2020-09-11 11:08:02 @againstutopia My conception of what "Zionist" means is not unique at all
2020-09-11 08:54:00 @againstutopia Until such utopian time when linguistic, historical and identity differences are eliminated, Zionist students are asking to be treated with same respect as Pashtun students. Has anyone questioned your "fitness" to serve on student government on account of being a Pashtun?
2020-09-11 08:44:21 @zeemo_n I cannot speak for "them". And it is dangerous today to speak for folks with professional pride.
2020-09-11 08:34:10 @VladicaV @robinsjami @_MiguelHernan I hope it meet your expectations. You can find the Ladder of Causation demonstrated already in chapter one, though with no ladder.
2020-09-11 08:30:56 @againstutopia Care to take my litmus test for a Zionophobe? Say out loud: "The Jewish people has historical right to a sovereign homeland in the area that is now Israel." Try it! Forget all the populist slogans and accusations, just say those words out loud. No Zionophobe ever succeeded.
2020-09-11 07:57:09 @againstutopia I don't think you read the USC Faculty Letter carefully, https://t.co/BrGBNrZsRL. It defines Zionophobia clearly: "attempts to associate Zionism with such inflammatory accusations as racism, colonialism, and white supremacy, which are diametrically antithetical to Zionist ideas"
2020-09-11 06:51:25 Inside Higher Education had an alarming article today, on college anti-semitism: https://t.co/QPyPX9kc04 Although it references the USC Faculty Letter https://t.co/BrGBNrZsRL, it misses the main point: condemning antisemitism is seeking a license to do more of the same, namely,
2020-09-11 03:36:07 @VC31415 I would never use "effect" in predictive context - its sends a shock in my spine, perhaps because it reminds me of the dark days of regression analysis. I would use "trend", "slope", "conditional expectation" etc. not "effect".
2020-09-11 00:49:44 The expression "causal effect" is a relic of a period when people (mostly stats.) thought there are "non-causal effects". I believe it was Don Rubin who insisted on the distinction. Today, when we understand that all "effects" are causal, "causal effect" is redundant poetry. https://t.co/f25LYehiCe
2020-09-10 09:10:06 @EyalShay2 I am not sure that we are seeing the end of this genocidal strategy, given its enormous success among Western intellectuals, especially the gullible and misinformed.
2020-09-10 08:37:55 Can't believe my eyes. "It contains DAGs!" is now a selling point for econ. textbooks! In 2010 I approached Jeff Wooldridge to do one jointly. He chose a DAG-free route, to the tune of a tormented generation of econ students. Are we seeing an econ-spring? #econbookclub https://t.co/L9HD56u5cc
2020-09-10 07:43:13 @osazuwa @tdietterich @KLdivergence @StatModeling You can't analyze "bias" if you can't express the quantity you wish to estimate, ie "effect". This is something mainstream stat could not express, until the 1970-80's.
2020-09-10 07:33:21 Insightful observation. I've never looked at graphical models as a "language for representing measurement", but it is true, since "data generating process" is the same as "measurement process". Time to look at "measurement theory" and see if new results emerge, having a language https://t.co/ShEjBWlFbZ
2020-09-10 07:01:38 Who says things only get worse? I am old enough to remember the 1967 Arab League Summit, famous for its "Three No's" https://t.co/ZqEjNw6YBv
2020-09-09 11:25:06 @rodakker @mgaldino From what I recall, Jaynes had no causal symbols. "No symbols no science" said Augustus de Morgan (1864).
2020-09-09 05:19:04 Holy Moses! Some truths take doing to get accepted! https://t.co/XxLS73m7Cm
2020-09-08 19:15:28 I was wondering too. I talked to McGrayne about it and it turned out the people she interviewed for her book were all Bayesian stats, namely, total oblivion to causality. They even claimed Bayesian Networks are not "Bayesian", because they do not invoke priors on parameters. 2/2 https://t.co/b4jC8AR7Hh
2020-09-08 11:44:29 @RobCalver5 Incredible. #DiscreteMathematics, of all fields? Mathematicians, so it seems, have a nose for new challenges.
