Comments on: Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞) http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: rrp http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-24689 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 03:29:43 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-24689 oh man this is cool. For some reason it’s natural to me to look at other, similar things for an estimate of the mean given the null hypothesis, but getting an estimate of the variability, showing that a particular kind of statistic is a “volatile thing”, that’s something I never did before, or never noticed.

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]]> By: Dave http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-21285 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:18:12 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-21285 But I’m not sure it’s many more than one.

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]]> By: Jeff http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20981 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 05:13:18 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20981 Taking 2nd or higher derivatives of discrete numbers usually produces too much noise to be useful.

The right way to do this is to develop a model for a typical progression in sexual assault crime. A simple model, for example, might be to do a quadratic fit over a ten year period. Then subtract the model from each datapoint to create residuals. The residual data should be evenly and randomly distributed around zero (except for, perhaps, the poster year). Then we compare the variation in the residuals to the residual of the poster year and check for statistical significance.

But the biggest problem is that nine data points probably aren’t enough either way.

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]]> By: Roxolan http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20942 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:34:50 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20942 Same in Belgium. The Bob campaign against drunk driving (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_campaign) changed public opinion and behavior, raised social status of designated drivers, and even created a word/meme for designated driver (“Bob”) that caught on.

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]]> By: Earnest_Peer http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20870 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:48:36 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20870 I thought I might supplement your post with some actual examples of feminist writing:
Pro “rapists aren’t monsters, at least not openly”: http://pervocracy.blogspot.de/2011/11/slavering-beast-theory.html
and Contra “they don’t even know what they’re doing is wrong”: http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/mythcommunication-its-not-that-they-dont-understand-they-just-dont-like-the-answer/

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]]> By: Atreic http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20651 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:15:06 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20651 Oh, I came here to make this comment, (particularly about drink driving and seatbelts in the UK) and you’d made it already :-)

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]]> By: Link blog: work, interviewing, productivity, business | Name and Nature http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20592 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:16:40 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20592 […] Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞) | Slate Star Codex […]

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]]> By: MugaSofer http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20558 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:55:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20558 *shrugs* I never said it was a particularly *sane* staple of Reactionary thought.

(Scott had a great analysis o his old blog, of the different types of “power” involved here and how Reactionaries keep switching between them to make their point, but I can’t seem to find it again.)

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]]> By: Nick T http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20505 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 04:09:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20505 As Ozy says, it’s not plausible that minorities are the ruling class, and intelligent reactionaries wouldn’t say they are; they would say that they’re clients of the progressive ruling class. (I would say that “the” ruling class, singular with no further context, is an anti-useful concept. Different kinds of power are differently concentrated.)

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]]> By: Brian http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/08/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-4-of-%e2%88%9e/#comment-20489 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:31:24 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1104#comment-20489 That is, being able to generate visible symbols of political organization and involvement doesn’t necessarily imply any significant degree of political power.

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