@GabrielDuquette @St_Rev Hi outlier
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@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev Bingo. c.f. reverse-causation in health vs. education level: female HS dropouts often have life-threatening illness -
@TristanSevers@St_Rev I really suspect thinness has become an increasingly strong indictor of various high-status bullshit - 1 more reply
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@GabrielDuquette@St_Rev sooo shocked I think I will have a heart attack and die from that surprise -
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@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing u r a mutant -
@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing One of life's more delicious ironies is that everyone who understands statistics is an outlier.
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@sarahdoingthing That is EXACTLY what first came to mind, I can't find graduation statistics going back before 1990 though. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Just use the confidence interval as proxy of shrinking sample size. - 1 more reply
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@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing If the dropout rate was 21% in 1990 and is 16% now (roughly what I found)... -
@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing ...then it's 'harder' to be a dropout and the group is more strongly selected for low-g/conscientiousness. - 2 more replies
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