My naija pple while we are on lock down, are you a bit confused about the reasoning behind the new lock down due to Covid-19. Here are some quick points:
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After 183 years, Mount St Maryโs College & Barlborough Hall School are closing their doors. Another victim of Labourโs reckless VAT raid on education. This isnโt reform - itโs educational vandalism.
Excellence punished. Choice destroyed.
A literature review isn't a REVIEW without including critical discussion.
But, many students don't know how to add critique to their discussion.
Here's the structure for an academic critical discussion:
The use of proper academic language can be the difference between a publishable paper or a rejected paper.
Here are some common terms that you can include in different parts of your research paper, to help level up your academic writing:
The ideal age to get married, with the least likelihood of divorce in the first five years, is 28 to 32,โ
โCalled the 'Goldilocks theory,' the idea is that people at this age are not too old and not too young.โ
I talked with my mate..@samlassa
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Excellent reflections by panellists on understanding the health workforce heterogeneity and policy requirements better. Several frontiers and opportunities for advancing the health workforce science globally as put by @JimC_HRH@docsheikh
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A fantastic event, featuring, among others, the wonderful @samlassa - who I'm very proud to say was my first PhD student (some years back!)
Definitely worth registering for... !
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Four life lessons I learned while studying statistics:
1. False positives vs false negatives: Fewer false positives often come at the cost of more false negatives and vice versa.
LIFE LESSON: The less stringent your criteria, the more crap you need to deal with, but the more stringent your criteria, the more genuinely good stuff you miss out on.
Missed opportunities is the price of never wasting your time. Wasting your time is the price of never missing an opportunity.
2. Overfitting vs Underfitting: Less flexible models can't fit the data. More flexible models are prone to picking up patterns that don't generalize.
LIFE LESSON: Over-thinking makes you more vulnerable to seeing patterns that aren't there. It turns you into a misinformation machine.
3. Bias vs Variance: More complex models give less consistent answers. Less complex models give more biased answers.
LIFE LESSON: There is a natural trade-off between nuanced thought and consensus.
People get mad when experts disagree especially when non-experts don't but that's actually what you would expect.
4. Curse of Dimensionality: Given a fixed amount of scenarios to learn from, there's a point beyond which considering additional factors stops helping.
LIFE LESSON: If you haven't experienced much, keep things simple. Nuance without experience is actively harmful.
SUMMARY:
The common theme I see is these are cautionary tales for over-thinkers like me. There are hard mathematical limitations on what we can possibly know as rational beings.
There is wisdom in knowing when to think but there's also wisdom in knowing when to stop.
I really need people to understand the eye is an organ, like the brain, heart, and kidney. Itโs a very delicate organ. Donโt do this. Donโt fuck with your organs.
Thank you @samlassa et al for engaging with our commentaries!
Great the way @IJHPM is facilitating discussions amongst scholars & shedding new light on medical power, #GlobalHealth financing, professionalism, colonial legacies and other critical topics! ๐๐ป
Excited to share our latest paper in @IJHPM on power dynamics in Global Health @misaddiq@Ju_B81. Many thanks to @veena_sriram @Ra_Parashar@Sarah_Dlish@AKapilashrami Garrett Wallace for all your insightful and engaging commentary papers on this topic.
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The danger of Molnupiravar: extensive evidence of specific #SARCoV2 mutations this drug has induced across the world which can be passed along from people who do not clear the virus
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