"look at this 0.2 sigma diff! ignore the fact that there's a 2 sigma difference with genpop tho lol" this woman has done more damage to data science than almost anyone that's not a fascist leader
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literally talked about the big diff from population in the next tweets, you're deliberately ignoring context so you can make fun of me. this is bad and you should feel bad.
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Sometimes it seems like people really just want to shoot the messenger.
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The messenger of "This is a meaningful difference!!!" when everyone who has even the most basic statistics knowledge can say at a glance that's not true
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basic stats knowledge would know that a sample of 500k is hugely significant, the gap is small but absolutely not there by chance
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sorry, I keep forgetting the actual iq sample for this q is closer to 50k; still a massive sample.
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