I totally agree with noisy data being completely --> (5, 139, 99, 7, 2, 73) Rather than a more sensible weekly summery --> (50, 51, 49).

Good questions towards the end, Brady. I was not at all surprised when I saw "thalidomide" trending on Twitter the other day. It's quite a big ask for the public to just take everyone's word for it when it comes to things they have little hope of understanding, anything to help smooth that out is good (although with a little knowledge, you do run the risk of the fuelling the Dunning-Krueger effect...).

Excellent and educational episode.

Listening to this while doing statistics on March Madness games, trying to find out which stats have effects on outcomes and which stats are important in predicting upsets. I've always loved statistics and probability and analyzing data, but I also love pure math and number theory, so as a high schooler I'm not sure which route I'll take yet.

I love my systems of connectivity, descriptions, understanding of symmetries, fair division problems, and the such. Mathematics for its own sake is far from clark like busywork, much of it far from numbers too.

when are you getting nassim taleb on your show? he's an expert in extreme value theory and probability.

Brady podcasts are the interviews.

Glad for this

Well, if she's comfortable, I am. And I'm glad statistics are getting a good light right now.

I've seen at least 1 or 2 KZreadrs/Documentaries, in one case accurately estimating the largest fish that will be caught in a fisherman's career, from only a weeks worth of data.

I always find Bayesian quite full on, let alone the monty hall like family of cognitive illations, or more so Quantum Bayesian, where iv'e read the book but I'm still not sure over Many Worlds.

I was really happy to see interview with a statistician on covid19 vaccine however i am a little disappointed that the interview was not that much technical. I would be very much interested to see how efficacy is calculated and what is the confidence level or possible error. What i have read about pfizer vaccine is that it has 95% efficacy and this is based on a phase 3 study on 44000 people (22000 got vaccine and 22000 a placebo), after some time 170 people got covid 19 (162 in placebo group and 8 in the vaccinated group). To me, my gut feeling, numbers seem small to be able to say with confidence that the vaccine work and is 95% effective but perhaps math can prove it...

Inb4 the comment fight