Right! I think a lot of people believe that to make a PDF, you have to print a document, then scan it. Otherwise it somehow remains a Word document

Wow ... I hadn't thought of either option. I was just assuming a rule stating that all players have to be a specific height

This would only work if all players were the same height

In lots of cases, asking questions or talking to an editor is impossible - they simply forward the reviewers' comments with a automated request to do something about them. I guess that probably happened here!

Wow ... I think we've gone into ideas overload ... can we just park this for the night or we are in real danger of getting too creative

It could become like basketball where everyone on Traitors is incredibly tall

Yes. That is fair. But it depends on player height as well, because it would be more difficult to see a very tall player's hat.

This totally undermines the game. I get that it helps the VIEWERS remember who is traitor - but what about the PLAYERS - they're meant to be guessing. Therefore you need an additional rule stipulating that faithful players cannot look at the hats.

Thanks so much!

It makes a lot more sense but no one understands it

Have I read that right? I guess there is probably some kind of collider bias in people with haemotological disease have a lower threshold for hospital admission and/or maybe people who get serious chikengunya might have other more important risk factors?

I don't know a lot about chikungunya and dengue and suspect there are lots of valuable insights here! In fig 2 there's a curious association in which inpatients with both chikungunya and haemotological disease appear to have lower risk of dying (this doesn't seem to happen for dengue).

Lovely maps in this paper!

Sunk costs and spite are basically the vodka red bull of the examined life

the results
rang true with my beliefs

Lol

They look good though, right?

Another statistical significance hack I just came up with - assume there IS an effect (as we knew there was before doing the trial), then test how improbable the data are, thus concluding that while our experiment was implausible, the intervention is beneficial