Jacob

@jcb.bsky.social

number crunching formerly msc @ lse stats, surveys @ us census

In response to this follow up from Kaufmann, I updated my post today to clarify that I don’t think the weighted or unweighted estimates are a good answer to this question

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16 million views and a bunch of media write-ups for a claim that falls apart if you actually use the survey weights like you are taught to do in undergrad. I would say the University of Buckingham is not sending their best but realistically they probably are

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The world is much more complex than we can individually comprehend. If systems don't have ways of simplifying that ("attenuating variety" per Stafford Beer) then the variety will still be attenuated, just in a completely arbitrary way that leads to us prioritising completely the wrong information.

developing a sort of descriptive thesis that there is a growing anti-civilization movement coalescing around destroying the pillars of modernity: pharmaceuticals, efficient agriculture, and education and their assumptions are widely culturally accepted

Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept.. Behold @iambic.bot!

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The current water level is 4189.5 ft above mean sea level which compared with 1 year ago today is 0.91 ft higher ⬆️ 2 years ago today is 0.38 ft lower ⬇️ 10 years ago today is 4.51 ft lower ⬇️ as of Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 06:15:00 PM MT

It’s so dark to see people grind all of this into content of the same flavor as everything else. “Laughing til my head comes off, who’s in a bunker,” etc

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The current water level is 4189.1 ft above mean sea level which compared with 1 year ago today is 0.31 ft higher ⬆️ 2 years ago today is 1.03 ft lower ⬇️ 10 years ago today is 5.02 ft lower ⬇️ as of Monday, October 09, 2023 at 06:15:00 PM MT

The current water level is 4189.1 ft above mean sea level which compared with 1 year ago today is 0.69 ft lower ⬇️ 2 years ago today is 2.07 ft lower ⬇️ 10 years ago today is 6.31 ft lower ⬇️ as of Monday, July 10, 2023 at 07:15:00 PM MT