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Statistically Insignificant

A podcast with visual aids about statistics in everyday life. Content is nominally published every fortnight. Support the pod on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificant Statistically Insignificant is created on Wurundjeri and Dharawal country. We acknowledge the elders past, present, and future. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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E44 Mutual Aid II: Good for the soul

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2023/11/26

Our second of three episodes on the role of mutual aid in the leftist political project. This time we talk about why mutual aid is good for the people doing it.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantIf you have a statistic or a chart you'd like us to talk about contact us.Email: StatisticallyInsignificantPod@protonmail.chTwitter: @StatInsigPodMastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@statisticallyinsignificantBart can be found

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E43: Mutual Aid Logistics

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2023/10/04

First of a three part series about mutual aid. This episode deals with the logistics of managing mutual aid stuff, particularly around mutual aid funds that act as pools of money for a community.Example for individual project or person:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ClTaXdR5oyyx1hrivxJvqGSc77KAeWvwdoo-IQWHkmg/edit?usp=sharingExample for community: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l_ugGisnFxG769LRWBojAynhSjtXklYiK0LhsGkfKuc/edit?usp=sharingSupport the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes

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E42: Carbon Credits

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2023/08/20

If a cow farts in a field and there's a techbro with a box to catch it, does it really produce greenhouse gases?References:Chay, F., Badgley, G., Martin, K., Freeman, J., Hamman, J., and Cullenward, D. (2022) 'Unpacking ton-year accounting', (carbon)plan, https://carbonplan.org/research/ton-year-explainer.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantThe video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/xADdzfSKTe0If you

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E41: Fatagories

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2023/07/08

We talk about how and why BMI sucks as a metric for either health or fatness, and other models for classifying fatness that actually reflect the needs and experiences of fat people.If you want to know more about relative risk statistics check out E19: Pregnancy Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dC4VRD3B8Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferencesnagualdesign (2021) 'BMI Chart', Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA

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E40: Marking

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2023/06/24

Marking schemes are statistical objects and boy are they weird ones.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantThe video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/2JuiaFzgbyEIf you have a statistic or a chart you'd like us to talk about contact us.Email: StatisticallyInsignificantPod@protonmail.chTwitter: @StatInsigPodMastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@statisticallyinsignificantBart can be found @SnitchinOrwell on

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E39: Medical Device Failure Ft. Tom Bowers

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2023/05/23

We talk to Dr Tom Bowers about how medical devices fail in the body, and how that is translated to statistics that can help with early detection.Tom can be found at https://twitter.com/fancywookieeSupport the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:Sheffield, S. (2019). The Controversy Over Essure Birth Control. Women Leading Change: Case Studies on Women, Gender, and Feminism, 4(2).Cohen, D. (2011). Out of joint: the

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E38: KPIs

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2023/04/18

We talk about KPIs as instruments of measurement, class power structures, and how to be a bad capitalist if you can.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantThe video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/bwCvUp-hE-IIf you have a statistic or a chart you'd like us to talk about contact us.Email: StatisticallyInsignificantPod@protonmail.chTwitter: @StatInsigPodMastodon:

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E37: April's Fool

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2023/03/31

Grievance time!

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E36: The Uber Pricing Model

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2023/03/18

Uber continues to make its pricing and pay models less transparent to drivers and passangers. Workers, as ever, are pushing back, and here are some ideas for how to do it.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:The Rideshare Guy (2023) '2 Uber Drivers: Same Requests DIFFERENT PAY! You Won't Believe This!' 2nd March, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UADTiL3S67I.Helling, B. (2023) 'Your Complete Guide to Uber's

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E35: Wages, Prices, Inflation

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2023/02/28

If the cost of things is increasing faster than your wages, where is that money going?Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferencesStanford, J. (2023) 'Profit-Price Spiral: The Truth Behind Australia's Inflation', The Australia Institute, Centre for Future Work. Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2022, December). Wage Price Index, Australia. ABS.

