Stephen Wild

You're asking Bluesky, so the suscribers here are doing it to hate read his posts

From what I read it seems like he just kinda kept working at it, but also dealt in good faith with the critics

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😏

Or rather that conciousness originated in language and culture

I came to him through Dennet, who thought that a lot of the theory was nuts, but that there might be something to the underlying idea that the origin of language and conciousness were linked

Anyway

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It's a theory so bonkers I kinda want it to be true

Based on the other slides in the deck I think they took mean of the country-level results. But the language is ambiguous enough that they also could have done it the way you are proposing here.

Best guess is that they didn't understand what it meant (if it was read at all). It took me a few reads of the note and results to figure out what they did, and even then I still think the language is ambiguous.

Happy birthday!

Here's the average. But also you should not interpret this average.

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Should you control for smoking when estimating the causal effect of HIV -> Stroke?

Why or why not?

Stephen Lang and Laurence Fishburne?!?

Be still my heart

And Luis Guzman and William Forsythe!

Now that I'm older, it's a wee bit problematic that "The Substitute" is about a a middle-aged white mercenary killing a bunch of primarily Latino teenagers.

The 90s were wild.

"Sniper" and "The Substitute" used to be on TV all the time when I was a kid.

Berenger hasn't really done anything worthwhile since the mid 90s. And yet here we are

Still image of "The Sheriff" staring Tom Berenger

I am starting to think the trend of old man action movies was a mistake. I blame Liam Neeson.

You missed quantile() of Solace 😭

New paper in press at Biometrics by PhD Candidate Esteban Fernández-Morales

1) Develops Bayesian spike & slab and horseshoe models for causal inference under spatial spillover

2) Analyzes Philly's 2017 beverage tax accounting for cross-border shopping

arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08231

a cartoon of a man in a tuxedo saying " just hook it to my veins " Alt: Barney Gumble in a tuxedo saying "just hook it to my veins"

Spatial spillover you say?

JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS

Yes?

What is it like to be a newly free horse

Why shouldn't we blame Julia?

Congrats!

Julia started it

Rt, apparently 🙄

You know what I'm gonna give this one to her. 10/10

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