2020-09-07 19:10:07 Gratified to see #oncology #Guoncology and #urology entering the modern era of causal analysis. Key quote (on limitations of DAGs): "These assumptions, however, are necessary for any research study, and the advantage of DAGs is that they make these assumptions explicit." https://t.co/oY0fRc33sW
2020-09-07 05:52:32 Another antizionist Jew: "Mother, I hate you! The boys in school called you names and, unable to defend you, I joined them! I hate you for making me feel so stupid! And so guilty!" (After: https://t.co/ME8CVzhkuHhttps://t.co/FwAo5KcLTM
2020-09-07 04:56:45 @VC31415 I dont think the stretch is such a stretch. Statistics has developed its own mathematical notation, based on properties of distribution functions (ie no do()) because it was developed before structural equations. It would be L3 speculation to ask: "what if history was different?"
2020-09-07 01:16:48 @VC31415 To stretch the analogy, one can argue: "Who needs statistics (L1)? Isn't it just a special case of L3 ? Yes it is! But it is such an important special case that universities create departments in its honor, and train thousands of PhD's who know nothing about L2 and L3.
2020-09-07 00:23:11 As I predicted in a previous tweet, the Open Letter of 43 USC professors about Rose Ritch resignation has become a turning point in the struggle against Zionophobia. This editorial of the Jewish Journal titles it "I am a Zionist - A New Frontier" : https://t.co/DCGdSVB098
2020-09-06 23:51:08 @VC31415 We have an appropriate generaliztion of do() for L3, it is do(x) itself, which is the subset of sentences in L3 that can be inferred from population experiments. do-calculus merely recognizes that this subset of sentences deserves special attention and a special vocabulary.
2020-09-06 19:07:17 Why is L2 different from L3? The question keeps coming up every 2 weeks or so
2020-09-05 23:25:47 @ModernMaccabi @AndrewPessin @CollegeFix @UCLA I don't think so. Having read the students comments, they are just ordinary hungry alligators, emboldened by frightened university administrators and silent academics. But things may change tomorrow.
2020-09-05 23:19:33 @JaapAbbring @VC31415 @PHuenermund I am not sure either. The only paper I saw on this connection is: https://t.co/MOLPCBozFr. It offers a platform for modeling an agent's state of belief which is different than yours, analyzing and rectifying causal misrepresentations.
2020-09-05 22:09:02 The village elderly told us the alligator only needs one baby each morning, which is not unreasonable, leaving most of us safe. Today they say: no more babies left, and it's our turn. We? Who have been so pro-alligators? Isn't it time we try an elderly once? https://t.co/eVZHQIXhnf
2020-09-05 20:17:24 @PHuenermund It's easy to connect to "existing" methodology, but not to one abandoned. I bet you Angrist's students never read Haavelmo or Wold &
2020-09-05 11:13:54 @PHuenermund Does being "native" make DAGs more palatable or less palatable to economists? Judging by the way Heckman reacted to https://t.co/Jf1SkgV3CK, andImbens to #Bookofwhy, eg https://t.co/sZPpL7Ifmg, one would begin to doubt the merit of nativity.
2020-09-05 10:38:15 @offaltube Eizehu Gibor? Ha'Kovesh et Yitsro!(Hard at my age)
2020-09-05 09:46:54 A thread in their memory -- 11 torches on the altar of the world's normalization of evil. https://t.co/Dfg9hOP9J2
2020-09-05 09:34:44 Thank you for all the birthday congratulations I received on this screen yesterday, especially the Twitter's balloons, a pleasant reminders of how blessed I am, at 84, with 36 more years of productive life, to have so many friends among seekers of truth and lovers of fun.
2020-09-04 23:36:08 @deaneckles You'll probably get lots of "see here"&
2020-09-04 11:28:18 @GivingTools The former does not depend on X, the latter does.The former is computable from observed data (+assumptions), the latter isn't. Averaging over X and limiting X to pre-treatment variables, might get you somewhere.
2020-09-04 08:27:38 Some readers wrote that the PO framework as formulated in @VC31415 lecture notes https://t.co/IbxzcF99bCis not totally helpless in dealing with sample selection bias, a problem that can be managed by "reweighing" methods. This is not exactly true, see: https://t.co/w5fRMlUs68https://t.co/YYFQlPGUjE
2020-09-04 06:16:29 @JaapAbbring Please alert us when it is published and send us a link to the Editorial.
2020-09-03 23:56:35 I've found 5 interesting comments added to Dana MacKanzie's post (july 6 2020) on Race, Covid, Mortality and Simpson's Paradox: https://t.co/TqBGAPsU87 Just click on "comments" at the end of the post.
