This actually tracks quite a bit, I teach stats from a literacy and ethics perspective focused on reading tables rather than running models (at the intro level), so framing it that way really helps. Thanks!

Statistical regressions are basically kayfabe of professional wrestling. They don't offer an unquestionable natural truth. That .05 confidence level means that it's a good guess 95% of the time. In short, it's "real enough" for us to buy into it.

... Is there a better material to build a giant house that hides a dozen folks out of? Asking for a friend.

It probably still holds up.

I think the classic westerns of Elmer Kelton were serials first, they come with a lot of baggage though.

The school of theology is the modern school of theology, but certainly adjacent.

I don't know about that. "Redneck" has a strong history in organized labor, and solidarity in farms and coal mines before it gets co-opted as a term for poor southern racists. Lumping in MAGA folks seems like an erasure of that history.

This sounds like an archivist's dissertation. Manually feeding texts into a database. The labor that would be involved is spooky.

I mean...maybe, but they come from 4th generation multi-millionaires, so...

Uh... heartbreak.

Just kiss already.

Is one the 1990's Chicago car insurance advertisement legend EagleMan, or his [unspecified relationship] EagleWoman?

Gross...

A real GarageBand take. The good news is any idiot with a MacBook can make an album in their basement. The bad news is that any idiot with a MacBook can make an album in their basement.

I've started leaning into clearly stated "working" definitions informed by pertinent discussion, and stopped stressing so much about "correct" definitions. It's an elaborate scheme in soft claims, but I'm kind of a soft guy.

This is real weird. I didn't even realize people were still on team-Bezoz...