Just a terrible headline

Headline from the Economist: Albertans find it harder than expected to break from Canada

Oh, really?

(Seriously, though, I think your explanation makes sense)

Could be! It could be that i follow a bunch of academics and so get exposed to their discourse 🤪

I'm not always a disapproving scold

I get that part. My question is about why it routinely becomes a topic of discourse here.

(I ask, as I contribute to the discourse)

This is part of it, but still:

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I still have no idea why "you're not a failure if you decide to work outside academia" is a regular discourse on here

I do not have a PhD and I approve this message

Corollary:

Some people are dumb some of the time, but not all people are dumb all of the time

*evil laugh*

Who says humans are dumb?

Obviously.

Colossal obsidian sphere in the San Francisco Bay

A big chunk of it too is that I need to better understand the structure of language

STOP THE COUNT

They're still better than Ontario

Exactly. No one wants to be Newfoundland. Not even Newfoundland wants to be Newfoundland

What about the thoughts from those of us who are less than mediocre?

I say we move clocks by a half-hour and leave it there. Bam! Everyone unhappy.*

*or not

Some great responses to this. Here's one I haven't seen yet

I am still down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out *why* they work as well as they do (I get the *how*). Like it's amazing what is accomplished with a bunch of matrix multiplication.

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That's not necessarily the fault of statistics but rather the bureaucracy it serves.

Or sometimes both.

Correct

Further reading.

arxiv.org/html/2501.03...

I think the important thing here is to stop and ask, "Is that the first thirst trap of someone reading Statistical Rethinking?"

Zapp Branigan saying, "You see, kill bots have a preset kill limit. "

Zapp Branigan saying, "Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."

I see someone has gone to the Zapp Brannigan school of strategy

Stochastic parrots is laudatory 😉

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