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WeRateDAGs @weratedags.com · 15h

Hello Bluesky!

We rate DAGs. Some are great. Some are... not so great. But we rate them all.

Let's start with a famous powerpoint hairball a.k.a. "the Afghanisdag", presented to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal around 2010. His own rating?

1/10 "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war"

"the Afghanisdag", a massive tangle of arrows and noun phrases, possibly describing a counterinsurgency problem: lethal within 20ft in briefing environments.

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 14h

a woman is sitting on a table with the words hello there written on the bottom

ALT: a woman is sitting on a table with the words hello there written on the bottom

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 4d

I do feel that Abrams was painted into a corner with EP9, trying to fix what happened in EP8. Johnson just threw out plot points (eg Knights of Ren, Snoke, Snoke’s search for Luke, Rey’s parentage, etc). Even Mark Hamill told him he didn’t agree with the plot choices!

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 4d

I only watch it when I’m too happy and want to get depressed about society!!

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 4d

May I introduce you to Idiocracy. It’s a comedy, but after watching it, I had the fear of impending doom that it was more of a documentary!

youtu.be/6lai9QhBibk?...

Idiocracy (2006) Trailer | Luke Wilson | Dax Shepard

YouTube video by Film Trailer Channel

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 4d

I’m in this post and I LOVE IT!!

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 5d

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 9d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 7d

I feel I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for the judicious use of a small syringe of saline with a red sticker, rather than a full on rant when the surgeon asks for muscle relaxation just before the end of the case.

Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 7d

I find it unfair that I was yet again not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

Nearly 12 years in the NHS and I have not sworn at any of the people who really needed it over that time.

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, don’t you just give 1 ampoule of each drug!?!

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 15d

#statsmeme

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 5d

It keeps me up at night. It may just be an experience thing, but publishing my code for the first time is in my top 5 most anxiogenic moments!

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Grumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 5d

yep 😞

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 5d

Well written, Ben. Working in medical research, your blog echoes my fears about clinicians using LLMs for their stats, without the stats literacy to critically appraise the LLM output. It wasn’t great before and I fear it’s only going to get worse.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 8d

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 5d

Regardless of your circumstances, it doesn’t negate the fact that using LLMs for stats is unwise, for the multitude of reasons already outlined (see below). Ben (aka “some guy on Bluesky” from somewhere “with a democracy”) wrote eloquently of our fears when the ignorant do what you wrote about.

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 8d

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.

Because good statistics is not about producing code.

It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 9d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 8d

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.

Because good statistics is not about producing code.

It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 9d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 6d

“Productive procrastination”!

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 8d

I’m a supposably pedant!!

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 9d

a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says `` what did you say ? ''

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 9d

Since the sequels and in-between movies/TV series have come out, it’s made it a bit messy, but it still holds true. As long as the twist about Vader is maintained (ESB) before you meet him as a boy, Anakin’s downfall and redemption are more meaningful.

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 10d

Machete order, I presume?

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Jeremy Labrecque @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 17d

One reason I oppose associational or other non-causal language in research questions is it lets people think they don't need causal inference to answer causal questions.

(When the underlying question is causal, of course. Which it almost always is.)

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Ben Moran @benmoran.bsky.social · 17d

There seems to be a disconnect between the estimate and what that “association” means in terms of the underlying hypothesis. It’s removed the final step of interpretation of the result, and stating an “association between X and y” covers methodological laziness (of which I am certainly guilty of).

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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 18d

We have created a resource in the ISBA website where you can find all recorded webinars:

bayesian.org/ba-webinars/

Also, don't forget about the ISBA YouTube channel featuring curated playlists from ISBA World Meetings and specialized workshops and seminars:

www.youtube.com/@isba-intern...

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