I’m disappointed that I never got a set of these when I left the house!

I’ll preorder the coffee table book

I tried to add to your total but was already following you!

Do not confuse "interesting thoughts about art" for ironclad instructions about how to make art.

Wait until we tell them about the benefits of a third stent

I think they turned it into a movie later, Regression Runner

That’s also why I like target trial emulation- it helps identify study design decisions that would have been clearly weird or impossible in an RCT (“we’ll enroll people today and start them on treatment sometime in the past six months!”) but sometimes happen anyways in observational studies

But also this :-)

Love it, but more importantly strong choice of colors.

I'd add a line between Asthma and death too, but the measured relationship is being distorted by the open path via the "Pneumonia and hospitalized" since they're conditioning on it

Conditioning on hospitalization for pneumonia induces a false (inverse) association between asthma and other severe risk factors/complications that get you admitted with pneumonia and makes it look like pneumonia patients do well.

Their inclusion criteria included both pneumonia and hospitalization, so that's the 'selection node' or 'collider' (the box at the top). Asthma is one reason for hospitalization with pneumonia (e.g., it's a risk factor for poorer outcomes, so the ED might admit). Septic shock is another.

Oooh, I’m going to use that with my 4 year old- “I need to see more efficacy data before I keep doing that”

Orange chicken 😢