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hfgjdssaghj commented on Remote workers care less for the company's mission axios.com/2023/08/27/remo... · Posted by u/donutshop
> Fully remote workers reported higher levels of engagement than their in-office colleagues
The article seemed so confused about what it wanted to say: my impression was that the data didn’t fit the author’s pre-existing bias, so the article was written in a way that implied something that wasn’t backed by the data at all.
hfgjdssaghj commented on A robust Bayesian look at Covid origins michaelweissman.substack.... · Posted by u/hfgjdssaghj
Explain why and how you assign weight to the furin cleavage site.
At this point it’s necessary to recognize that not only the prior odds P0(LL)/P0(ZW) but also the likelihoods involve some subjective estimates. In order to obtain a convincing answer we need to include some range of plausible values for each likelihood ratio
Your judgement of likelihood? Your range of estimates is informed by what exactly?
There are ten long and very detailed technical paragraphs in the article itself, and even an appendix with even more detailed methodology to explain this exact question.
I really don’t know what more the writer needs to do, if this thorough and scientific analysis is characterized as “mood and vibe”.
hfgjdssaghj commented on A robust Bayesian look at Covid origins michaelweissman.substack.... · Posted by u/hfgjdssaghj
"Robust" please. It's "I assign arbitrary weight to papers based on mood and vibe, and discount views I don't like about wet market vs lab leak"
Nothing wrong with a Bayesian approach to summing over your weights, but the weights are still subjective, no?
> based on mood and vibe
Can you give a solid example of the “mood and vibe” methodology in the analysis?
hfgjdssaghj commented on App Store search is so broken, you can't find apps by name imgur.com/a/TUJvVJn... · Posted by u/supermatt
I tried this search with the exact same string and the correct app was at the top of my results.
As usual, motor-loving Swedes just want some good international PR, while driving their beloved cars as usual.