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I hate it when my data is clever.

#professor #rstats #statistics #teaching #normality

Screenshot from a google document:
"This Q-Q plot is pretty straight and on the line. This shows that there is a normal distribution and is not shrewd"

Below this is a Q-Q plot of standardized residuals showing the points following the diagonal "normal" line relatively closely.

Is 'sane' just what most people agree on? Does being different automatically mean 'insane'? This quote challenges the very definition of normal. What if the outliers see things more clearly? Brain = broken. #Sanity #Normality #Conformity #Psychology #MindTrip #QuestionReality #DeepThoughts #Outsider #ThoughtProvoking

Surreal digital painting in the style of René Magritte depicting a bright, tidy suburban street scene made unsettling by impossible details: a house floats slightly off the ground, streetlights appear to melt, and figures have objects like green apples or clocks instead of heads, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that challenges perceptions of reality.

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don’t particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend’s temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Introduction (2007)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #exceptions #extraordinary #normalcy #normality #understanding #unusual #usual #blackswan

@ewen Is that even possible? #normality

About to Go Home

It is silly. I love to travel. I enjoy staying in hotels. I love the city of Boston. Why then did spending three nights in a hotel in Boston start to bum me out? It was nice. It was fun. It was a goofy little excursion away from the norm.

Why then, with all the things that I enjoyed about the entire situation, does the idea of being able to go home after work tonight fill me up with happiness? My wife and I will be home together. We’ll eat dinner together at home. We’ll sack out on the couch after dinner and watch TV in our living room at home. We’ll sleep in our own bed tonight. We’ll wake up at home tomorrow and be back on our regular, normal daily routine.

I love to travel. I love staying in hotels. I love being in the city of Boston. I guess I just love being at home with Jen more. When you look at it that way, it’s not even a little bit surprising.

Also, there are cats at home when there were no cats in the hotel. That’s gotta count for something too, right?

#backHome #Boston #bostonMassachusetts #Cats #Family #home #hotel #Jen #normalBehavior #normalRoutine #normality #ourHome #ourHouse #routine #spouse #Travel #wife

'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent

@writing @sociology

#language #writing #normality #patriarchy #woke #antiWoke #feminism #values #commOdon #lowercase #institutional #capitalLetters #camelCase #supremacy #domination #MAGA #culturalDiversity #boomers

@data @datadon 🧵

How to assess a statistical model?
How to choose between variables?

Pearson's #correlation is irrelevant if you suspect that the relationship is not a straight line.

If monotonic relationship:
"#Spearman’s rho is particularly useful for small samples where weak correlations are expected, as it can detect subtle monotonic trends." It is "widespread across disciplines where the measurement precision is not guaranteed".
"#Kendall’s Tau-b is less affected [than Spearman’s rho] by outliers in the data, making it a robust option for datasets with extreme values."
Ref: https://statisticseasily.com/kendall-tau-b-vs-spearman/

#normality #normalDistribution #modeling #dataDev #AIDev #ML #modelEvaluation #regression #modelling #dataLearning #featureEngineering #linearRegression #modeling #probability #probabilities #statistics #stats #correctionRatio #ML #Pearson #bias #regressionRedress #distributions

Went to @target in femme today with wife, had such a great experience. At checkout I was misgendered and my wife corrected her, and she lit up and showed us pictures of her dog and called me wifey till we payed out. It’s was so nice. #target #trans #normality #kindness #transgender

[19:09] Dans, taal en muziek in 'Normality No More': Onbegrepen breinen die heel nieuwsgierig maken

Ragazze Quartet, Via Berlin en Conny Janssen Danst werken samen in ‘Normality No More’, een voorstelling over mensen met een afwijkend functionerend brein. In maart komen ze naar het Noorden.

https://www.dvhn.nl/cultuur/Onbegrepen-breinen-die-nieuwsgierig-maken-29333710.html

#RagazzeQuartet #Conny #JanssenDanst #Normality #maart #Noorden

[19:09] Dans, taal en muziek in 'Normality No More': Onbegrepen breinen die heel nieuwsgierig maken

Ragazze Quartet, Via Berlin en Conny Janssen Danst werken samen in ‘Normality No More’, een voorstelling over mensen met een afwijkend functionerend brein. In maart komen ze naar het Noorden.

https://www.lc.nl/cultuur/Onbegrepen-breinen-die-nieuwsgierig-maken-29333710.html

#RagazzeQuartet #Conny #JanssenDanst #Normality #maart #Noorden

"The #gamma GLM is a relatively assumption-light means of #modeling non-negative data, given gamma's flexibility.
[…]
"Explaining what is used and what is not used, despite merits and demerits […]: Loosely, the larger the internal literature in any field on modelling techniques, the less inclined people in that field seem to be to try something different."

Nick Cox, 2013: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/67547/when-to-use-gamma-glms

#normality #normalDistribution #Γ #modelling #dataDev #AIDev #ML #AIEvaluation #logNormal

I was up at Woodies Coolock/ Malahide Road and they told everyone they were shutting early at 4pm. Helicopter buzzing around this evening again at 6pm. #EverythingFine #Normality

Looking for a cure?

#LizCarr has stepped away from acting to advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide. Her latest #documentary, "Better Off Dead?", explores the implications of such laws, focusing on how they endanger disabled individuals.

Travelling to Canada, Carr investigates the effects of permissive assisted suicide laws. There not only the terminally ill can opt for a medically assisted death. This practice is even extended to those facing social deprivation, presenting a grave ethical dilemma.

In Britain, Carr meets with staunch opponents, including Baroness Jane Campbell, who shares a personal story of having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order placed on her without consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U

#disability #eugenism #assistedDeath #assistedSuicide #suicide #Canada #normal #normality #conformance #conformation #ethics #sociology #queer #medecine #activism #militants #choice #euthanasia #depression #mentalHealth #disabilityRights #handicap

@devlord #CognitiveDissonance I guess?

The projected wish for "#normality" by #neurotypicals??

IDK, I'm just guessing...

What — me worry? 🤷🏽‍♂️

🇳🇫 #TAIWAN (#台灣): ❝#Normality continues amid #China 🇨🇳 [#military_drills]❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/05/25/2003818376
#正常的樣子
 #Same_shit_different_day
#同樣的事情_不同的一天
 #中國
 #軍事演習

Two people sitting in a cafe in Keelung nonchalantly ignore a TV broadcasting news about China's military drills around Taiwan.

MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman with the famous quote "WHAT--ME WORRY?" written across the top of his head.

In #astrology news:
Today's solar eclipse will have no effect upon either you or world affairs in general.
Everything will remain totally fucked.
#normality #eclipse #information