🔥Kareem Carr 🔥
Stats PhD student @Harvard • Nerdy content crafted for a broad audience
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It's been shocking to me to realize the extent to which the reliability of scientific knowledge depends a lot on the vibe of the scientific community that produced it.
Like a lot of people who enjoy making jokes on twitter, I frequently suffer from depression.
Bertrand Russell engaging in cancel culture: "I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or s...
Saw a non-academic comment "wait, do academics think they're poor?" and realized they had a point. Median income in the US is ~35k. I absolutely believe that academics are underpa...
Really great article by statistician @nataliexdean on how low-quality data are severely affecting the covid effort. https://t.co/JkRIcFLHtD
If free speech means anything, then we ought to be able to use our voices to engage in rational debate, but also to be annoying or silly or frivolous, or to say the truth about how...
I think the failures of the pandemic have exposed some cognitive biases in the science community. We overestimate how much people care about avoiding death We overestimate how mu...
I get why the lab leak hypothesis is of geopolitical interest, but I don't get how it's important scientifically. The question for me isn't "did covid come from a lab?" but rather,...
Very interesting take from @StatModeling : “The social sciences are useless. So why do we study them?” https://t.co/AWWMDJ8tv3
I think sometimes people are little too quick to claim that based on FACTS and LOGIC other people's risk preferences don't make sense.
I believe that the "Follow the science" slogan has become associated with increasingly unscientific attitudes. People shouldn't accept an argument because a prominent scientist sai...
Never confuse "sensitivity" and "specificity" again! Here's how I keep them straight. 👇 https://t.co/vNUcqgh7es