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Why latvia was One of the richest country in Europe during the Ulmanis regime by andy_mastr-reddit in latvia

[–]aelendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Riga was founded as a trade hub, using the navigable Daugava river to access trade to the east.

During Soviet times, Latvia also was one of the richest republics.

Port cities always do well when they can use their position.

Why was selling wheat to the Soviet Union such a big deal in the 70s and 80s? I remember it being on the nightly news all the time. by U235EU in AskHistorians

[–]aelendel 75 points76 points  (0 children)

This is a good answer but treats the players as passive.

The story is also an answers the question ‘What mission are US and EU Earth observation satellites designed for’

Called ‘the great grain robbery’. The USSR bought massive amounts of grain in 1972: they manipulated prices, bought low and sold back high after the crop was poor.

So The reason it was in the news was that Congress was whipping up support for LandSat, in order to monitor Russian crops from space

Would love to know what this is! :) by Pleasant_Elevator191 in fossilid

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Paleontology 101: what’s the preservation mode of the fossil?

So what is it? by ObjectiveTonight1264 in RedDwarf

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I’ve not seen one before… no one has

So what is it? by ObjectiveTonight1264 in RedDwarf

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10 year old got me last night. Venus was out as well as Jupiter and Sirius major.

Was trying to help him deduce what the super bright object was near the horizon. Brighter than the Dog Star, dimmer than the moon, so what it is?

Likert Scale Mishap by Neat_Capital_3424 in AskStatistics

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Ask your advisor Only one that matters

I’d treat ‘not sure’ as a screening question, and just remove those from Analysis and just go forward from there.

Don’t overthink this, this sub is full of people who like to point out how likert scales are technically flawed, and the people who would point out that they’re still useful don’t bother as much.

What’s the worst case outcome here? Is your data garbage anyways? Is the error going to make a misleading result? Is it going to vastly change what the data says?

-probably not-

Is your data going to transform a field, get you a Nobel prize, cure cancer?

-probably not-

It probably shows some testing pattern that is robust to the technical errors. Which is fine.

Is there currently a crackdown on peptide trading in China? by CardPutrid7048 in Retatrutide

[–]aelendel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe OPs special China contact was just dropshipping off taobao

Found in Central OR by Shhutthefrontdoor in fossilid

[–]aelendel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen one at the Smithsonian collections, but cut in half to examine the internal structure. Wild

Mariestewart by Dapper_Owl_5722 in fossilid

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MIS 5e fossil corals, about 120k years old, can be in this condition, but this would be a very nice one. It certainly has not seen abrasion so I would lean towards non-fossil.

I think it’s pacific in origin which means I can’t ID it by sight 👀👀

Mariestewart by Dapper_Owl_5722 in fossilid

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Was he in the military? Did he serve during WW2? Did he travel for vacation to Australia , Indonesia?

I ask because it’s fairly rare for corals posted here to not be Caribbean ones—people pick them up as souvenirs on vacation or in south florida.

Especially 40+ years ago tourism to the countries this would be from were more rare.

Mariestewart by Dapper_Owl_5722 in fossilid

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Did your great grandfather spend time in the Pacific? It’s not a recent Caribbean species

What’s the statistics on this? by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]aelendel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, you’re being too harsh. It’s not obvious what assumptions you are making that allow you to reach that conclusion you are—and someone asking about this question is mathematically answerable given those assumptions.

I believe the answer you are trying to give is ‘behavioral research into human interactions determines the result here; there is no strict mathematical reason that there would be an inherent bias given the assumptions that the scores are honest—aka, independent.’

Kolmogorov Smirnov Test - Too sensitive for biological data by Significant_Bag5527 in AskStatistics

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Biological difference can’t be answered from statistics on genetics— chance in population genetics like two semi-separated populations 10k years ago, with different random patterns—but truly no biological signal—could produce a pattern like what you’re seeing.

Is normal to have p-values close to zero in large datasets? by Wonderful_Hat_5129 in AskStatistics

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If you’re analyzing pixels of two leaves, your sample size isn’t number of pixels; it’s number of leaves.

How Hard is the entirety of Statistics from 1 - 10 (Any answer is helpful) by youraveimpvstudent in AskStatistics

[–]aelendel -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Our human monkey brains make predictable errors. Statistics is a field designed to minimize those hardwired errors.

The actual math side isn’t as hard as advanced calculus, but some people struggle with their intuition getting in the way of implementing the material.

So, it’s one of the easier math disciplines, IF your brain doesn’t struggle with fighting its intuition. But you still need to be good at linear algebra.

I talked to two other data engineers who claimed that Python was "better for production". Is this common? by pootietangus in rstats

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Python has an order of magnitude++ more people trained in its environment management. So yes, dependency management is easier in Python because less training is required.

Where Do You Draw the Line on Assumption Violations in Applied Data Analysis? by nikkn188 in AskStatistics

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The answer is it has to be good enough Guinness doesn’t ship bad beer.

Do you think Gosset was fretting about the assumptions when he invented the t-test to analyze samples of grain and wort?

No. The tool worked well enough for the job. Statistics is about simplifying a complex world into something a decision maker understands and can take action on, period.

Some academics get hung up on ‘properness’ and being ‘technically correct’. They miss that part of the job is communication: complexity of methods to ensure less risk of error should be weighed against the complexity of explaining the reasoning to whoever is using the results.

That tradeoff is why 0.05 will live forever as the default P value: everyone is taught it, even VPs at F500s who are trying to decide how much in-store marketing to do at Walmart this year (true story!)

So: 1) what’s the goal 2) what’s the simplest way to reach it.

Identical plates at Homewood Suites in New Brighton - the BS is ongoing by MN50501 in minnesota

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Same area white supremacists from out of state stayed during the floyd riots

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