W. Aaron Lee

healthcare affordability and outcomes @mckinsey. formerly data science @locusanalytics + brains and behavior @cornell. Curious. 🇲🇾

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

.@TheAthleticUK @MarkCarey93 is it possible to move away from using the smarterscout pizza charts? Putting aside the visual distortion of the slice areas, it’s terrible for comparing attributes across two players/points in time. Would much rather a grouped bar charts for those.

[Christopher D. Long 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌹 @octonion]

"I'm creating God," I announce, as I code a linear regression.

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Definitely read this as GitHub at first and got really confused

[Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome]

The president got permanently suspended from Twitter!
Your move, Grubhub.

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Just checking in

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

https://t.co/ziv6kQ3EBN

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

.@MKeithChen thinking about the effect of futured/futureless language on saving behavior — do you know if is there an effect on attitudes or remembrance of the departed? e.g. having to say “she was (is) a cheerful person”

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Side note: Keith’s remains my favorite TED talk, and one that pops up in random conversation even after all these years

[Adam Pearce @adamrpearce]

wanted to see how correlations between states differed between the 538 and Economist models so i built a little gizmo

https://t.co/3oNhNv9opC

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Only coming across this months later, but what a great body of work on effective and not-so-effective misinformation interventions

[David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand]

Today @GordPennycook & I wrote a @nytimes op ed

"The Right Way to Fix Fake News"
https://t.co/dyF84g6oqv

tl;dr: Platforms must rigorously TEST interventions, b/c intuitions about what will work are often wrong

In this thread I unpack the many studies behind our op ed

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[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

https://t.co/0mKk6fYYok

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

My coworkers and I quote this book once a week... so, 20% of the time (see #7). Buy it!!

[Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr]

If you're wondering how you can support me, I don't have a Patreon but I do have a 2021 Calendar of tricks to appear smart in meetings that's out TODAY! Here's a thread of a few of my favorites...

1. Say "it is what it is" https://t.co/ZuLwXvF9L0

[Brian Resnick @B_resnick]

Intellectual humility spotted in the wild

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

What a journey it’s been @LFC. Jurgen Klopp is a legend among legends. via @TheAthleticUK

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

@WomenInStat can you make a longer video/online course about this please!!

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

@opinion_joe

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Not necessarily disagreeing with the rest of this article/thread, but this is misleading.

This is how exponential growth works. If you had a 2x infection rate, it’d take just one day to get to the second 100,000 — regardless of how long it took to get to the first 100k

[Bloomberg Opinion @opinion]

It took almost two months for California to record its first 100,000 positive cases; it took less than three weeks to record its most recent 100,000.

🛏️🏥Los Angeles is said to be close to running out of available hospital beds https://t.co/J5L2TE2iR6

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Really really want this please. Please.

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

The thing about impostor syndrome is you _know_ impostor syndrome exists, and that it applies to some people who actually are qualified, unlike you, the unqualified impostor.

[Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw]

Ethical dilemmas, 2020 edition

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

Realizing I had a Freudian slip on behalf of pharma here.. “customers” as opposed to “patients”

[W. Aaron Lee @aaronwflee]

“In normal circumstances, we would price a medicine according to the value it provides,” that’s a nice way to say “as expensive as possible without customers refusing to pay” https://t.co/0rxdyv8VmZ