@deltamagnet@ContraPoints Did you watch the segment? The point was that these products aren't properly labeled, making informed consumption difficult.
Any talk about bans was in the conditional, "*if* states want to institute a ban, they should at least..."
@StatisticUrban Did they control for socio-economic status? I quickly checked some demographics and it seems that lesbians, for example, are more likely to be poor than straight women.
@StatisticUrban I agree. However, we absolutely should encourage people to do *more* than just vote
Voting is good; joining a labor union is also good.
@FreyaHolmer I feel like the problem with their proposed "true" answer is that both the orange and blue portal exist in the same space, so that in the frame with a stationary orange portal, *both* the blue portal and the cube are moving.
In this case, none of the two answers may be correct..
@heathertwiggy@morallawwithin Yea,
In all seriousness it is possible for the survival rate to be ~50% if, say, N >> 20 surgeries are performed per year globally
In this case the observed outcome would give a very strong indication that this *specific* surgeon is more adept than average
@MatthewBJane I interpret the brackets as denoting that the expected value is a functional.
I never get why mathbb is used for P, E. Since P is a measure \mathcal{P} feels more intuitive idk
@Potatopolitics Idk generating time series such as this feels like a good way to empirically test economic theory.
A problem with economics as I understand the field is often the opposite, that economists stray away from methods used in the social sciences in favor of mathematical abstraction.