Share this page!

Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
Twitter logo
29 Dec 21, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Lebron is 517 points from passing @kaj33 for all-time NBA/ABA points, combining playoffs + regular season. At his current pace, this occurs within 20 games.

A clear echelon of the top 5: Cap, LBJ, Karl, Kobe, MJ, with >3000 points to #6.

@KingJames #NBA75 #NBA #LakeShow
Lebron's about 100 games away from passing Kareem during the regular season, and absolutely dominates the record for the playoffs (nobody within 500 points).

/2
For active players gettin' there, KD likely cracks the top ten next season (98 games away at 27ppg). Carmelo could do it, but longevity will be the key, at his current rate of scoring he's likely 2 to 3 seasons away from the top ten.

/3
Note: Players are on uneven footing here, especially past players. In the 50's, there was a maximum of 13 playoff games. In the 70's, it was up to 21. In the 80's it was 26 and it's now 28.

Regular season more fair in this way: it's been 80-82 games since '61.

/4
So don't use it for anything than admiring statistical/scoring greatness. This post is ENTIRELY about "most points ever," and NOT "who's greatest ever."

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Tyler Black, MD

Tyler Black, MD Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @tylerblack32

Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
30 Dec 21
Good lord this harrassing-women-scientists doofus is awful. Nobody is anti-school (except kids, sometimes, who Eli doesn't actually care about). There is good reason to advocate for not having places of >30 people in a room congregating during a spike in the pandemic

/1
I am not anti school. I DO think that school has many unaddressed PREPANDEMIC stressors that the pandemic has worsened, but I also am a huge geek and did >20 years of the damn thing, as did all the PhDs he mocks and derides.

/2
Schools can safely be closed during periods of high transmission, and when they are open they need to be **safer and less stressful to kids**.

Covid safe would mean ventilation, smaller classes, different ways of learning, outdoor activities, and access to virtual tech.

/3
Read 5 tweets
Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
28 Dec 21
The wonderful Messier Object M45 (The Seven Sisters, Pleiades). It's famous as the @Subaru_corp logo ("Subaru" is the Japanese name for this cluster!). It is the closest Messier Object to Earth! The bright stars lighten up the gas remanents of their formation.

#astrophotography
[/1]
I've revisited this object after a year of #astrophotography practice, and what a difference a year makes! The left is in Dec 2020 with my DSLR setup, on a tripod outside of Vancouver. The right is with my setup on my balcony in Downtown Vancouver.

[/2]
Read 9 tweets
Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
23 Dec 21
Here is a "health care" check mark distributing misinformation on pediatric suicides freely and carelessly.

I am also attaching the graphic representation of the "astronomical spike" in pediatric suicides.

Btw, Kati, "commit suicide" is antiquated language please update.

/1
More graphic evidence of the "astronomical spike" in peds suicide in the past year. 🙄

10-14y suicides 1999-2020. Lower in 2020 than 2018 and not significantly different from 2019.

/2
Here is the thread where I break down pediatric suicides in 2020, fully establishing that what Kati said was misinformation.

/3
Read 8 tweets
Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
23 Dec 21
/1 Thread: C'mon @nytimes, you can you please get suicide statistics right?!!

We really need to address the NYT's propensity for not understanding, & worse, poorly communicating suicide statistics. A new article.

Sigh. Here we go again.
/2 (overall, the article a compelling read!)

But In it, we have college campuses reporting suicides, however the #'s are 1, 2, 3... this is not actually abnormal.

Let's zoom in on one: Worcester Polytechnic with 2 (possibly 4 after investigation, according to the NYC).
/3 Worcester Polytechnic has concern because of a cluster of deaths, and I understand that, but we actually have CDC provisional data for Worcester County for 18-22 year-olds.

The 2019-2020 vs 2020-2021 suicide frequencies are NOT different. And they are lower than 2018-2019's.
Read 24 tweets
Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
22 Dec 21
We can learn from tragedies - even preventable ones. It's important to remember though about hindsight bias, and the "nirvana fallacy." Let's talk about this a little bit.

Minithread time:

/1
Hindsight bias is forgetting the position we were at in the beginning of a decision; we have knowledge that came over time, but at the time we had less knowledge.

"You shouldn't have let your child the house," a police officer reprimands a parent after an accident occurs.

/2
Of course, the knowledge of the accident is where that advice comes from, not the knowledge prior to the accident. Parents let their children leave the house for a whole host of reasons, and sometimes parents THINK they are restricting it but the child leaves anyway.

/3
Read 13 tweets
Tyler Black, MD Profile picture
17 Dec 21
1/ California Kids: Suicides in COVID

The CA contrarians like the fearmongering & almost-always-wrong-in-two-months Monica Gandhi ghoulishly used child suicide #'s to advocate for reopening.

As shown, there was *no* unexpected increase of suicides during the yearlong lockdown. Image
2/ [/1]

When taken as a whole (red - March 2020-Feb 2021 vs blue - March 2019-Feb 2020), the overall increase was not significantly higher (95% CI -7.4% to +46%), though as the pandemic wore on things appear to increase than earlier.

Grey: 2013-2017

[/2]
3/ Rates in the 2nd half of the lockdown response in Sept-Feb 2020 are higher than 2019's rates (+2% to +169%, 63%), but it should be noted that this is not significantly higher than 2018, 2017, or 2016's rates.
[/3]
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @tylerblack32 has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @tylerblack32!

Read all threads by @tylerblack32

:(