[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Well, that's why you hope that gets controlled with a natural experiment. You can't, for instance, use a control group in a country with different medical policies, but you could have comparable cities and neighborhoods that, arguably, should have similar medical advancements over time. The closer the control group is, the better your validity should be (too bad there's no mirror universe!).

There's a couple other tricks you can use, but honestly my expertise is in education so I'm not sure how widely these are used; Instrumental variables (basically proxies for your target) for instance, like adding property value or something to the model can inadvertently control for things associated with that, like better medical care or infrastructure. You risk over-specifying the model but we have diagnostics that help with that.

(Btw, education, the main concern is there's a billion possible factors in the home, classroom, society, etc, we can't directly capture, so that's how it's used there).

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

These comments are all over the place. If you must look at correlations, there are some more rigorous methodologies to study cell phone use or vehicle weight you can use.

My preference is when you're given historical data is to find a natural experiment and use something like an interrupted time series regression. For example, if there are two cities with mostly similar characteristics but one criminalizes cell phone use more explicitly, you can compare statical differences in accidents while controlling for historical trends.

And that's just from the top of my head. That said, there's fairly concrete evidence without looking at correlations... at least, we know heavier cars are much more lethal from physical tests, no correlation needed. The historical trends also have conflicting factors too, like safety features; e.g. mandatory rear view camera in... 2017, I think it was? So yeah, things can also just be murky if you don't isolate your variables.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago

Say what you will, that kid wears shoes in bed.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Wow, the lies the spokespeople say on their side always piss me off most, maybe because that 30-something percent who believe that shit.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It very much exists, and I second the recommendations for Parsec (for anything) or the network modes in Retroarch, Dolphin, etc (for emulation). The emulators imo work better, and Dolphin even has support for GBA controllers for GameCube stuff like Crystal Chronicles.

Those have given me the best luck, although my friend used to have terrible lag from being half a world away. Seems to be a little better now, especially with Parsec, but since it's not client side it's never going to have perfect ping for very time sensitive things. You're ultimately doing a low latency stream, so it's about as good as games played off a stream.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I wonder if they're actually lemons and it's seasoned lemon pepper style. That's a bit more typical, although who knows-- it's both a long time ago and on a fucking airline. Still a gluttonous amount regardless of the citrus fruit.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Trump >= 0.37 Americas

However, the delta Trump is about -0.13 Americas over 1.7 months, with some margin of error.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Great quality for a meme, reflections and all feathered in (helps the water is really the same color lol). I love how indifferent everyone is, too.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Can confirm 1, dad grew up on TV dinners and canned food; and somehow Grandma thought it was ok to add ketchup to make spaghetti sauce. That second one might be 2, too, actually.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I wonder if you can get it to auto run if you stick it on a USB and let someone find it...

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

To this day I've still failed to talk my stepdad out of buying Madden games... even when they no longer work on Windows 10 (and of course Linux) so he's having to upgrade... Sigh.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

I mean, until their internal ram failed and you needed to do a full RPG in one sitting, but I guess that's true of board games losing pieces or breaking.

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