Episode 79: Cancer rates
Listen now | Next week: Taurus rates
Just finished listening to this great episode by @stuartjritchie.bsky.social and @tomchivers.bsky.social on whether early-onset cancer rates are really up.
Can highly recommend—it’s not only a relevant topic, but also a great exercise in the care that’s needed when somebody gives you a number.
24.07.2025 04:25
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Editorial, Economic and Societal Impacts
Dublin, IE | London, UK
Huge job here for someone - Anthropic is hiring an econ-focused writer to work on @stuartjritchie.bsky.social's team
boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
01.03.2025 14:37
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Should’ve used Claude!
14.12.2024 21:47
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Wow! I think 2005 for me. I bought a branded dinner tray from the merchandise stall.
04.12.2024 08:58
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It’s one of the best songs ever and I strongly recommend it to you! Tom wouldn’t understand because it doesn’t have any rap-metal in it.
04.12.2024 08:51
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It’s an R.E.M. lyric!!! From New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
04.12.2024 08:41
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04.12.2024 08:36
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The unnerving nature of collider bias
Not for the first time, I was inspired by listening to the excellent The Studies Show podcast . In their 26 November edition, Tom Chivers an...
How the excellent The Studies Show podcast ( @tomchivers.bsky.social and @stuartjritchie.bsky.social ) surprised me by introducing me to the fiendish collider bias: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-... #Statistics #badcorrelations
03.12.2024 09:29
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An ENTIRE podcast on collider bias 🤓🎉 - love it!
Here is our take for gene x evironment studies!
Can’t wait to listen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
28.11.2024 03:34
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In response to the final few seconds in this podcast, that CB is something to be aware of but really hard to actually DO anything about. Here’s our suggestions in the genetic epidemiology context: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
28.11.2024 10:58
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Indeed, great episode by @tomchivers.bsky.social & @stuartjritchie.bsky.social on collider bias
& for criminologists worth checking this research note
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
28.11.2024 21:58
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Wow! Obviously I find that upsetting because Tom wrote it, but nevertheless…
29.11.2024 14:08
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Episode 57: Collider bias
Listen now | Does smoking prevent COVID? Is being obese actually healthy? Or is something funny going on?
Some said it couldn’t be done. That it was impossible; ridiculous; absurd. But @tomchivers.bsky.social and I have done it: recorded a whole podcast episode about collider bias. www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-57...
26.11.2024 20:15
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27.11.2024 08:13
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26.11.2024 23:37
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Episode 57: Collider bias
Listen now | Does smoking prevent COVID? Is being obese actually healthy? Or is something funny going on?
Some said it couldn’t be done. That it was impossible; ridiculous; absurd. But @tomchivers.bsky.social and I have done it: recorded a whole podcast episode about collider bias. www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-57...
26.11.2024 20:15
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Episode 57: Collider bias
Listen now | Does smoking prevent COVID? Is being obese actually healthy? Or is something funny going on?
The latest The Studies Show is in your inboxes! On a strange statistical anomaly that can make it seem like smoking protects you from COVID and obesity is good for your heart www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-57...
26.11.2024 09:01
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Thanks mate!
24.11.2024 14:13
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You honour me.
24.11.2024 14:08
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Gen Z boss and a mini,
Gen Z boss and a mini
(Am I doing this right?)
23.11.2024 16:31
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We going to need a bigger Bazooka
How Labour can get the economy growing
When John Kingman - who has done more to drive good policy on UK economic growth than anyone - gives advice, I really hope people listen.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
23.11.2024 10:23
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Dismayed to come to a different platform and find this guy is still tweeting about me all the time. I even pre-emptively blocked him!
23.11.2024 07:57
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This plus the added push factor of Elon Musk; and the election marking a clear point after which a lot of people thought “enough is enough”. That’s my guess- though it might also be just pure luck.
22.11.2024 22:38
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The Economist claims many UK and US (not shown) masters degrees have negative financial returns (especially for men) by the age of 35
www.economist.com/leaders/2024...
22.11.2024 11:44
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22.11.2024 17:02
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I spent maybe 3 years of high school completely in love with him, and I’ve had a very soft spot for him ever since…
22.11.2024 16:26
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He hasn’t even read the book.
22.11.2024 13:19
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I just tend to reserve the nastiness for research that’s bad—rather than research I agree with and which is obviously attempting to make other research less bad as well.
22.11.2024 13:08
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