Just a reminder, it is 2023 and the expectation is that you will try to solve your problem first before asking "quick questions" of subordinates because you "figured they would know." Literally, google this stuff.
This is helpful
Bc I also found myself repeating the same thing over & over, I created this document ⬇️ to help students structure quant journal articles
(In creating this, I adopted @JessicaCalarco's guide for writing qual articles, a great resource: https://t.co/eIPykgFSQe)
WHY do we divide by n-1 when computing the sample variance?
I've never seen this way of explaining this concept anywhere else.
Read on if you want a completely new way of looking at this.
A professor in my PhD program once told me that to be successful at research in Academia, I needed to crave it, like people crave chocolate. I needed to want to do it despite lack of recognition, reward, and influence, to be obsessed with it. 20 years later & I am finally there.
@pbaJackson That dance scene was SO bad. It was bad then and it has not aged well at all. The only dance scene from a movie that is worse, IMO, is the one from Napoleon Dynamite- but we knew the dancing was going to be bad. It had to be bad.
@pbaJackson Well, what are you trying to do? Its been my experience that when I get frustrated with my love (Stata) its usually because I am doing it wrong. It must be bad if you're throwing it in the trash with R.
@MereSophistry Yeah- I think its fun to think about 500 years from now, when the US democracy experiment failed and grad students or historians argue about the sounds that exemplify the beginning of the end. There are so many good ones...
I am going to ask a terribly framed question so bear with me:
Where can I find a full course in statistics? Not the standard "statistics for social sciences" or "statistics for people who hate maths" but (continued below)
I started this morning with a mandatory workplace safety training that included too much detail on Run, Hide, Fight. Like, the information is good, but the fact that I have to do it in 2023 makes me want to flip a desk.