2020-09-11 11:08:02 @againstutopia My conception of what "Zionist" means is not unique at all
2020-09-11 08:54:00 @againstutopia Until such utopian time when linguistic, historical and identity differences are eliminated, Zionist students are asking to be treated with same respect as Pashtun students. Has anyone questioned your "fitness" to serve on student government on account of being a Pashtun?
2020-09-11 08:44:21 @zeemo_n I cannot speak for "them". And it is dangerous today to speak for folks with professional pride.
2020-09-11 08:34:10 @VladicaV @robinsjami @_MiguelHernan I hope it meet your expectations. You can find the Ladder of Causation demonstrated already in chapter one, though with no ladder.
2020-09-11 08:30:56 @againstutopia Care to take my litmus test for a Zionophobe? Say out loud: "The Jewish people has historical right to a sovereign homeland in the area that is now Israel." Try it! Forget all the populist slogans and accusations, just say those words out loud. No Zionophobe ever succeeded.
2020-09-11 07:57:09 @againstutopia I don't think you read the USC Faculty Letter carefully, https://t.co/BrGBNrZsRL. It defines Zionophobia clearly: "attempts to associate Zionism with such inflammatory accusations as racism, colonialism, and white supremacy, which are diametrically antithetical to Zionist ideas"
2020-09-11 06:51:25 Inside Higher Education had an alarming article today, on college anti-semitism: https://t.co/QPyPX9kc04 Although it references the USC Faculty Letter https://t.co/BrGBNrZsRL, it misses the main point: condemning antisemitism is seeking a license to do more of the same, namely,
2020-09-11 03:36:07 @VC31415 I would never use "effect" in predictive context - its sends a shock in my spine, perhaps because it reminds me of the dark days of regression analysis. I would use "trend", "slope", "conditional expectation" etc. not "effect".
2020-09-11 00:49:44 The expression "causal effect" is a relic of a period when people (mostly stats.) thought there are "non-causal effects". I believe it was Don Rubin who insisted on the distinction. Today, when we understand that all "effects" are causal, "causal effect" is redundant poetry. https://t.co/f25LYehiCe
2020-09-10 09:10:06 @EyalShay2 I am not sure that we are seeing the end of this genocidal strategy, given its enormous success among Western intellectuals, especially the gullible and misinformed.
2020-09-10 08:37:55 Can't believe my eyes. "It contains DAGs!" is now a selling point for econ. textbooks! In 2010 I approached Jeff Wooldridge to do one jointly. He chose a DAG-free route, to the tune of a tormented generation of econ students. Are we seeing an econ-spring? #econbookclub https://t.co/L9HD56u5cc
2020-09-10 07:43:13 @osazuwa @tdietterich @KLdivergence @StatModeling You can't analyze "bias" if you can't express the quantity you wish to estimate, ie "effect". This is something mainstream stat could not express, until the 1970-80's.
2020-09-10 07:33:21 Insightful observation. I've never looked at graphical models as a "language for representing measurement", but it is true, since "data generating process" is the same as "measurement process". Time to look at "measurement theory" and see if new results emerge, having a language https://t.co/ShEjBWlFbZ
2020-09-10 07:01:38 Who says things only get worse? I am old enough to remember the 1967 Arab League Summit, famous for its "Three No's" https://t.co/ZqEjNw6YBv
2020-09-09 11:25:06 @rodakker @mgaldino From what I recall, Jaynes had no causal symbols. "No symbols no science" said Augustus de Morgan (1864).
2020-09-09 05:19:04 Holy Moses! Some truths take doing to get accepted! https://t.co/XxLS73m7Cm
2020-09-08 19:15:28 I was wondering too. I talked to McGrayne about it and it turned out the people she interviewed for her book were all Bayesian stats, namely, total oblivion to causality. They even claimed Bayesian Networks are not "Bayesian", because they do not invoke priors on parameters. 2/2 https://t.co/b4jC8AR7Hh
2020-09-08 11:44:29 @RobCalver5 Incredible. #DiscreteMathematics, of all fields? Mathematicians, so it seems, have a nose for new challenges.
