8. CALLING BULLSHIT (Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West). I'm not really the target audience for this book, because, as @carlbergstrom.com can attest to, I already call bullshit on many things regularly. But it was a fun read all the same, entertaining, inquisitive, etc

I had 2 interruptions/stops from when I originally started in a PhD program. My first year of grad school was 2007 and I earned my PhD in 2019. I am going to echo… YOU are NOT a failure.

And then, of course, they'll also gaslight anyone who complains. Because they can say--hey, we're not stopping you from getting vaccines; if you want them, just figure it out yourself.

Seems like the conclusion of basically every technical inference problem is that you can't solely rely on the data to solve your problems for you. More or less fits every single issue - double ML, LLMs, propensity score, etc etc

Science can create more accurate and effective tools, but if it costs too much to make them, you'll either have to settle for less effective ones, sacrifice other things you care about, or find ways to raise more money than you currently have.

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We forgot to add “understand how to interpret your visualization” 🫣