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   Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 (djoerd@idf.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 17:37:28 JST Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉

   As I grow older, I more clearly see how science is never truly objective; That all scientific studies have political implications.

   To my horror, I am starting to realize that some of the things I learnt and taught, such as significance testing, are rooted in vile, violent racism. Please, read Aubrey Clayton's "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics: Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers."

   https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014

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     Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 (djoerd@idf.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 17:38:31 JST Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉

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     Thanks to this great thread by @Iris and @pythonbynight, worth a read in its entirety: https://scholar.social/@Iris/116433727927734855 to at least https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116490065492280980

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 (djoerd@idf.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 17:47:05 JST Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉

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     ... now scanning my papers for "Pearson correlation" and "Fisher test"... may their names be cursed