The role of prior infection in the vaccine trials
Kaiser reviews a finding from the J&J vaccine trial about immunity from infection.
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Why you must know how analytical results were obtained
Kaiser learns that MTA developed a 90% effective vaccine to cure fare evasion on city buses. They just need to go on CNN to sell this miracle.
The difference between prediction and estimation
Kaiser reacts to an Efron paper on statistical vs. machine learning models.
Know your data 33: oops the dog did it
Kaiser reads Twitter's admission of misleading users on two-factor authentication.
Are 81 percent of Elon Musk's twitter followers fake?
Kaiser reads an estimate of Musk's spam proportion.
The Musk sampling plan, thought through
Kaiser examines Elon Musk's plan to find out what proportion of twitter users are spam.