NYT's article on traumatic encephalopathy in football players is astonishing. Astonishingly awful, I mean. I guess that's not astonishing, it's NYT. Shameless selection bias, and no control group!pic.twitter.com/jDOGJ8D8xa
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NYT's article on traumatic encephalopathy in football players is astonishing. Astonishingly awful, I mean. I guess that's not astonishing, it's NYT. Shameless selection bias, and no control group!pic.twitter.com/jDOGJ8D8xa
And this is obnoxious sleight of hand. Population prevalence is the wrong measure (though Wernicke's may affect 2% of the population). What matters is prevalence at death. Encephalopathies develop over time! Alzheimer's ALONE is present in 6% of people over age 65.pic.twitter.com/PQGsin7DwB
This is NYT's brand. They pick something they want to destroy, then Gish-gallop it to death with flashy nonsense that sounds smart to IQ 115 mid-tier professionals. I'm not a football fan but I hate liars.
Typical of much of advocacy literature unfortunately. Except if this is a hard news story and not an editorial, it's not really supposed to be advocacy. This is one of the multitude of ways the media can be subtly (and sometimes not subtly) dishonest.
Yeah, it's not subtle. "110 positives remain significant scientific evidence..." -- no they don't! This is just a freakshow.
A good portion of my academic training is in rigorous statistics and I see these kinds of tricks all the time. The problem is it's much more difficult for the general public to detect them given how poorly probability and statistics is understood.
Yeah, I never actually took a statistics class but I've taught them.
Self taught people are often the best. I'm a software engineer now and have no formal academic credential in computer science. Passion and dedication coupled with a solid IQ and a drive to be the best I can be served me well.
My knowledge pretty much tops out at 101-level stats (I'm an algebraist by training) but that's enough to spot tons of nonsense if you're willing to spend 15 seconds checking the numbers.
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