Anthropologist, Biodemographer, Disease Ecologist, Stanford Professor, Castaño House RF. #BlackLivesMatter
Jul 3, 2020 • 37 tweets • 10 min read
New paper out today with @MikePricePhD on how biological entities, who have been shaped by natural selection, should make decisions when the payoffs to those decisions are variable and have enduring consequences. (doi.org/10.1017/ehs.20…) 1/
This paper has a strong bearing on recent debates in behavioral economics about the nature of human rationality. 2/
Jan 28, 2020 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
1/n An explainer from @edyong209 on R0, the basic reproduction number (or ratio), an important quantity in infectious-disease epidemiology. He does a good job of deflating the hype around the specific estimates of R0 for the current #nCoV2019 outbreak.
2/n A key point, which he doesn't emphasize, is that R0 applies *at the start of an epidemic*. The zero ("naught") refers to the generation of the epidemic. The zeroth generation is right at the start.
