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do you think that angels and demons and saints and all that could get their horns and halos tangled together and rip each other's heads off like deer do while fighting sometimes

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a new study shows that increasing your salmon consumption now may lead to a positive impact on the total amount of salmon you will have eaten in the past, in the future

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Is that a valid argument in your pants or is it just a phallacy?

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"don't perform self-surgery! only medical professionals should do that!" appeal to authority. "no one does that!" bandwagon fallacy. "you're crazy!" ad hominem

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she mutate() on my df until i FatalError

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"Blorbo from my shows" no. Blorbo from my BA. Blorbo from my major. Blorbo from my primary source document.

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Making barplots and histograms in R but colouring them hotpink because it’s all I have left.

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you know what. r studio might not be the easiest or most straightforward or least stressful way to process data. but at least it gives you the opportunity to create some of the worst graphs you have ever seen in your life

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in RStudio. straight up “instolling it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My pakage

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my supervisor telling me about tidyverse: you probably use it and know it really well. i cant get the hang of it. i feel like a dinosaur. it is super modern and is supposed to be intuitive, but base R is so much better for me.

me, who only ever made one (1) ggplot: *cricket noises*

me later when i want to count mean for group of data using dplyr: HOW IS THIS INTUITIVE

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I don’t think people understand how bad Trump cutting research funding is. People keep assuming there will be no research at all continuing on…false! This will almost certainly lead to an uptick of biased, privately funded studies (think: leading dog food brand funds study that finds their dog food to be the most nutritionally complete)…it’s going to be a mess trying to determine what’s real, accurate scientific information.

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I was spoiled by my first randomly selected country being canada. The total planted area for any given crop is. Not completely available, but there are easily found historical records. I can compare that and yield with population VERY easily

Equatorial Guinea, however. I can find current estimates of total land used for agriculture, and some historical figures for overall agricultural land use behind a paywall, but there is NOTHING for crop specific planted area. How am i meant to find the relationship between population and staple crop production if there is not enough information on staple crop production

Must i look at this wholesale? Must i pay 30$ to look at this wholesale?

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There is Nothing more agonizing than realizing that a variable means something different than you thought it did

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I have this sense that when people say (or I think) "oh it seems like this always happens" about something, it has a very high chance of being confirmation bias

But maybe that's just confirmation bias...

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PLEASE tag me in posts talking about statistics, data, or rhetoric. Send me papers or articles. Screenshot some interesting arguments. I long to pick apart the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ and all the little technicalities available to me.

Also surveys. I LOVE survey design, please ask me to critique surveys

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I am willing to accept a degree of variable repetition when you’ve clearly pieced a dataframe together from multiple sources.

But.

Having Year and Year.Code from the same dataframe, with the EXACT same values, RIGHT next to each other, is too much. Clean your data even SLIGHTLY before making it publicly available, I BEG of you

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Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.