Yes, definitely -- there would have been a concern about letting random members of the public interpret their own tests. I wrote about this in 2021
www.statschat.org.nz/2021/12/22/t...
But the lack of any existing approval process could easily have contributed
More on topic
There is a story of a compiler called SAVE, not as an acronym or classical allusion or anything, but because card decks labelled SAVE were less likely to get moved or scrambled or lost.
I call them "spamwalls"
As I have been saying sporadically for years and more often in the past year: the President absolutely could pervert the BLS numbers, but he couldn't do it secretly.
Given how badly Labour is doing in England it's no wonder he prefers UK polls
This may help explain why retail Covid tests were initially completely banned: letting them follow established approval processes, as many countries did, wasn't an option.
"There is no approval system for medical devices under the Medicines Act 1981. There is no mandatory requirement for medical devices to be approved by any medical device regulator prior to being supplied in New Zealand." --Medsafe
A group of four students in white lab coats studying plants
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Daniel Craig introducting The Weekend on SNL, with the text: E rangatira mΔ... te mutunga wiki
"According to a study in PubMed" is a bit of a red flag
Hereβs a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my βData Visualization: A Practical Introductionβ: socviz.co
They did get extremely similar answers for "A husband should have the final word on important decisions made in his home", which shouldn't have quite the same wedding-vow bias
Only if they go badly for the Republicans
Not the one assigned Erik at birth, or the one assigned Jacob at birth, or the one assigned Henry at birth?
I find the blog post and underlying post very useful.
βHow realistic is it to expect multiverse to be used widely, given that most authors first and foremost want to convince readers they have a clear point?β
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@labeler.urbanism.plus label
March madness
Newsroom has a long piece on traffic congestion in Auckland in March. Near the beginning, Douglas Wilson, from the Transport Research Centre at the Uni of Auckland says βSo suddenly people say, βWow, itβs taking me double the travel time to get to work. Why is that the case?β Itβsβ¦
Roads are clogged, buses are jammed: the chaos of March is so predictable that it has a nickname β but it doesnβt have to be this way.
Very disappointed to see that the Education & Workforce Select Committee has recommended banning people under 16 from using social media websites such as Facebook, Instagream, Snapchat, TikTok, X and more. selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/e05a9618...
It's a different photo from the one Reddit had
Download advice on feeding newborns to teens
Reminds me of Swiftβs Modest Proposal.
That sounds like tidyverse, then.
(If you just mean data management and workflow programming then tidyverse is fine)
For data analysis code I'd support tidyverse first.
For statistical programming I'd be less happy -- you have to learn quasiquotation early, and it makes debugging harder. Introducing {{}} helped, but I'm not sure it did enough. Also, matrices and other things that aren't data frames get in the way
The big online harm SC inquiry report is out. As expected it recommends an under-16 ban. It also suggests a new regulator explore banning VPNsβ¦
Greens and ACT both very against that and caution against the social media ban.
Or employ people who rent
If the image for a website migration program is sandhill cranes in flight, does that mean we're moving to a North American provider?
