4 Comments
User's avatar
for_my_own_good's avatar

Oh please, please do the R naught simulation. Hard edged stats to cut the squishy explanations, the humanities major cleverness about risk factors and stigma and socioeconomic factors and historic blah blah.

Expand full comment
Rebecca Culshaw Smith's avatar

I tend to try and explain mathematical concepts in a way that someone with nearly no math would understand (to varying degrees of success, admittedly). However I would be THRILLED to get more technical, even for only a few people. Thanks for the suggestion.

Expand full comment
Rebecca Culshaw Smith's avatar

You know what—I will. Give me a bit of time & I’ll be very happy to do a statistical deep dive.

Expand full comment
for_my_own_good's avatar

Not to be dismissive of those, but as a humanities type myself, I am sick of gaps in quantitative science getting patched with sentimentality.

Expand full comment