID-19 minimisation troll tactic is the claim that "99.5% of people survive". An angry thread. /1
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Nov 26, 2020
    Something rather strange is happening with the COVID-19 statistics produced by the Turkish Ministry of Health. (Thread) /1
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Nov 20, 2021
    Stolen from Reddit. May be of some use.
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Jan 12, 2024
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    Another 250+ words by Oxman (2011, left) that appear identically in Mindy Eng's bachelor thesis (2010, right).
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Jan 12, 2024
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    Continuing with Oxman (2011, left), compare this 120-word paragraph with the 2010 bachelor's thesis by her supervisee, Mindy Eng (right). dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/hand…
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Apr 2, 2020
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    BTW, telco executives and engineers live in areas with 5G reception like everyone else, just as pharma executives die from cancer even though their companies are apparently hiding a $5 cure. Maybe those execs and engineers are prepared to die for the shareholders. /9 /end