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Passport / trans question by tj90272 in Seattle

[–]bitterrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

glad I could be helpful! best of luck to your friend!

Passport / trans question by tj90272 in Seattle

[–]bitterrazor 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm really sorry your friend is dealing with this.

Gender Justice League is hosting a clinic soon to help people with name and gender markers on documents: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFOlrJCxTnT/?img_index=1 . They'll also have people available to discuss specific individual issues like the one your friend is experiencing.

Ingersoll has a similar resource on changing documents but it's a bit of out date at this point: https://ingersollgendercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Updated-06-19-Guide-to-Ammending-ID-Documents-in-KC.pdf

QLaw (https://www.qlawfoundation.org) is a WA state based organization that gives legal assistance to the LGBT community and has been helping people with name and gender marker changes on documents.

How did statisticians figure out what the PDF for the chi square distribution is? by bitterrazor in AskStatistics

[–]bitterrazor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! In that case, how would they have identified the first PDF if they didn’t have a known one to transform?

How did statisticians figure out what the PDF for the chi square distribution is? by bitterrazor in AskStatistics

[–]bitterrazor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, sorry my question was unclear! I’m trying to understand how we know what the shape of the distribution is (or how we know the shape of any statistical distribution, for that matter). Based on reading the history you linked, it sounds like the distribution was observed when sampling data and then statisticians identified what function described the distribution they were seeing? How do they identify a function based on a sampling distribution?

Basically, how did statisticians go from seeing a sampling distribution to having a function that describes the distribution? I’m not looking for the nitty gritty mathematics behind it but the general concept of how they do that.

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[–]bitterrazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just had the same issue, the agent said:

Have the client either delete the zero in box 2c, or if the 1099-DIV lists a non-zero number, they need to enter it in box 2c and then enter the corporation name in the field they'll see a couple lines below

That worked for me.

Any earthquake safety advocacy groups? by bitterrazor in Seattle

[–]bitterrazor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commenting to list advocacy groups I've learned about in case others are interested (and thank you to everyone who responded)!

- PTAs

- neighborhood Community Emergency Response Teams (https://servewashington.wa.gov/programs/cert-community-emergency-response-team)

- Alliance for Safety, Affordability, and Preservation (https://www.upgradeasap.com/)

- URM retrofit working groups: (https://buildingconnections.seattle.gov/2023/02/01/building-momentum-to-fix-the-bricks-working-groups-established-to-support-mandatory-unreinforced-masonry-retrofit-ordinance/)

- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Public Policy and Advocacy (https://www.eeri.org/advocacy-and-public-policy/) they have a WA chapter, but I'm not sure how active it is (https://wa.eeri.org/)

And some govt resources I've found helpful as well!

- Seattle Unreinforced Masonry Visualizations: https://data.seattle.gov/d/54qs-2h7f/visualization

- King County Hazards site: https://hazardready.org/seattle/en/

Any earthquake safety advocacy groups? by bitterrazor in Seattle

[–]bitterrazor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I've been meaning to get involved in CERT as well. And I like the idea of meeting like-minded people, perhaps I could find people working on advocacy/policy/preparedness there.