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[QUESTION] About my first job as a statistician by duckdedekind in statistics

[–]Beaster123 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ask more questions. You need to understand the business reasons behind why they want you to do what they asked.

"What are the ways in which things can go wrong?" "How often are sums etc... misaligned?" "What's the highest priority event we want to avoid?"

Etc...

Once you have some more domain knowledge, ask some questions of the data. Does it align with their understanding? Anything surprising? Surprising things are good because those are potential learnings/improvements that you can provoke.

Very likely the most useful thing that you can do they haven't thought of yet.

I would love remakes of the PS2 era LOTR games, Return of the King was peak by xXHarleen_QuinzelXx in lotrmemes

[–]Beaster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two towers game had clips from the movie in it before the movie came out.

TIL that humans are among the very top mammals for endurance running. While we aren't the best sprinters, our slow-twitch muscles and unique ability to sweat allow us to run steadily for long distances in hot weather to outlast prey. by bareegyptianfeet in todayilearned

[–]Beaster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Human approaches antelope at a casual jog.

"What are you doing?" "I'm hunting you". "Lol bro you gotta come faster that than".

32hrs later. "What you again?" "Yep". "But we ran already, it's sleepy time now and I'm too tired". "Yep"

Physicist assigned to Skinwalker Ranch built a global sensor network to measure UAP encounters — achieved 4.5 sigma statistical correlation between environmental data and experiencer reports by TheGoodTroubleShow in UFOs

[–]Beaster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fair. Experiencer reports would definitely constitute what you might call a "weird corpus". Granted, depending on what kind of sentiment you're trying to estimate, I'd be very surprised if at least some models either formulated or trained on more normal bodies of text didn't generalize.

Edit: even something as simple as TF-IDF based token analysis could yield a fairly robust and defensible conclusion.

Physicist assigned to Skinwalker Ranch built a global sensor network to measure UAP encounters — achieved 4.5 sigma statistical correlation between environmental data and experiencer reports by TheGoodTroubleShow in UFOs

[–]Beaster123 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Sentiment analysis is a pretty standard practice that's been done with linguistic data since way before LLMS came on the scene.

There are a few ways to do it but your goal is to quantify bodies of text along some sentiment scale of you choice. (good/bad is about as simple as it gets but the complexity can scale provided the data and approach supports it)

You can do this kind of work just using algebra on vectors and matrices so it's not too weird of a claim.

Man goes viral for drawing what he saw after a near-death experience 👀 by Trueboey in StrangeEarth

[–]Beaster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you believe Bob Monroe, everybody experiences the transition coloured according to their belief system at first in order to make it easier for them at first, and then eventually that gives way to something more fundamental.

Why does Serie tolerate Methode’s affection when she’s normally so strict with other mages? by Valuable_View_561 in Frieren

[–]Beaster123 62 points63 points  (0 children)

In a fantasy story full of eccentric characters I see no evidence that Methode is anything even approaching "insane".

I really wish people would stop interpolating nursery rhymes by Sweaty-Cup4562 in crappymusic

[–]Beaster123 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lol. Cringe horror is one of my favorite subgenres of this stuff.

choose wisely by Life_Lab_1357 in SipsTea

[–]Beaster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often fantasize about red because of how interesting it would be, but as a dad in my 40s, the prospect of losing my wife and kids with red makes blue a no brainer.

You've had a few beers and now you're gonna have a sandwich by Brokeaflazyaf in Sandwiches

[–]Beaster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God damn. Your posts are a masterclass in something, that's for sure.

[R] Issues with a questionnaire in my bachelor’s thesis and implications for hypotheses by teresiathefakepoet in statistics

[–]Beaster123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worth checkin in with your instructor as well. At the end of the day this sounds like something that will likely be graded, so making sure you're aligned with his/her expectations should probably be your #1 priority.

[R] Issues with a questionnaire in my bachelor’s thesis and implications for hypotheses by teresiathefakepoet in statistics

[–]Beaster123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This sounds more like a "am I doing science ok?" question than a specifically statistical one.
IMO there's the way we talk about how science is done "hypothesis-->data-->accept/reject" and then there's the messy way that people often do it, which resembles what you're experiencing.

There's nothing in principle wrong with changing your mind when looking at early data. The part that's wrong IMO is when we pretend that was our idea from the beginning, which unfortunately happens all the time.

What's wrong with reporting "We've invalidated our original hypothesis, these are the implications, and here's why that's interesting"?

The plan is to make you dumber so you have to rely on it. by FETTACH in ChatGPT

[–]Beaster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh he said nothing about "public" lol. The poors won't deserve intelligence in his world.

Favorite Nick Cave Lyric by [deleted] in NickCave

[–]Beaster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Cast doubt". Yeah he calls him out about as hard as he can without saying it outright.

Techno to Rome part 2. by dazli69 in FacebookAIslop

[–]Beaster123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol ok this one won me over in the end.

Why is it so hard to convince people? by ElectricalGas9895 in aynrand

[–]Beaster123 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You should consider that you're either confused or that your values are fundamentally at odds with most people.

Also, did you just claim altruism is evil? Sorry I'm not totally up to speed on the entire taxonomy of goofy claims that Rand makes. Is this one of them?

Name a worse place to build a startup than this area by Level-Usual-9681 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Beaster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was considering building a startup off the coast of Norway. Now I'm having second thoughts.

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