🔥Kareem Carr 🔥
Stats PhD student @Harvard • Nerdy content crafted for a broad audience
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Your rapid test is positive. Does that mean you have covid? Here's the math you need to figure it out. A thread. 🧵 https://t.co/EKXnTSvT1E
Imagine somebody tweets that they think men on dating apps are jerks. A commenter asks, "Do you have any peer-reviewed publications to back up your claim?" The tweeter says they do...
My thoughts on calculus vs statistics showed up in not one but *two* newsletters this week. Slow Boring from @mattyglesias and Brad @Delong's substack. Where's my share of that swe...
I frequently see tweets debating the nature of racial disparities. Are they caused by fundamental biological differences? Are they the result of racism? I wanted to share my thoug...
Reproducibility seems like the bare minimum you'd want from good science, but what does "reproducibility" even mean? Two studies which both *intend* to investigate the same natural...
I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do after I graduate from my PhD program. I've decided that I WANT TO FIGHT BAD STATISTICS and I have several ideas for how to do it....
Just freaked out at the grocery store. Had all my shopping bags and had just stepped outside the store. Employee says to me "Hey I saw you put something in your bag". I'm like "Na...
I've noticed a lot of people misunderstand the ecological fallacy which basically says "Just because a statement is true about a group doesn't mean it's true about individuals in t...
How did I get this poll with almost 29k responses to balance perfectly? A thread. 👇 https://t.co/vqNYv6uV5v
Here’s the result of yesterday’s statistics experiment! The poll is significantly 😉 biased! WHY??? A thread.👇 https://t.co/VnIaTtUkMu
I think an RCT can show omitted variable bias. Technically, omitted variable bias applies to statistical models but an RCT can be randomized in a way that an analysis of that RCT t...
We don't have a "misinformation" problem. We have a miseducation problem. People don't know what a fact is, and they don't know what to do with a fact even when one is handed to th...