Stat PhD candidate @UW. Tweets about: stat jokes, stats for microbiomes, #rstats, stats education, justice/equity, and the occasional political subtweet. He/him
Nov 12, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
It's grad school application season. This year I'd like to highlight one of the many difficult and most ignored barriers to pursuing an advanced degree: the financial cost of applying.
a 🧵 with my perspective and some suggestions for departments to alleviate this barrier
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I applied to 8 PhD programs. The total financial cost to do this was over $1000. There were two major components of this cost: application fees and the GRE. I think to many profs this seems like a nominal fee for such a major career and life move...
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Oct 16, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Hey you, person that works with data! Have you ever implemented or used "regression"? Have you, like me, used regression for years without questioning why it's called regression, and not something that is actually descriptive?
A 🧵 on the linguistic history of "regression":
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Turns out, it's not just because statisticians are terrible at naming everything (we are!). Also turns out, it has origins the eugenic history of statistics.
Before you roll your eyes and dismiss this as another statistician SJW trying to cancel science, let's talk about Galton.
