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lindamciver

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Educator, Writer, Troublemaker, Computer Scientist. Not necessarily in that order. Warning: "May attack the education system if left unsupervised (supervision might not be sufficient)" (quote credit: Solara) She/Her, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri/Bunurong land. ED of the Australian Data Science Education Institute, author of Raising Heretics. Podcaster at Make Me Data Literate.

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When you penalise wrong answers, you build in a sense of shame and failure to being wrong that most people never get over. It leads to cheating, to covering up of mistakes, and to avoiding doing things where being wrong is a possibility.

https://adsei.org/2024/05/03/learning-to-be-wrong/

#EduSky

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In March 2024 I shared a survey online to see how covid cautious people are, and whether there's a correlation between levels of caution and number of covid infections. The resulting dataset is rich, complex, and deeply flawed (like all surveys and most real datasets!). There's scope for purely statistical investigations, and deep discussions about the ways in which such a survey is flawed.

I'm now releasing the full dataset (and it's live, so more results may come in) for student projects and any other investigations. Like all material on this site, it is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License, and I would love it if you shared your projects, thoughts, and results back with us, so that we can share them with interested teachers and students.

https://adsei.org/covid-experience-dataset/

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Folks, I'm running a little survey to evaluate people's attitudes to taking covid precautions, and how that relates to catching covid. As an online survey, it's not exactly gold standard research! But it should still give some interesting insights. Please fill it out (it should be pretty quick!), and please share!
https://forms.gle/1f2owXNrijYFsrHZA

lindamciver, to random
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this is absolutely on point

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-relentless-pressure-on-women-to-be-perfect-and-silent-to-deserve-their-success/

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Our family has been navigating the world of gender affirming care for some years now, and I am increasingly frustrated with how many of the health care decisions made for (not by!) trans folks are made for political reasons, rather than medical or health focused reasons. I'm going to write about that, but I'm just the parent of trans folks. I'm not trans. So first, I want to platform some trans voices, because I think we could build a vastly more inclusive world if more of us understood what it's like to be trans.

https://lindamciver.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/gender-affirming-care-part-1-wrens-story/

lindamciver, to random
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cat’s in the bag

lindamciver, to random
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Got home late last night. Greeted by Emerald’s famous “What time do you call THIS??” stare

jonoabroad, to random
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Wait, BRS has gone back for more?

lindamciver,
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@jonoabroad seriously???

lindamciver, to random
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um...

" A more recent study shows that toxoplasma infection prevalence was a consistent, positive predictor of entrepreneurial activity."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31980266/

lindamciver, to random
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We could easily spend years talking about all the possible problems with data, but that's not helpful when you have a dataset in front of you here and now. So what are some questions you can ask about quantitative data to figure out whether you can trust it?

https://adsei.org/2024/01/22/whats-wrong-with-this-data/

lindamciver, to random
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Look, I'm a writer. I know there are too many superlatives in this piece. But there are not enough superlatives in the world for what @neilhimself and Fourplay did last night.

https://lindamciver.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/transcendent-and-creepy-all-at-once/

lindamciver, to random
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It's important to remember that there is no moral dimension to food. Nor is there a moral dimension to clothing. Live and let live, eat and let eat, wear and let wear!

lindamciver, to random
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me: you were smirking
16yo: I am not responsible for what my face does in its free time

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New essay on Substack's recent dubious choices concerning moderation and hopefully some open discussion on what the hell to do about it now:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/on-recent-developments-at-substack

lindamciver,
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@Catvalente “It is exhausting just trying to exist with any level of moral consistency online nowadays. And the people who keep being handed the keys to several kingdoms don’t ever bother to worry about it. They just let us tear ourselves apart trying to do the right thing while they feast. It’s all a game to them. It’s not remotely a game to us. So there’s no equivalence.” god, yes.

lindamciver, to random
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This conversation with Grant Ennis was enlightening and enraging. I'm thinking about activism and making change SO differently now. Check it out!

"So like while we would never believe that if we saw a stone rolling down a mountain, that if we all just stared at it and willed it back up the hill, it would do that, we do tend to believe that if we all individually do our part for the environment or ask people to just individually act that because people want that to be so and want that to work, that it just will, we believe that if we give people more information than then somehow just spontaneously they will change their behaviour, which really is quite fanciful."

https://adsei.org/podcast/grant-ennis/

lindamciver, to TodayILearned
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The most important word there is not data, or coding, or even science. It's Students. The emphasis in this word cloud is not on technical skills, it's on people. And that's what Data Science is about, when you get down to the crux of it. It's about people. About purpose. About meaning.

https://adsei.org/2023/12/18/what-really-matters/

#teaching #learning #STEM #DataScience #education

lindamciver, to random
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"data governance is not a topic that gets a lot of love. people yeah switch off when they hear it, but it really makes a huge amount of difference to what you're able to do with data (and not just avoiding big regulator fines)" new episode of MMDL with Fiona Tweedie!

https://adsei.org/podcast/fiona-tweedie-on-data-governance/

lindamciver, to random
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Sometimes when a drug I am on causes side effects and I am prescribed another one to tackle the side effects, I start to suspect I will wind up swallowing a horse...

she swallowed the spider to catch the fly,...

ct_bergstrom, to random
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Back in Melbourne for the first time in 40 years, riding the light rail across town, and thinking “How funny — all the suburbs are named for Aussie Rules teams!”

lindamciver,
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@ct_bergstrom in Melbourne it’s a tram, not light rail. It’s a crucial point of distinction between Melbourne and Sydney, and terribly important to be seen to be on the correct side of the nomenclature, lest you be accused of fraternising with the enemy.

Welcome to our border wars. :)

lindamciver, to random
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Tiktok is showing me heaps of trans content. Finally a positive use for the algorithm.

jonoabroad, to random
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There was a more obnoxiously large 4 by 4 than normal in the hospital car park, that was jacked up And had all the toys on it.

It also had " identify as a pirus" and far out, what a fuck wit.

lindamciver,
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@jonoabroad there is a group over here who go around letting the tyres down on tankers like that, with a flyer under the wiper saying “this car is helping to destroy the planet, also your tyres are flat” or words to that effect. my husband’s idea is just to put flyers explaining that the group is active in the area and why…

jonoabroad, to random
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Any Optus updates?

lindamciver,
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@jonoabroad slowly coming back online

jonoabroad, to random
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Fuck I'm tired.

Requiring people to eat every day, and multiple times at that, is just stupid.

I ATE YESTERDAY.

IS THAT NOT ENOUGH?

lindamciver,
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@jonoabroad I feel the same about doing the washing. Also cleaning. And mowing the lawn. Also weeding. Far out, it’s all a trap!!

ct_bergstrom, to random
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  1. In five days, I'm headed to Australia: Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. I can't wait. So many colleagues to meet and birds to see!

For those who are interested in such things, I'll be giving a few public talks in addition to a number of academic lectures.

The public talks will mostly focus on something I've been thinking about lately, "The Crisis of Human Collective Decision-Making in a Social Media World".

Details below.

lindamciver,
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@ct_bergstrom @DavidPenington

Don't forget the Spirits of the Sky bird show!

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Post the scariest photo from your camera roll

lindamciver,
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@thomasfuchs

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