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This is outrageous but not without precedent
‘Stick to your principles and to the rules at all times. Never compromise. If you compromise in anything, you will not feel well with yourself, and it will create a liability that will come back to haunt you.’

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Leader Schumer: "What does a bad leader do when they get bad news? Shoot the messenger. That's just what happened with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

It is very unfortunate that the US will no longer have any reliable federal statistics until Trump is gone.

Even the best private job statistics, ADP, tends to be far off from the more comprehensive Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers. These statistics cannot be privatized.

🚨 Trump is demanding the firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, because the jobs report was bad.

When you can’t rig the numbers, fire the messenger. Classic authoritarian move.

Donald Trump is firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics right after they reported weak jobs numbers. If firing someone in charge of statistics because the objective statistics make you look bad isn't some authoritarian nonsense, I don't know what is.

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

The head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics during Trump’s first admin.

How does the risk of death change as we age?

We often now hear the term “Bayesian borrowing” in trials. But what is Bayesian borrowing and what are the pros and cons around its use? 1/6
#MethodologyMonday #122

Fair play to them - and to Tipperary today! Tá sé (camánaíocht) an-chosúil le hiománaíocht - ach is dóigh liom go bhfuil an iománaíocht níos fearr - cé nach amhlaidh atá an scéal i mbliana do Chorcaigh!

I hope it was a more balanced game than today’s All Ireland Hurling final - a game of two halves.

We’ve all been in meetings like this
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But, look, he is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

True and true. There are many cases where the calculations are intractable and numerical approaches (sometimes framed as simulation - e.g. Monte Carlo integration - but aren’t) are helpful. But data, and hence the related evidence are different. ‘No amount of computation compensates for ignorance.’

Nice commentary @stephensenn.bsky.social - needs as much attention as the original article!

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True. 4–7-8 breathing for me!

XKCD has a Tukey quote for Tukey's 110th birthday
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Many of his specific inventions have been made obsolete over time, but he was a major contributor to data analysis and visualisation being serious and respectable parts of statistics research

Does anyone else have problems with CAPTCHAs? Is the back of a traffic light not a traffic light? We live in a world where Completely Automated Public Turing tests tell Computers and Humans Apart but don’t!

Praying for you. Any churches nearby (rhetorical)?