BAD DataTakes
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https://t.co/IOLgCbvvRj might get more active: @[email protected] https://t.co/rf3SpI2KUI Tracking bad use of data; data is plural;
Joined September 2021
Just a reminder that I did set up a substack as my official backup.
Hi new friends. see this thread for how this account works, how it's somewhat different from @GraphCrimes and how it's somewhat different from bad take twitter
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Should probably bookmark this one for the future.
@besttrousers This person has never looked at data in their lives.
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If Obama ran for president in 2028 he would be younger than Trump was in 2016.
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BTW this is the main reason I didn't give a shit about Biden's health. They were just going to replace him with ANOTHER octogenarian. One health problem for another. Meanwhile trump was actively sundowning on the campaign trail. Complete double standard.
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Really is wild how the White House is actively covering up information on Trump's health and the media seems extremely uninterested considering how they treated Biden's health.
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The replies to this are why not everyone should do open source investigating.
This photo posted by Trump's team today appears to have been edited with an app, such as FaceApp, to give him an artificial smile. (Also, zoom in on the facial expressions of the folks in the background.)
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Silver especially has been very big on "Everyone remembered 2019 Kamala Harris being extreme lib" because of her policies at the time but all the polling indicated she was seen as a continuation of Biden, and that both Biden AND Harris were viewed as more extreme than Trump.
Lazy cope. I don't think the wokeness stuff was especially important, but Harris went very left on culture stuff in 2019. More importantly we had 9.1% peak inflation, much higher immigration, and then Ds initially renominated an 82 y/o who was obviously unfit for the job.
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At the end of the day, people didn't believe trump when he said extreme things and assumed that he would be "change". Its hard to win elections when people just refuse reality
This seems right to me. Be wary of any election analysis that is just pushing personal narrative by proxy. If it sounds like "Harris would have won if she agreed with me more" it's most likely wrong.
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And the chart was just one meta analysis so it's not law. But the data seem to show co-sleeping being more dangerous. Also, despite Kauffman's post this chart doesn't even look at obesity. (Of course, this guy is a bad person, but we all know that by now).
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The chart is from here; I got pay walled after a bit. Emily Oster is a parenting blogger who generally knows how to use data, but also can manipulate it at the same time. Chart seems legit, although I didn't see the significance numbers.
parentdata.org
Infant co-sleeping is a fraught topic. Last year The Cut asked, “Are we all secretly co-sleeping?” and concluded, basically, yes.
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Co-sleeping is more dangerous than having the baby in a bassinet. Jeremy's bad data take is disproven by the very chart he posted.
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Sample size is way too small for this kind of analysis. This just isn't telling you anything . (And there's decent enough reason to just doubt the numbers).
Who commits mass shootings?. 2015–2025 public incidents (4+ killed), per million:. 1.Trans/NB (Bio Male) – 0.769.2.Trans/NB (Bio Female) – 0.667.3.Asian Men – 0.408.4. Black Men – 0.198.5.White Men – 0.176.6.Asian Women – 0.097.7.Hispanic Men – 0.094
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This seems right to me. Be wary of any election analysis that is just pushing personal narrative by proxy. If it sounds like "Harris would have won if she agreed with me more" it's most likely wrong.
Two things can be true at once: . 1. The Harris campaign made strategic errors—most notably by not letting there be daylight between her and Biden. 2. Harris winning was the only way to stop fascism. If you weren’t engaged in that effort fully, you’re also part of the problem.
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Me, in a punk rock t-shirt, presenting my charts to the client.
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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An enlightening graph.
This is my favorite rendition of the stupid heat map so far.
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Tech is still in the fold. Tech workers are still overwhelmingly dem. But a series of tech execs have gone full MAGA and they aren't in the fold. Its the billionaires who want to turn America into a techno fascist state that we don't like.
I think a lot was accomplished for the common good back when Barack Obama was president and the tent was capacious enough to encompass tech.
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Depending on what this means, this has global consequences. The United States CDC, despite the problems, is a major global leader in public health and disease prevention. They make a LOT of important things happen.
BREAKING: At least 3 CDC leaders have resigned tonight: . Dan Jernigan, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases . Deb Houry, chief medical officer . Demetre Daskalakis, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases . Possibly more TK.
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The Republican party is a death cult. They hate children except as as victims to exploit. The GOP prefers children to be sick, in pain, or abused.
Not all but a lot of people. Mostly children.
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And let me tell you, its consistently the dumbest version of work that the ai is doing.
Very important paper, for two reasons:. 1) Key finding: employment *is* falling in early-career roles exposed to LLM automation. 2) Shows that administrative data (millions of payroll records) is much better than survey data for questions requiring precision (occupation x age).
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Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.
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Smh.
"Do you think crime rates in (X) have. ". Nationally:.Increased: 35%.Stayed the same: 27%.Decreased: 26%. Locally:.Stayed the same: 45%.Increased: 27%.Decreased: 17%. YouGov / Aug 25, 2025.
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