If anyone is still following or reading @AreoMagazine and specifically @hpluckrose you might want to know that she just blocked me for politely suggesting she read a statistics paper.
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I've unblocked. I tried muting but they kept talking in my notifications and then more came until I just started blocking anyone who talked to me about statistics so I could see my notifications. I've made my account private so I shouldn't get any new ones now.
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Ah I see. There's also another easy way to prioritise notifs if you're getting too many - I use the mute notifs function from ppl I don't follow/who don't follow me when I get too many
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Oh yes, I can try that. Honestly, I was mildly interested in what they were saying about causal chains but when it turned out they meant I couldn't say women's choices have an impact on the wage gap, I had to say in that case statistics are of no use here. Cos that does matter.
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Then other statisticians came in and started telling them they were using an unfalsifiable hypothesis & being intentionally obscurantist & dishonest & also something about a false model. Well, this: https://twitter.com/prshearer/status/1001082821270622208 …
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And this. I've no idea what any of it means but it seems I have stumbled into an argument which makes statisticians very angry & I'm on the side of the ones who aren't rude to me, speak plainly & accept I can talk abt gender issues sans statistical models. https://twitter.com/prshearer/status/1001152411417874433 …
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I think it's not necessary to be knowledgeable in statistics to understand their point about this. It's basically, if we're saying the earnings gap between men and women is 0 when we look at men and women in the same jobs, hours, etc, that doesn't mean there's no discrimination
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Yes, pointed out early on that statistics were no good for discovering the causes of the imbalance and I said OK and had thread about that so but still needing to talk abt choices so doing it without statistics (tho the likelihood of my doing it with statistics was never high)
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Nobody said stats are "no good"! We said they are complicated and the simple approach you are championing is not appropriate. You then refused to engage further. This is not a pro-science stance and as the magazine champions science I thought it relevant.
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Yeah that's fine & it's your choice, but I saw the thread you guys were in and she didn't seem rude at all. Doesn't matter much, I guess, but as someone who's followed both of you, I think you two would be able to share/learn a lot with each other
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OK, as long as its not economics or statistics. You know my feelings about those. That's what I keep you lot around for.
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What are the stats on ppl unblocking others on Twitter?
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