Statistically Insignificant
A podcast with visual aids about statistics in everyday life. Content is nominally published every fortnight. Support the pod on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificant Statistically Insignificant is created on Wurundjeri and Dharawal country. We acknowledge the elders past, present, and future. Sovereignty was never ceded.
E44 Mutual Aid II: Good for the soul
Our second of three episodes on the role of mutual aid in the leftist political project. This time we talk about why mutual aid is good for the people doing it.
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E43: Mutual Aid Logistics
First of a three part series about mutual aid. This episode deals with the logistics of managing mutual aid stuff, particularly around mutual aid funds that act as pools of money for a community.Example for individual project or person:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ClTaXdR5oyyx1hrivxJvqGSc77KAeWvwdoo-IQWHkmg/edit?usp=sharingExample for community: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l_ugGisnFxG769LRWBojAynhSjtXklYiK0LhsGkfKuc/edit?usp=sharingSupport the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantThere is no video version of this episode, but if you want to see our video episodes check...
E42: Carbon Credits
If a cow farts in a field and there's a techbro with a box to catch it, does it really produce greenhouse gases?References:Chay, F., Badgley, G., Martin, K., Freeman, J., Hamman, J., and Cullenward, D. (2022) 'Unpacking ton-year accounting', (carbon)plan, https://carbonplan.org/research/ton-year-explainer.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantThe video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/xADdzfSKTe0If you have a statistic or a chart you'd like us to talk about contact us.Email: StatisticallyInsignificantPod@protonmail.chTwitter: @StatInsigPodMastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@statisticallyinsignificantBluesky: https...
E41: Fatagories
We talk about how and why BMI sucks as a metric for either health or fatness, and other models for classifying fatness that actually reflect the needs and experiences of fat people.If you want to know more about relative risk statistics check out E19: Pregnancy Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dC4VRD3B8Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferencesnagualdesign (2021) 'BMI Chart', Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BMI_chart.pngRomero-Corral, A., Montori, V. M., Somers, V. K., Korinek, J., Thomas, R. J...
E40: Marking
Marking schemes are statistical objects and boy are they weird ones.
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The video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/2JuiaFzgbyE
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E39: Medical Device Failure Ft. Tom Bowers
We talk to Dr Tom Bowers about how medical devices fail in the body, and how that is translated to statistics that can help with early detection.Tom can be found at https://twitter.com/fancywookieeSupport the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:Sheffield, S. (2019). The Controversy Over Essure Birth Control. Women Leading Change: Case Studies on Women, Gender, and Feminism, 4(2).Cohen, D. (2011). Out of joint: the story of the ASR. Bmj, 342.Cohen, D. (2013). DePuy knew about hip implant's high failure rate three years before it was recalled. BMJ: British Medical Journal...
E38: KPIs
We talk about KPIs as instruments of measurement, class power structures, and how to be a bad capitalist if you can.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantThe video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/bwCvUp-hE-IIf you have a statistic or a chart you'd like us to talk about contact us.Email: StatisticallyInsignificantPod@protonmail.chTwitter: @StatInsigPodMastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@statisticallyinsignificantBart can be found @SnitchinOrwell on Twitter
E37: April's Fool
Grievance time!
E36: The Uber Pricing Model
Uber continues to make its pricing and pay models less transparent to drivers and passangers. Workers, as ever, are pushing back, and here are some ideas for how to do it.Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferences:The Rideshare Guy (2023) '2 Uber Drivers: Same Requests DIFFERENT PAY! You Won't Believe This!' 2nd March, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UADTiL3S67I.Helling, B. (2023) 'Your Complete Guide to Uber's SURGE pricing', Gigworker, Updated 16th Feb, https://gigworker.com/your-complete-guide-to-uber-surge-pricing/Möhlmann, M. and Henfridsson, O. (2019) 'What People Hate A...
E35: Wages, Prices, Inflation
If the cost of things is increasing faster than your wages, where is that money going?
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References
Stanford, J. (2023) 'Profit-Price Spiral: The Truth Behind Australia's Inflation', The Australia Institute, Centre for Future Work.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2022, December). Wage Price Index, Australia. ABS. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/wage-price-index-australia/latest-release.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2022, December). Wage Price Index, Australia methodology. ABS. https://www.abs.gov.au/methodologies/wage-price-index-australia-methodology/dec-2022.
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