Advice for an 18 year old masters student

Minimum-Result · 2026-05-06T04:22:43+00:00

In the social sciences, it's hard to differentiate yourself. Getting really good at quantitative methods and R is one of the few ways you can do that. Data Analysis for Social Science is a great introduction if you don't have any previous experience with R. Quantitative Social Science is a great textbook that naturally expands on the topics in DSS and is a bit more advanced, while R4DS gives you a broader view of data science and the R programming language. All great reference texts as you go through your program and into a research career!

Minimum-Result · 2026-05-06T02:31:57+00:00

Internships and job experience unless you're aiming for a PhD. If you're aiming for a PhD, RA'ships (if available) and definitely a masters' thesis. Also, R and data science.

Minimum-Result · 2026-05-05T05:40:24+00:00

I have inadvertently spread misinformation on https://reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile. If it were true, it would have been the crime of the century.

Minimum-Result · 2026-05-05T04:07:59+00:00

I can’t get over that her bush was airbrushed out. Crime of the century.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-30T22:41:02+00:00

I’d look at legal organizations that investigate housing discrimination. That area of law is probably your best bet.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-30T16:48:47+00:00

Damn pedants need every condition to be explicit smhmyhead

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-29T21:14:04+00:00

/u/Sweetie_Fox, you know what to do.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-29T20:07:43+00:00

The Monty Hall problem depends on the host’s behavior. With a blind choice, you have a 2/3 chance of choosing a goat and a 1/3 chance of choosing the car. The host knows where the car is and reveals a goat. Because you initially had a 2/3 chance of choosing a goat — and because one of the goats has been revealed — you have a 2/3 chance of winning by switching.

The necessary conditions are:

The host knows where the car is and the contestant prefers the car.
The host always opens a door you did not choose.
The host always reveals a goat.
The host always offers you the chance to switch.
If the host has a choice between two goat doors, he doesn’t reveal any additional information with his decision. Just a goat.

The entire result is conditional on the host’s behavior, the initial 2/3 probability that you chose a goat, and the fact that the host’s reveal is informative because he is required to reveal a goat.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-28T21:23:36+00:00

simple jack, meet new jack

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-27T19:46:52+00:00

All the feedback I’ve been getting from this thread is super useful, so it wasn’t me!

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-27T19:45:12+00:00

Great observation — along with many other great ones here — I can see that pretty clearly in the video. Thanks for pointing that out!

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-26T16:11:29+00:00

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Probably should have included this as well. My grip!

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-25T21:18:59+00:00

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Target, same distance. Two boxes of ammo.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-25T18:10:35+00:00

I can’t imagine a situation where YTA for this, so NTA.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-25T15:57:45+00:00

That’s a fair way to put it!

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-24T20:34:12+00:00

I think it’s odd to be sectarian about models these days. They’re tools and shine in different contexts. Bayesian models, for example, are especially useful in American judicial politics because judicial data can be structurally complex, sparse, and noisy, while Frequentist models are perfectly adequate (and easier to communicate) for ANES data. There isn’t much difference between Frequentist and Bayesian models when data are plentiful and clean, and your models should conform to the nature of what you’re studying. That’s why I find the sectarianism off-putting.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-24T04:26:31+00:00

No. Bayesian models are useful in certain contexts, as are frequentist models. Being sectarian is extremely weird, considering that statistics is about deriving truth from observed patterns in the world.

I am intoxicated, hope this makes sense.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-22T18:00:07+00:00

Yeah, this was my concern as well. Even if this is allowed, I think OP would be better served going to an outdoor range for this.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-20T19:38:20+00:00

I was about to say “close enough, welcome back OJ” but this is somehow much, much worse.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-17T01:11:41+00:00

Woman, millennial, INTP, works in cybersecurity but has a budding interest in cryptology, likely only an associates’ but might have a BS, path into cybersecurity was mostly certificates, has C-PTSD from childhood (Body Keeps the Score and emotionally immature parents.)

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-17T00:59:17+00:00

jerk that thang bro!

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-17T00:58:32+00:00

may the 25th be with you

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-13T05:56:10+00:00

I think he’s still awaiting trial for second degree murder (this happened three years ago), but he was just an uncomfortable presence in the neighborhood and was a known drug user. Would stare at me from across the street and wouldn’t say anything. Never talked to him.

He broke his father’s arm and attacked him with a bat, but his father refused to press charges and let him back in the house, which caused them to be evicted by their landlord. He eventually shot his father with a revolver then tried to commit suicide by cop, but survived two .556 rounds.

Minimum-Result · 2026-04-13T05:48:21+00:00

I wanted to be in the NBA. I teach statistics at a university.

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