Just had a moment of utter confusion trying to figure out what “pulmonary stenosis” is before I remembered there’s a heart valve that steals lung valor.

I don’t want to call them out directly but there’s a person on statstwitter asking for help building a bad model because they don’t have the resources to do it well and they have to deliver on a contract.

On a related note, people often ask me why I didn’t like working in tech…

Why is applied statistical education usually presented like this:

1. How the method works
2. How to implement it
3. Why to implement it

... when you should probably have a good grasp of #3 before even considering the other stuff?

Good news, I matched at Shoe Hospital!

Evan C Zoldan greenbag.org/v16n1/v16n1_ex…

New instrumental variable just dropped

Best part of taking the train is saving the planet.

Second best part is judging people who drive. 🤭

Goes to show those of you using length of stay outcome measures based on calendar days are stuck in the zeroth century.

happy ten-year anniversary to the best shouts and murmurs of all time newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…

Bad news, Johnny has an RV heave.

I'm laughing, clapping, honking with glee

Just now learning I could have made it on Broadway

I'm like the Lady Macbeth of cleaning data

I just paused Gilmore Girls so I could rewatch The Music Man, is it possible my taste in media is just 'filmed at Warner Brother's Midwest Street Square'? youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-…

The funniest thing to happen to me today was Googling Simon Wood specifically to find his Twitter handle and finding this in the first line of his bio instead

Just FYI the doctors who never look anything up out of fear of looking uninformed are just making things up on the fly instead, pick your poison.

I was an econ major for a minute when I was 18 and it's a really good thing I didn't know at the time that economists basically get to answer whatever questions they feel like using whatever methods sound fun because I definitely would have done that instead of med school.