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Obsession with Regression

Personal blog · obsessionwithregression.blogspot.comdataculture

Obsession with Regression is a personal blog at obsessionwithregression.blogspot.com about data and culture. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Protecting Yourself Against Statistical Crimes”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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18mentions?
9HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2015

Most-linked posts?

  1. Protecting Yourself Against Statistical Crimes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-28
  2. A Statistical Argument for Not Being Nervous on First Dates
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple People to Be Innocent? as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Racial discrepancies in police shootings as a story · 11 points

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  3. Submitted Did I Get into MIT Because I Was a Girl? as a story · 6 points

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  4. Submitted How do fraternity men talk about women when there are no women around? as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted What an Engineer Looks Like as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Response to the Hacker News Comments on the Sexual Assault Model as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted No, Scott Alexander, the focus on men’s assaults isn't “a hit job” on men as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted What are your odds of being the tie-breaking vote in a national US election? as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Five things I learned from counting 900 engineers at Google I/O as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Should You Go Out for a Romantic Valentine's Dinner? Data from Yelp Reviews as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Why Has the Number of NYT Headlines About Trump Fallen by a Factor of Two? as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Protecting Yourself Against Statistical Crimes as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Protecting Yourself Against Statistical Crimes as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted A Statistical Argument for Not Being Nervous on First Dates as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted A Statistical Argument for Not Being Nervous on First Dates as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted A Tool for Mapping Drunk Tweets and Police Shootings as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Whether You're Crazy Depends on Whether You're Female as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted What Playing Age of Empires Taught Me About Programming as a story · 1 points

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