At the beginning of Covid, my non-degreed self had only a vague understanding of relative vs absolute value in stats.
Understanding something as simple as that leads to mind-blowing awareness of statistical manipulation. I can totally understand the conclusions of this study.
Due to my interest in health rabbit-holes, I've read many studie…
At the beginning of Covid, my non-degreed self had only a vague understanding of relative vs absolute value in stats.
Understanding something as simple as that leads to mind-blowing awareness of statistical manipulation. I can totally understand the conclusions of this study.
Due to my interest in health rabbit-holes, I've read many studies. I understand some of what I read, but usually not all of it. I know this.
I have read more than one, though, where the conclusions drawn seemed to have little connection to the actual data.
This was a very common tactic in 2020-2021 in mainstream news ( probably still is but I don’t read maintsteam news any longer). An article would copy and paste the last lines of the conclusion in a study and base the article on that. I don't think the reporters ever read the studies. I read quite a few of the methods and results sections and scratched my head how the conclusions were drawn or even how some of these papers were approved.
At the beginning of Covid, my non-degreed self had only a vague understanding of relative vs absolute value in stats.
Understanding something as simple as that leads to mind-blowing awareness of statistical manipulation. I can totally understand the conclusions of this study.
Due to my interest in health rabbit-holes, I've read many studies. I understand some of what I read, but usually not all of it. I know this.
I have read more than one, though, where the conclusions drawn seemed to have little connection to the actual data.
Accident? I doubt it
"At the beginning of Covid, my non-degreed self had only a vague understanding of relative vs absolute value in stats."
"Due to my interest in health rabbit-holes, I've read many studies."
You're not wrong about the 'little connection to the actual data' part in the least.
And good on you for digging in and figuring things out. *high five*
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Former Nazi "Research Physician" and expat to the tiny island of San Lorenzo Julian Castle: “Self-taught, are you?"
Son of the Father of the Atomic Bomb Little Newt: "Isn't everybody?"
Castle: "Very good answer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18986-self-taught-are-you-julian-castle-asked-newt-isn-t-everybody-newt
Using the tern autodidact isn't too pretentious, I hope? 😉😉🙃🙃
Absolutely not.
In business if you know anything of value you are self taught. Because you can’t learn anything of value in business at school.
This was a very common tactic in 2020-2021 in mainstream news ( probably still is but I don’t read maintsteam news any longer). An article would copy and paste the last lines of the conclusion in a study and base the article on that. I don't think the reporters ever read the studies. I read quite a few of the methods and results sections and scratched my head how the conclusions were drawn or even how some of these papers were approved.