Statistics is basically this equation:
data = model + error
People often think the goal of statistics is to make the error as small as possible. The real goal is to measure the error as accurately as possible.
As an Italian, as a European, I remind my German friends: you produced Nazism, as we Italians and Spaniards produced fascism. It already brought Europe to ruins once.
You are responsible for what happens in your country. CHECK YOUR POLICE. Things are spiraling out of control.
Globally, we're moving back towards an aristocracy of wealth, more akin to the 19th century than the 20th.
Anyone who cares about social justice, about moving away from higher and higher levels of taxation on work, should be very concerned. Time to do something about it.
This is not a Netflix show. Elon Musk really IS a foreign billionaire meddling in YOUR democracy.
We need urgent campaign finance reform to close the loopholes he plans to exploit and all of us have to speak out to protect our politics as a space we can disagree agreeably. 1/2
@emlyn_yunfei@RoryStewartUK@X The resource you cite uses this approach as an example of a poor negotiation tactic that good negotiators have to guard against.
Prime Minister Starmer's lapidary statement re the Gaza genocide is problematic in at least two respects: 1. it gives the impression that what happened on Oct7 may remotely justify the military course that has ensued (which it does not, in any possible way); 2. it casts a shadow on the ongoing work of the ICJ (South Africa v Israel; Nicaragua v Germany) - after the World Court recognised the plausible risk of genocide within 15 days from the starting of the proceedings (clearly the rapidity of the first response underscores the seriousness of the case).
I trust UK international law scholars and practitioners will make their voice heard, and stand firmly against the politicization of int'l law.
@alexhallhall Just like the Conservative government had nobody to blame but themselves after we left the EU? Populists always find a new target for the mob.
Once more, with feeling.
The BBC should not leave it to guests to reveal who funds the organisations the other guests work for. This is what its own editorial guidelines say.
Ok, here we go: Much of my work concerns the history and return of scientific racism. I’ve written extensively about attempts to resurrect the shuffling corpse of
race science and eugenics for many years. Bigotry dressed up as biology. 1/n
We can’t just blame the angry young men who committed violence on our streets - we need to look deeper at the poisoning of the public discourse by powerful people in positions of authority - politicians , think tanks & media deliberately pumping out a divisive poisonous ideology
People who actually believe in democracy, like @BillGates and George Soros know that it cannot thrive without a free and diverse press with professional journalists.
Democracy takes a hit when people like you and Rupert Murdoch use their own media outlets to spew counterfactual, divisive propaganda.