Take for example our earlier exchange, there’s nothing new under the sun, so it wouldn’t surprise me if you already knew the approach.. but even if so, there’s always the knowing-doing gap! Context is necessary, but not sufficient
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Exactly! Also, I *asked* and it’s not my field. Even if I did know, that convo is useful and what I was hoping for.
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Oh I'm glad you added that last parenthetical, because I am not always strong enough to hold me tongue when people who know I'm a statistcian try to tell me that I don't know statstics

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I've told the story on here before of my friends boyfriend trying to explain to me that I DONT UNDERSTAND STANDARD DEVIATIONS and that's why he and I were disagreeing about something.pic.twitter.com/HSmfwPdpeG
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Really. It costs you nothing to pretend someone who is trying to help you has given new information, even if they haven't.
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Yes, I know that already. It doesn't stop me from doing it though! (Seriously, I hope I don't do that much, but I realize thanks to your tweet I do it when my wife nags me about something, and I should stop. Maybe a cheerful Yup! instead?)
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