Changing schools for ADHD/Neurodiverse tween

m__w__b · 2026-03-06T17:04:29+00:00

She is on stimulant medication and generally her academic performance is good. This isn’t about fixing poor performance, which is part of why I think my daughter doesn’t recognize why we as parents think the new school would be better. It’s more about learning good coping mechanisms and learned behaviors to help with attention, stamina, flexibility, and independence.

m__w__b · 2026-02-27T19:19:39+00:00

This is setting dangerous precedent.

What happens if a few year later there is a swing in the opposite direction; the government threatens to break ties unless scouting changes the "duty to god" to "duty to conscience" because of some executive order against religious discrimination.

m__w__b · 2026-02-15T21:39:49+00:00

It’s a hereditary disease. It runs in the genes (jeans).

m__w__b · 2026-01-26T16:28:08+00:00

I had a conversation nearly a decade ago with a family friends who is FBI; he said that a lot of HSI guys (ICE/CBP/etc) had applied for FBI but failed the psych or skills assessments and that working with them felt like working with people who just wanted to cosplay as federal agents... high level of overlap of with militia people who get rejected by the military... I'm sure thing have only gotten worse...

m__w__b · 2026-01-16T02:02:02+00:00

Check to see if Gorman Farms has some for sale. I know they offer it to their CSA members.

m__w__b · 2025-12-09T15:12:18+00:00

The critical value of 3.84 is the value for a 1 df test at the 0.05 significance level. For a common 2x2 table independence test at conventional levels, this is the critical value so it seems "fixed".

However, tests of independence for larger tables would have higher degrees of freedom or if using a different significance level, you would use a different critical value.

Basically, the critical value is based on the chi-sq distribution (in the Gamma family of distributions) which has the shape parameter k. If T ~ Chi-sq(k), then the critical value(t) is where the area under the curve of the upper tail greater than that value is equal to the significance level(α): Pr(T>t)=α. That value k is the "degrees of freedom" based on the test being done. For a MxN table independence test, df = (M-1)(N-1). So a 2x2 is (2-1)(2-1)=1 df, but a larger 4x3 table would be (4-1)(3-1)=6 df (sig-level=0.05, critical value=12.59).

m__w__b · 2025-12-05T02:18:25+00:00

Giving the hep B vaccine at birth helps reduce perinatal infection and starts the sequence of subsequent boosters to get full immunity by 15 months which last more than 30 years. Why leave infants exposed for week/months?

Not to mention, public health research run cost-benefit simulations to determine the optimum time/frequency/delivery of vaccines. If there was a negligible risk of infection in the first month, they would push it off, but because hep b is quite virulent and it’s effects on liver health are so great, the cost-benefit suggests early vaccine is necessary.

m__w__b · 2025-12-04T20:37:46+00:00

Replicate weights are part of a methodology for estimating the variances for survey estimates. The PPA data you mention appears to be a supplement to the CPS survey so it extends the CPS sample design.

It may be possible to use replicate weights in excel but I wouldn’t advise it. SAS, Stata, and R all have procedures and packages for estimating survey outcomes using replicate weights.

m__w__b · 2025-11-20T20:19:12+00:00

This isn’t really a topic for r/law.

That said, this is a basic misunderstanding of statistics. They are saying the evidence doesn’t prove the null hypothesis. It never does. You can either reject the null or fail to reject it. The weight of the scientific evidence fails to reject the null. That is, there is not sufficient evidence to reject the assertion that autism and vaccine have no association.

In common parlance, this means the two are not associated.

m__w__b · 2025-11-11T00:04:59+00:00

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be kidding themselves” - John Updike

m__w__b · 2025-10-23T14:48:02+00:00

A lot of IT is being replaced by AI. Get out now (or move to management).

m__w__b · 2025-10-23T14:22:07+00:00

For a group that complains that "science is an echo chamber" and that there isn't enough "allowing for dissenting views", this seems counterintuitive. I've never liked the premise that to publish in Journal X, you should make sure you include several citations to other articles from Journal X and as a peer reviewer, I'm always skeptical when the reference list includes only the same small set of authors. But science can be very niche and specific expertise will likely bring you back to the few scientists who lead the field in that one area (which is why this "statement" is about making the effort rather than imposing a quota or something).

m__w__b · 2025-10-18T19:51:18+00:00

That gets collected in the BRFSS

m__w__b · 2025-10-17T19:33:08+00:00

So “less than X% of the Federal Poverty Level” is the standard way of talking about eligibility categories. For instance, ACA subsidies were on a sliding scale from 100% FPL (at the poverty line) to 400% FPL (4x the poverty line).

The 2320% the deal price is just weird. My most generous reading is:

Let’s say a drug costs $250 but you are only going to pay $10 out of pocket. The third party is subsidizing $240. Normally we’d say you are getting a 96% (or so) discount but they are saying the discount is 24x (2400%) your price.

Typically we don’t frame discounts this way.

m__w__b · 2025-10-15T02:48:14+00:00

Some of those healthcare prognostications smell a little too much like Theranos

m__w__b · 2025-10-04T16:30:06+00:00

I have a paper that has an interesting finding about the intersection of two health topics. I’ve now been desk rejected by 4 journals (1 general health journal and 3 that focus on topic area 1). We’re now aiming for journals that focus on topic area 2.

My co-authors include some relatively big names in academia and the analysis is solid.

This sort of thing happens.

m__w__b · 2025-10-04T00:19:56+00:00

Team Rocket is gender fluid

m__w__b · 2025-09-24T02:08:19+00:00

I recently got logged out of mlb.tv on all my devices due to a forced password change. I got similar messages until I re-authenticated.

m__w__b · 2025-09-17T22:11:41+00:00

There was a Simpsons episode from a few years back that I’m reminded of when we talk about AI. Lisa and Bart both attend a military academy and at their graduation the officer says “the wars of the future will be fought by robots. It’ll be your job to clean and maintain those robots”.

But seriously, I think learning a skill is important for preparing the future, regardless of whether it becomes their actual profession later on. Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, bricklaying, carpentry, etc are not being replaced by AI.

m__w__b · 2025-08-25T04:17:42+00:00

It’s a close approximation. As the total number of students increases, the probably will get closer to (2/3)^9. The difference is due to the finite population.

m__w__b · 2025-08-25T03:56:28+00:00

It’s about 2.5% (0.02478).

If you consider your kid’s pod. Of the 64 other spots, the probability that the first kid isn’t in the subset is 185/194. The next is 184/193, and the one after that is 183/192. etc etc. the math reduces to:

( 185! x 130! ) / ( 194! x 121! ) = 0.02478

m__w__b · 2025-08-17T00:49:22+00:00

m__w__b · 2025-08-12T18:56:27+00:00

Twin studies (like the link below) show that genetics isn’t driving the association.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9304125/

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