Danielle Navarro

similar piece to the last one but with a lot more ribbons; in a green/red palette against pale tan background

sometimes it gets very busy at the zeppelin interchange

minimalist procedural art piece with about 20 or so small ribbon shapes in a warm red/yellow palette arranged in geometric pattern that slightly resembles a twinkling star, against a black background. surround it are thousands of very tiny ribbon shapes like distant stars

starlight in #rstats

uh guys that's the imperial armory building on ghorman in season 2 of andor

Yeah it's really bad. If I weren't completely slammed with work right now I'd try to see if there's any documentation anywhere explaining wtf they actually did to produce the cross age group comparisons. In the absence of that, I'm pretty okay with people just writing off the result as nonsense

i'm sure they will be well-reasoned, measured, and respectful

Every time. They are so fucking exhausting

huge sympathies - take care of yourself ❤️‍🩹

amazing, thank you! i'll update on github later today, and we can chat sometime about future directions when we're both less exhausted!

I am trying my best not to feel bitter about IWD but not succeeding. I am starting to have the same feeling about it that I have about most Pride events - I'm not part of the demographic that it's intended to represent

btw, would you like me to add you as a contributor in the author list? i'd intended to ask prior to submitting v0.1 but as usual i was so tired i didn't get around to bringing it up

omg yes - i now realise i forgot to reply to your last text message. yes, let's tee up a time! i'm crazy busy at work right now but would love to catch up soon!

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This. I move in stats circles and everyone in that space is looking at this survey and openly disagreeing with the Guardian piece that went viral. But our voices don't carry as far as journalists, so the misinformation spreads anyway.

Huge thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on the initial version of this work (some of which I am yet to fully incorporate), but especially to @meghansharris.bsky.social who helped me push the package over the line by writing some tests I was too exhausted to write myself 💕

In more important spite-driven development news... sessioncheck is now on CRAN. At long last I now have something dead-simple and concrete I can point to next time I'm asked to put rm(list=ls()) in a script for no obvious reason

sessioncheck.djnavarro.net

Hm yeah. The more I think about this the stranger it sounds. If you adjust within-country for age demographics, Indonesia will absolutely have a higher Gen Z representation than Japan. But then if you aggregate adjusted-Indonesia and adjusted-Japan based on raw N... of course you get an artifact?

It just seems so messed up from every possible angle that you look at this thing. It doesn't seem like a great study design in the first place, compounded by terrible and possibly malicious reporting, just... awful at every level

Yeah. I saw that. I keep wondering... did the journalist who wrote the Guardian article not read the note, did they not understand what it means, or did they deliberately ignore it because it makes better clickbait?

Barchart showing the breakdown by country on the "obey" question. Countries with the highest endorsement are Indonesia, Malaysia, India (at around 50-60%. Countries with the lowest are Nederlands, Hungary, Sweden at around 4-6%

To my mind this screenshot I lifted from @tslumley.bsky.social's blog post is the key point. The cross-nation variability is so extreme that small age differences in sampling across countries (e.g., Indonesian respondents younger than Swedish) can induce a spurious "gen z are conservative" result

A small +1 on this from me. Crystal's article correctly notes that the cross-nation aggregation that The Guardian used in their "oooh scary genzzzzz" summary was an absurd and meaningless thing to do. I am unsure if that article was malicious or incompetent but either way, it was misleading.

From #rstats with love

As an aside, its somehow depressing that Playboy produces better journalism about trans lives than every major media outlet that I read

On the one hand of course there's no surprise here: spending any time at all on grindr as a trans woman will show you the core truth of this. On the other, the specifics of the interviews resonated pretty deeply. Being desired doesn't bring political liberation, but it makes life a little easier

abstract procedural art comprised of thousands of small sliver shapes oriented along three different axes, giving it a slightly cubist feel. the palette is orange, brown and light blue against a navy background

blood moon in #rstats

well, obviously they can't trust us to have meaningful thoughts or ideas about our own lives. that would be absurd. it might even end up with trans people getting to live joyful lives. it's the sacred mission of journalism to ensure that never happens

le sigh. writing a tiresome "omg the evil trannies would have transsssed me if i were a kid today" article in a major media outlet has become a cottage industry for transphobic gays. give it a rest mate

explaining to journalists that trans people have a thing called "being alive" which is as important to us as "have opinion in newspaper" is to them

in conclusion, the internet was a mistake

abstract procedural art in a kind of spherical shape, comprised of thousands of ribbons in yellow, orange, and black, against a blue background

making a note here, huge success

I have started to think that what happens with these things is that people half register that this is happening, and go "oh, that's not good", and then forget. Which does make sense, because everyone is overwhelmed, but it leads to a kind of nihilistic despair for trans folks who don't see any hope