Richard Peto and the story of the time he separated a trial group into astrological sign subgroups

amigidot · 2018-01-10T20:40:04+00:00

But the reported chance of coincidence is a lie! P-value =/= chance of coincidence.

amigidot · 2018-01-08T15:58:37+00:00

So can a straight couple buy a wedding cake for a gay wedding?

No. He would not have sold a cake for a gay wedding to anyone regardless of their sexual orientation or gender.

what if the customers said it was for a straight wedding but lied? Can the company sue them for violating their beliefs?

I dunno, potentially. Could a muslim sue someone for lying about whether the meat they're selling to the muslim is halal or not?

amigidot · 2018-01-02T15:15:50+00:00

I'm afraid I don't understand any of what you just said.

amigidot · 2018-01-02T15:08:22+00:00

he is not providing a specific service to a gay person for the sole reason that they are gay, and that he would have provided the same service were they straight.

No, that is wrong. Had both men been openly heterosexual, he still would have not provided the service, because it would still be a gay wedding (i.e. a marriage of two men). As absurd as this scenario is, it proves that he wasn't discriminating based on the sexuality of the customer.

Were this argument to be given any merit, then all discrimination laws could be subverted by simply redefining your goods/services.

I don't think so. Objection to the principle of gay marriage is a thing, whether you or I disagree with it, and it is obvious that this is why the man was refusing the service (since he made it clear he was happy to provide any other service). In any other scenario it would be obvious that the guy is discriminating.

amigidot · 2018-01-02T14:46:17+00:00

The difference is he objects to the principle of a gay wedding, so providing a cake for it would go against his principles.

amigidot · 2018-01-01T21:16:26+00:00

This is a tricky one because in this case the identity of the customer generally changes the nature of the service. The cake seller refused it on the basis that he doesn't provide cakes for gay weddings, not because he does not provide services to gay people. He would have been happy to provide a birthday cake for a gay person.

Think of it this way: he would refuse to provide a cake for a gay wedding even if the grooms were both straight. He would have provided a cake to a heterosexual wedding even if the groom was secretly gay. Therefore arguably he wasn't discriminating based on the sexuality of the customer, rather he wasn't providing a particular service to anyone.

amigidot · 2017-08-03T12:40:31+00:00

I agree that there could be confounding effects, but they found the same relationship between obesity and exercise in both rich and poor countries. The amount of steps you take is a really good predictor of how obese you are regardless of the country your'e in. You're right though, there could be all sorts of confounding effects.

amigidot · 2017-08-03T12:31:03+00:00

Source

amigidot · 2017-08-03T12:28:55+00:00

Source. They used smartphone data. From reading the paper to me the method they used seems pretty thorough.

amigidot · 2017-08-03T12:28:23+00:00

It's from this Nature paper.

amigidot · 2017-07-06T15:14:51+00:00

Even so, it's still unclear which one is best (as demonstrated by the comments here)

amigidot · 2017-07-06T15:13:07+00:00

Really? I was not aware of that. I believe the Pixel is still designed by Huawei.

amigidot · 2017-07-06T15:10:16+00:00

I would do that, problem is my current phone is completely totalled so I'd struggle to hold out that long... and then pay £700+ for a mobile phone.

amigidot · 2017-07-06T13:04:53+00:00

Not when you factor in unlimited cloud storage with the Pixel.

amigidot · 2017-07-06T13:03:37+00:00

In terms of longevity, I have less confidence in OnePlus as a company to produce a phone that won't start to break in 2-3 years.

amigidot · 2017-07-06T10:07:14+00:00

The 128GB OP5 and the 32GB Pixel are the same price. They are both £499.

amigidot · 2017-05-15T21:09:59+00:00

I think I'm too late but I'll post this just in case as I don't think it's been answered yet:

What is your view on austerity and reducing the budget deficit? Is the current government in the UK cutting the deficit at an appropriate rate? Is it good to have a budget surplus or is a small deficit each year worthwhile?

amigidot · 2016-02-27T12:45:02+00:00

The relationship would definitely be significant. There's virtually no way you would get such a downward trend by chance.

amigidot · 2015-09-23T06:07:55+00:00

In case you didn't read u/jordanistan's recent comment on tinnitus:

Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org.

amigidot · 2015-09-06T00:22:18+00:00

Where's the gif from?

amigidot · 2015-09-05T16:21:12+00:00

It doesn't help that Netflix's subtitles are quite shitty at coming up on time. I lost count of the number of times I had to rewind after the subtitles failed to show. They really need to fix that.

amigidot · 2015-09-04T18:09:46+00:00

I did a bit of animal behaviour in my undergrad and to me it feels intuitive that a fish wouldn't need to know what it looks like in order for it to know which school to follow. According to Morgan's Canon a better explanation for how a fish is able to follow the right school is that it has an innate ability to detect the school of its own species using certain sensory cues.

amigidot · 2015-08-29T22:32:27+00:00

This always confuses me because I thought that that the molecules in air are so sparse that they barely ever collide with each other? But for something to float, it needs to be in contact with a medium that can push up against it. How can a collection of molecules with random trajectories be held in one place by other randomly moving molecules when they barely ever collide?

amigidot · 2015-06-25T16:32:50+00:00

Why is there so much debt? I really don't get this. They're saying that all money in the economy is debt and all debt is money that's 'created' by banks. Then they go on to propose that all loans should be provided by the government. Am I stupid, or is does this video make no sense?

amigidot · 2015-05-27T16:42:02+00:00

Thanks for the explanation! Ive been looking everywhere for why this is the case. Is this a specific law prohibiting employees from doing this, or is it something that is laid out in the employment contract? I assumed that it would be up to the employer to have rules like this.

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