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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
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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🌻
    @sTeamTraen
    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
    Replying to @sTeamTraen
    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
    Replying to @sTeamTraen
    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
    Replying to @sTeamTraen
    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
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Dec 18, 2020
    A recent Brexiteer theme is how the UK can manage just fiene without food products from the EU. Just search for mentions of "Somerset Brie" and you'll find dozens of pompous claims from true patriots who eat no other cheese. But what do we know about Somerset Brie? A thread. /1
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Jan 12, 2024
    Have we had this one yet? Left: Oxman (2011), Virtual & Physical Prototyping 6(1), 3–31. doi.org/10.1080/174527… Right: Suresh (2001), Science 292(5526), 2447–2451. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Apr 2, 2020
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    Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people have killed or injured themselves or others by phoning or texting while driving, but for some reason the same people who think that telcos are out to give them cancer also think they can drive with one hand and half their brain. /8
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    Nïck Brown🌻
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    Sep 1, 2018
    Replying to @sgtwolverine
    I want Facebook to show me the same post at the top of my feed that I was about to read when my phone rang.