jonathanstray

@jonathanstray

I write for the users. Investigative reporting, teaching journalism & CS, building . Circus geek.

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    Drug price-gouger Martin Shkreli "is not the problem," James Surowiecki argues. Generic drug policy is.

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  3. Oct 8

    In which a male CEO gets unsolicited fashion advice.

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  4. Oct 8

    Statistics textbooks should be organized by problem, not by method. At least for folks not training to be statisticians, which is most folks

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    Oct 8

    teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods

    6:15 PM - 8 Oct 2015 · Details
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    Oct 8

    Fusion announces 2016 plans, reporters are on issue beats, not candidates

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  7. Oct 8

    Oooh just discovered "Crash Course Astronomy." Dozens of videos. Exoplanets, anyone?

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    responds to RAND. There is no national clinical outcome database, that's why we didn't use it.

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    Oct 8

    How we uncovered the racial disparity behind debt collection (for my fellow nerds):

    7:49 AM - 8 Oct 2015 · Details
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    Oct 8

    the biggest paycheck-cutting company, ADP, produces their own stats:

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  11. Oct 8

    . there is no centralized database of paychecks. Anyway how would you know it's accurate? Our unemployment data is from sampling

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  12. Oct 8

    Is economics research replicable? Only 49% of 59 papers could be replicated, even with help from authors

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  13. Oct 7

    142,000 jobs and forecast number of 201,000 differ by 59,000. But the margin of error on the jobs is 105,000 (90%)

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  14. Oct 6

    Another news orgs does micropayments with instant refunds, and gets only a 1% refund rate.

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  15. Oct 5

    Re the jobs numbers: calm down everyone. The margin of error on those figures is +/- 105,000

    12:38 PM - 5 Oct 2015 · Details
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    Oct 5

    There's actually a startup that is making micropayments for journalism work

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  17. Oct 4

    "A reccomendation engine is a navigational mechanism... should treat it like any other tool in your design palette"

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  18. Oct 3

    In which the NYT discusses the base rate fallacy.

    Mass murderers like the Oregon shooter seem to fit a profile — but so do thousands of others who don't kill
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    Oct 3

    The US “makes it harder for a sane working person to run their lives than for a mentally ill person to buy guns.”

    Email from a friend in response to my piece about the US's gun-control conflict ( )
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