Joseph Bulbulia @joseph_bulbulia@qoto.org
Professor of psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, #NewZealand.
Senior Leadership Team of New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study
Likes: #paneldata, #causalinference, #running, #cats, #rstats, #quantitativepsychology
@freemo @Gargron @khird @trinsec I’ve just arrived, all I’ve seen are gentle STEM people. Maybe there are security issues I’m missing but such rigidity feels a little like the Monty Python, “we’re all individuals” scene. https://youtu.be/M5Flr-hQHcY
@freemo @trinsec @khird I like this wording, People should be free to respectfully ask each other “why do you believe that?” Likewise, when asked why we believe something, we should be encouraged to respectfully offer grounds. Free speech does not require shared beliefs. No conversation would be needed if we all thought alike! It rather requires respectful questioning, expression, and listening. We can embrace high standards both for openness and decorum. Indeed, these ideals are linked.
New issue of Statistical Thinking News is now out with pointers to several interesting articles: https://paper.li/stn #StatThink #statistics #biostatistics #clinical #sci
[In °C)] Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ #dataviz #boost #climatechange #climate #cop27
Death threats, racial slurs
I don't know much about mastodon yet. So I don't know what is technically feasible.
Automatically allowing any new instance to begin unblocked seems like a problem, because the nanoinstances devoted to harassment can set up and then once blocked respawn with new names at will.
I could post some ill-informed suggestions of how to solve that, but I'll leave it to people who actually know things. What can we do?
Fantastic paper describes the bias that may arise *from* #regularisation in a multi level model.
Simple correction the authors propose only works if there is *no* treatment-confounder feedback(see: https://go-bayes.github.io/b-causal/posts/confounder-treatment-feedback/conf-out-feedback.html)
The four fundamental twitter user archetypes at the moment. Much of science twitter is the lower left, a rag-tag fleet escaping to a new mythological homeworld.
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
@f2harrell has a great post on the problems with changes scores:
@yratnulov thank you for your welcome! Wonderful path you have chosen.
The ferry out to Waiheke Island makes for a great day trip.
The volcanic island #Rangitoto -- which emerged in the Auckland harbour 600 years ago is another must-see:
Hi,
I'm Joseph Bulbulia (Joe).
I teach #QuantitativePsychology at Victoria University of Wellington.
I serve on the leadership team of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study.
I supervise graduate students interested in #longitudinal methods for national-scale #paneldata.
My substantive research interests are in the psychology of religion, cultural evolution, moral psychology, well-being, and more recently #climatepsychology.
Big fan of the #potentialoutcomes framework for #causalinference.
Not a big fan of #prediction and #associations in #psychology.
I migrated to qoto.org because of its nice interface and science community.*
-- Joe
*Also, I think I can write things like
\[E(Y^1) - E(Y^0) \neq 0\]
Professor of psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, #NewZealand.
Senior Leadership Team of New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study
Likes: #paneldata, #causalinference, #running, #cats, #rstats, #quantitativepsychology
