The problem with this, apart from trying to stop people voting not being a great look, is that if you signal that the convenient ways of voting are bad, your signal is much more strongly heard and be… (View Post)

I guess it might also be journalistic convention. All stories are required to follow a conceptual template, and they only have templates for "nail-biting photo finish" or "foregone con… (View Post)

IDK, the dude is literally staring at a prediction saying there's a 25% chance. If he ever rolled a dice and got a 6 he must have been like "hmm, this dice seems to be broken, the laws of p… (View Post)

While we're doing random covid posts, a really nice simple suggestion in this paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/effects-of-ventilation-on-the-indo… (View Post)

It's just an astonishing feat of obtuseness. How can you not learn? 1) October, 2016: See the models showing a 25% probability, write articles as if this means "basically impossible" 2… (View Post)