2020-09-07 19:10:07 Gratified to see #oncology #Guoncology and #urology entering the modern era of causal analysis. Key quote (on limitations of DAGs): "These assumptions, however, are necessary for any research study, and the advantage of DAGs is that they make these assumptions explicit." https://t.co/oY0fRc33sW
2020-09-07 05:52:32 Another antizionist Jew: "Mother, I hate you! The boys in school called you names and, unable to defend you, I joined them! I hate you for making me feel so stupid! And so guilty!" (After: https://t.co/ME8CVzhkuH https://t.co/FwAo5KcLTM
2020-09-07 04:56:45 @VC31415 I dont think the stretch is such a stretch. Statistics has developed its own mathematical notation, based on properties of distribution functions (ie no do()) because it was developed before structural equations. It would be L3 speculation to ask: "what if history was different?"
2020-09-07 01:16:48 @VC31415 To stretch the analogy, one can argue: "Who needs statistics (L1)? Isn't it just a special case of L3 ? Yes it is! But it is such an important special case that universities create departments in its honor, and train thousands of PhD's who know nothing about L2 and L3.
2020-09-07 00:23:11 As I predicted in a previous tweet, the Open Letter of 43 USC professors about Rose Ritch resignation has become a turning point in the struggle against Zionophobia. This editorial of the Jewish Journal titles it "I am a Zionist - A New Frontier" : https://t.co/DCGdSVB098
2020-09-06 23:51:08 @VC31415 We have an appropriate generaliztion of do() for L3, it is do(x) itself, which is the subset of sentences in L3 that can be inferred from population experiments. do-calculus merely recognizes that this subset of sentences deserves special attention and a special vocabulary.
2020-09-06 19:07:17 Why is L2 different from L3? The question keeps coming up every 2 weeks or so
2020-09-05 23:25:47 @ModernMaccabi @AndrewPessin @CollegeFix @UCLA I don't think so. Having read the students comments, they are just ordinary hungry alligators, emboldened by frightened university administrators and silent academics. But things may change tomorrow.
2020-09-05 23:19:33 @JaapAbbring @VC31415 @PHuenermund I am not sure either. The only paper I saw on this connection is: https://t.co/MOLPCBozFr. It offers a platform for modeling an agent's state of belief which is different than yours, analyzing and rectifying causal misrepresentations.
2020-09-05 22:09:02 The village elderly told us the alligator only needs one baby each morning, which is not unreasonable, leaving most of us safe. Today they say: no more babies left, and it's our turn. We? Who have been so pro-alligators? Isn't it time we try an elderly once? https://t.co/eVZHQIXhnf
2020-09-05 20:17:24 @PHuenermund It's easy to connect to "existing" methodology, but not to one abandoned. I bet you Angrist's students never read Haavelmo or Wold &
2020-09-05 11:13:54 @PHuenermund Does being "native" make DAGs more palatable or less palatable to economists? Judging by the way Heckman reacted to https://t.co/Jf1SkgV3CK, andImbens to #Bookofwhy, eg https://t.co/sZPpL7Ifmg, one would begin to doubt the merit of nativity.
2020-09-05 10:38:15 @offaltube Eizehu Gibor? Ha'Kovesh et Yitsro!(Hard at my age)
2020-09-05 09:46:54 A thread in their memory -- 11 torches on the altar of the world's normalization of evil. https://t.co/Dfg9hOP9J2
2020-09-05 09:34:44 Thank you for all the birthday congratulations I received on this screen yesterday, especially the Twitter's balloons, a pleasant reminders of how blessed I am, at 84, with 36 more years of productive life, to have so many friends among seekers of truth and lovers of fun.
2020-09-04 23:36:08 @deaneckles You'll probably get lots of "see here"&
2020-09-04 11:28:18 @GivingTools The former does not depend on X, the latter does.The former is computable from observed data (+assumptions), the latter isn't. Averaging over X and limiting X to pre-treatment variables, might get you somewhere.
2020-09-04 08:27:38 Some readers wrote that the PO framework as formulated in @VC31415 lecture notes https://t.co/IbxzcF99bCis not totally helpless in dealing with sample selection bias, a problem that can be managed by "reweighing" methods. This is not exactly true, see: https://t.co/w5fRMlUs68 https://t.co/YYFQlPGUjE
2020-09-04 06:16:29 @JaapAbbring Please alert us when it is published and send us a link to the Editorial.
2020-09-03 23:56:35 I've found 5 interesting comments added to Dana MacKanzie's post (july 6 2020) on Race, Covid, Mortality and Simpson's Paradox: https://t.co/TqBGAPsU87 Just click on "comments" at the end of the post.