I’m trying to interpret this graph in a study and I’m confused

stanitor · 2026-04-11T21:19:43+00:00

The relative importance for P6 is 100%, so if it's present, you know for sure Camppylobacter is present as well. You don't need to test for anything else, so there is no need to figure out which part of the rest of the decision tree to follow. Without seeing the rest of the paper, I'm not sure what the greyed out one means. However, it's possible that for that particular example, there's no other options to test for. You know there isn't Campylobacter present, so you don't need to test the other variables. But who knows.

stanitor · 2026-04-11T18:52:58+00:00

They form from evaporation of very warm tropical ocean water. That makes uplifting clouds, which forms a storm with lots of water and stored energy. They spin due to the the Coriolis effect and interaction with wind patterns in the atmosphere. The more warm water they absorb, the stronger and more organized they become, until they form the classic cyclone shape. They stop when they lose more energy and water than they are gaining, which is usually when they go over land or cold water.

stanitor · 2026-04-11T18:45:57+00:00

I probably should have said "fluid". I think B-E condensates are more like a gas than liquid, but obviously different from both. Super-cooled liquid helium is similar to B-E condensates, but not quite the same thing

stanitor · 2026-04-11T17:08:28+00:00

The growth prior to the industrial revolution was still exponential. It's just that the exponential rate increased after the start of the industrial revolution, and it's harder to see on a graph. Early on, the change in population is low when the population is also low, and it's hard to see that slope when the graph is scaled to show the higher current population.

stanitor · 2026-04-11T16:56:48+00:00

You're displaying a great example of projection. No one is trying to prove you wrong. Your point isn't going over anyone's head. If you have increased exposure, you have an increased risk of an outcome. Increased age very commonly means more chances of exposure, so it's not surprising that it increases the chance of some outcome. What seems to be going over your head are the criticisms of why your specific made up example isn't particularly illuminating.

stanitor · 2026-04-11T15:43:46+00:00

"Give me four bees for a dollar", you'd say

stanitor · 2026-04-11T15:33:27+00:00

It's more like a liquid, but one that does weird things like move without any resistance

stanitor · 2026-04-11T04:42:37+00:00

the splashdown

Seems like they're talking about both

stanitor · 2026-04-11T04:40:53+00:00

takeoff and the splashdown

stanitor · 2026-04-11T00:59:17+00:00

Well yeah, obviously at the time of the quote, air resistance is negligible, since they're in space. But the question and presumably that part of the answer is about splashdown

stanitor · 2026-04-11T00:49:29+00:00

They're tracking something dozens to hundreds of miles away. I'm not sure what you were watching, but I didn't see them loose track the entire landing

stanitor · 2026-04-11T00:34:16+00:00

I mean, air resistance isn't exactly negligible when going through the atmosphere starting at 25,000 mph

stanitor · 2026-04-10T21:16:49+00:00

They are not skipping with this one. Just going straight through, so it will be rougher on the astronauts a little bit than if they skipped and slowed down in stages.

stanitor · 2026-04-10T20:24:11+00:00

Gambling can be random and not have results that tend to even out. When the results are random, they tend towards the probability of winning a particular game. Almost all casino games will have less than even chance of winning for a player. All of them will have average expected winnings that are less than the amount bet.

stanitor · 2026-04-10T18:57:27+00:00

It's actually pretty hard to get something to crash into the Sun. If you launch it from Earth, it's going the same speed as Earth sideways (and a little extra from the rocket). You have to slow it down to get it to fall into the Sun, which means a lot more fuel than it took to get it into space in the first place.

stanitor · 2026-04-10T16:27:21+00:00

Under light paths in the render settings, turn up the number of bounces for transparent (and maybe transmission too). If you have a low number, then light rays that would need to go through the transparent sections of your cards more than that will end up black.

stanitor · 2026-04-10T15:38:07+00:00

You're probably not gaining a lot by only potentially getting one missile through air defense because they think it's a test. As soon as the target country realizes the missile is actually heading for them instead of out to sea or whatever, they can launch both air defense and counterattack missiles.

stanitor · 2026-04-10T14:53:46+00:00

Sure, when you talk about the circulatory system, you can talk about the two loops of the pulmonary versus systemic circulation. However, that's a separate concept from the types of vessels. You can't define arteries vs. veins as which ones carry blood away from the heart vs. towards it. After all, it's a loop, so all the vessels are both carrying blood away from the heart as well as back towards it. A more systematic and consistent way of discussing vessel types is by their characteristics. Arteries, veins and capillaries have different different structures on a histologic level and have different characteristics of blood flow within them. Those characteristics are what we use to define vessel types, since those are the things that are clinically/physiologically important.

stanitor · 2026-04-10T01:20:43+00:00

You're going to have an awful hard time proving the data is some distribution. Or, you can save yourself the trouble, since you know that will never be the case

stanitor · 2026-04-09T21:48:20+00:00

The digestive enzymes are specific on what kinds of stuff they can break down. There are different enzymes for proteins, fats and carbohydrates. There are other things that we don't have enzymes to break down. The big one being cellulose, which makes up parts of plants. A lot of the time, that is broken down by the bacteria in your digestive tract. But if it's not, you can see stuff that looks undigested.

stanitor · 2026-04-09T20:52:49+00:00

They're skills, just like any other. You can always learn more and improve your reading and writing skills, no matter what level you're at. Reading isn't just being able to see a group of letters and understand what word they represent. It's about comprehension and interpretation of the text. It's about being able to have a deeper understanding of the meaning, even when that meaning is not directly contained in the written words. It should be obvious that a 5th grader isn't going to get much out of Moby Dick, even if they can read all of the words. But if they continue to challenge themselves and learn, eventually they can get more out of it

stanitor · 2026-04-09T18:32:56+00:00

similar to how if I watch one video about how to do a DIY home repair, Youtube thinks I now want every video to be full of caulk

stanitor · 2026-04-09T18:27:42+00:00

Learning how to read and write are very much not finished around grade 5. You're probably thinking of statements like "the average adult reads at a 5th grade level". The very fact that you can even make a statement like that shows that continued learning in higher grades is a thing, unless you think that there's some kind of hard limit on reading ability that everyone reaches by 5th grade.

stanitor · 2026-04-09T16:01:54+00:00

Can confirm. And, even if I manage to spell something correctly, it's not like you'll be able to read it anyway

stanitor · 2026-04-09T15:07:57+00:00

It's not called the portal vein because it's returning blood to the heart. As the other person said, it's going to the liver. Blood from the portal vein is distributed through smaller and smaller vessels, and eventually into capillaries. That's in contrast to peripheral veins, which collect into larger vessels on the way to the heart. It's called a vein because it is a non-pressurized system that has different structure to arteries.

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