In the early part of any epidemiology course, few things throw students as much as computing age-adjusted mortality. It seems really counter-intuitive that two populations could have the exact same mortality rate and yet one is significantly less healthy than the other. Thinking about it for a moment, though, before diving into computation, makes it…
This is part 3 of the series inspired by Cindy Gallop’s brilliant talk on finding talented women or minorities. Not only is your company not hiring female or minority employees, not investing in female or minority-led companies, but YOU ARE LITERALLY ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. The tech workforce is disproportionately white and Asian male, and…
Yesterday, I wrote about Cindy Gallop’s talk on finding diverse talent The Rest of the Story … There were two additional points in her presentation I want to address, but first … You can take a look at our latest prototype under development, Aztech, here and play it in Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. Play…
First of all, you should all watch this video by the brilliant Cindy Gallop. Everything she says about recruiting women for jobs as Executive Creative Directors applies exactly to women, black , Hispanic or Native American men applying for jobs in technology or for investor funding. Did you watch it? Good! Let me reinforce one of her points….
Policy makers have very good reason for wanting to know how common a condition or disease is. It allows them to plan and budget for treatment facilities, supplies of medication, rehabilitation personnel. There are two broad answers to the question, “How common is condition X?” and, interestingly, both of these use the exact same SAS…
Who was it that said asking a statistician about sample size is like asking a jeweler about price. If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. We all know that the validity of a chi-square test is questionable if the expected sample size of the cells is less than five. Well, what do you…
Recall that in the last post we were using SAS functions to score a test that had been completed by middle school and upper elementary students. Since we wanted to make it as easy as possible for students to enter their answers, we accepted just about any format. Picking up where we left off ……
Did you ever fill out one of those online forms where you kept trying to submit it and got messages like, “You need to enter your phone number in the format 311-234-12234” or You cannot have any special characters in this field. That one really irritates me because, in fact, my last name has a…
On twitter, there were a few comments from people who said they didn’t like to take interns because “More than doing work, they want to watch me work.” I see both sides of that. You’re busy. You’re not netflix. I get it. On the other hand, that’s a good way to learn. The data are…
It’s after midnight and officially the weekend so it’s time for the sixth installment of Mama AnnMaria’s Guide to Not Getting Your Sorry Ass Fired. Click here for all of my advice on getting fired and quitting. Click here to buy the games I make on my day job. As I was saying … there are…