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E34: Government Legitimacy

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2023/02/18

In an act of considerable masochism the crew dive deep into how Ben Shapiro thinks governments maintain legitimacy. Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes, early access, and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:Haerpfer, C., Inglehart, R., Moreno, A., Welzel, C., Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano J., M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen (eds.). 2022. World Values Survey: Round Seven - Country-Pooled Datafile Version 5.0. Madrid, Spain &

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E33: Wages V Inflation

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2023/01/31

When is a raise not a raise? How do you work out what a multi-year pay agreement should do? Why does the government think that young people and people with disabilites have less expensive lives than others?We dive into the relationship between pay and inflation, looking at how comparison calculations can be done, and what gaps emerge over extended periods of time.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes, early access, and additional material:

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52:08

E32: Intersections and Interactions

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2023/01/17

We look at how the theory of intersectional feminism can be modelled statistically, and use this to examine representations of interactions between covariates.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes, early access, and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferencesBrown, T. (2012). The intersection and accumulation of racial and gender inequality: Black women's wealth trajectories. The Review of Black Political Economy, 39(2), 239-258.Crenshaw, K. (1990)

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76:35

Unlocked BE12: Representing Representatively

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2022/12/25

Electoral systems are losing their legitimacy in the public eye, and have never been very good at actually representing the will of the population. We talk through a different way of approaching representative selection with special guest: Dean of the Show - Tess's partner Dean.

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E31: Population Stats for the Individual

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2022/12/14

We talk through the limitations of applying population statistics to individual experience, but some of the ways you can get a better idea of your own likely outcomes. IVF success (and the mess of statistics for what that means) is used as an extended case study.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes, early access, and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:IVF Australia (2022) 'IVF success rates'

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E30: Blood Quantum

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2022/12/03

We talk to Liam Stevens of Toa Tabletop about the history of racism manifest in blood quantum, and how those ideas persist today.Liam can be found here:https://twitter.com/ToaTabletophttps://www.toatabletop.com/https://twitter.com/_Boganova_References: Wolfe, P. (2016). Traces of history: Elementary structures of race. Verso Books.American Association of Biological Anthropologists (2019). 'AABA Statement on Race and Racism',

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51:06

E29: Effective Altruism and Longtermism

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2022/11/19

We dive deep into the bat shit insane proposed predictions of these ideologies and why they don't understand what would be involved in the calculations they are trying to do.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes, early access, and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferencesHoel, E. (2022). 'Why I am not an effective altruist', The Intrinsic Perspective, https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-an-effective-altruistCremer, C. Z., & Kemp, L.

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E28: Missing Variables

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2022/10/21

Statistics can't see causal relationships directly, but that doesn't mean we can't reason about them. We look at the sorts of errors that get made in explanations of stuff, and a bunch of case studies ranging from being gay and doing crimes to COVID.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes, early access, and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:Thacher, D. (2003). Order maintenance reconsidered: Moving beyond strong causal reasoning. J. Crim. L

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E27: Anecdata

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2022/10/06

STEMlords have an annoying habit of claiming that social science is only anecdotal evidence. We talk through what that actually means and how to make it consistent across a handful of case studies of the good, the bad, and the weird.References:Richards, K., Death, J., & Ronken, C. (2021). What do victim/survivors of sexual violence think about Circles of Support and Accountability?. Victims & Offenders, 16(6), 893-911.Stewart, C. C., Langan, D., & Hannem, S. (2013). Victim experiences

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48:39

E26: Eugenics in Statistics

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2022/09/22

There are bigoted skeletons in the dark closet of statistics and we're going to shine some light on them. An examination of what no material analysis does to a motherfucker.References:Clayton, A. (2020) How Eugenics Shaped Statistics, Nautilus, October 2020, https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-9365/Unknown author - Historical Spotlight: Eugenics - journey to the dark side at the dawn of statistics, Statistics.com,

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