Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 6hThis was so fun to to! And finally puts to rest the long lasting issue that has fractured society for so long - do different colored marshmallows actually taste different?? 073
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 15hstatic.klipy.comRumpelstiltskin: All Magic Comes With A PriceAlt: Rumpelstiltskin: All Magic Comes With A Price 010
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 15hSee more details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/06-the... And listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7mcX... 130
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 15h🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with @mattansb.msbstats.info about a marshmallow test (no, not that one!) This ep has everything! Bayesian models! Food science! A twist at the end! Listen wherever you listen to podcasts! 2205
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanDr. Adam Stein @astein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sophisticated statistics can produce extremely precise nonsense when the design fails to identify the causal mechanism. 0298
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What a bummer that our reality has shaped up to be even worse than Philip K Dick imagined 😬😬😬 110
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026static.klipy.comPacha's Perfect OK GestureAlt: Pacha's Perfect OK Gesture 030
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not any more! Give me deterministic or give me deathhhhh - Patrick Henry, probablystatic.klipy.comJonah Hill NoALT: Jonah Hill No 120
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanThomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The polite term "flawed" is part of the problem. Flawless trials are pretty rare (everything in clinical trials is simple but the simplest thing is difficult) This study wasn't just flawed, it was seriously misleading and implausible 1152
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wow, a whole class worth of misleading data viz in one chart!static.klipy.comChris Pratt as Andy Dwyer's Shocked ReactionAlt: Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer's Shocked Reaction 0110
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The eternal question in data is "what is the denominator" and man does Gemini make silly choices. Asked how common an injury is, one might assume I meant *in people* but am given two rates: - % of injury among all hamstring injuries - % of injury among those who have half of the injury 🤷♀️ 1141
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My husband and I too! He also reminded me that we actually started it in 2015 to figure out what the hype was about and had to stop after an upsettingly nonchalant dialogue about assault ..ick. 120
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026some of my finest stat-comm work 🤣https://bsky.app/profile/lucystats.bsky.social/post/3lo2japgpxk2d 011
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh yes! Looks just like those, probably where our prof got the idea 😅static.klipy.comBatman Responds to the Bat-SignalALT: Batman Responds to the Bat-Signal 010
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Had so much fun chatting with @lucystats.bsky.social and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about gnarly real world data wrangling — from elections to EHRs and beyond! Show link below! Meanwhile, I’m live-posting of my latest civic data eng sidequests here bsky.app/profile/emil... 1102
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Get the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/05-rie... And give it a listen here (or wherever you listen to podcasts!): open.spotify.com/episode/0QKf...regressiontothemeangirls.comElection Data Web Scraping – Regression to the Mean Girls 010
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social about a deep dive into election data! We chat data quality! Headless browser automation! Connections to EHR data! It’s great. 2224
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026like this, I think? But (if I understand the gist!) yes, I keep seeing this in my classes where when I try to break things under most reasonable conditions I have trouble 😆, most recently in linear regression, prior to that, complete case analyses when only missing covariates 🙈 000
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ooh I'm excited to look more closely, from a quick skim, we did these sims in grad school and its for baseline probs much less than 0.2 (or > 0.8) where you see the big differences (that classic batman shape 😂) dug out this ancient artifact: lucy.shinyapps.io/BinomialCove... 210
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Monkey island ♥️ Did you see Ron Gilbert is doing another Thimbleweed park? 120
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I usually can suspend disbelief enough for fun sci fi things but for some reason once infinity enters the chat I usually tap out 🤣 so I almost tapped out this season but glad I didn’t! 010
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I do think the next two eps will be about that (from reading between the lines comments from one of the writers on Reddit 😂) which will hopefully be good! 110
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026expecting more like actually infinite possibilities and I feel like this season has been stuck in finite ones? I don’t fully understand the replicating rules but if there are so many Jasons why aren’t there just as many families for him to reunite with, why was there just the one? 110
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is so interesting! That isn’t how I saw it, to me it seemed more like an exploration of grief & acceptance that felt really grounding. But the many versions of one person is interesting I think I’ve had the opposite reaction this season where my (limited!!) multiverse understanding would be 120
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think I did too (although I am a slow processor 😅) 130
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 21/09/2026Possibly the best gift I ever received (from @winstonchang.bsky.social) 0172
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also featuring tidy data brass knuckles…in case of emergency 🤣 161
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Check out how he did it here: regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/04-wes... And give it a listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/2qMP...regressiontothemeangirls.comThe Art of Web Scraping Art – Regression to the Mean Girls 120
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with @hadley.nz about an over-engineered solution to purchase some beautiful art! 2163
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christine Zhang analyzed 415 episodes of Law & Order to answer the question: "How long does it actually take in Law & Order land for the criminal justice system to work, compared with how long it takes in reality?" @christinezhang.bsky.social regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... 1226
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanChristine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I had an amazing time talking w/ @lucystats.bsky.social @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about my longrunning Law & Order obsession on Regression to the Mean Girls!! Check out my analysis of the Law & Order timeline ⚖️👩🏻⚖️ regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...creators.spotify.comThe Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang by Regression to the Mean GirlsChristine Zhang (New York Times) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: regression... 1185
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ah that’s true!! A callback coming 😂static.klipy.comFreerealms FRS Marshmallow CharacterALT: Freerealms FRS Marshmallow Character 010
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls we interview @christinezhang.bsky.social (@nytimes.com ) who takes us down a delightful rabbit hole of Law & Order theories on the comfort of competence & speed of justice ⚖️ regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/03-law... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...creators.spotify.comThe Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang by Regression to the Mean GirlsChristine Zhang (New York Times) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: regression... 021
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026🎙️ Regression to the Mean Girls Ep 2 is up! In which I share a deep dive on Severance data 😏 regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/02-mys... open.spotify.com/episode/79hj...open.spotify.comThe Work Is Mysterious and Important: Severance DataRegression to the Mean Girls · Episode 150
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Thank you 😂static.klipy.comMean Girls: I Know RightAlt: Mean Girls: I Know Right 020
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🎙️ New Podcast! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I are launching Regression to the Mean Girls where we go way too deep into silly data side quests! In our first episode Sarah deep dives on time to first kiss in romance novels! open.spotify.com/episode/73wC... regressiontothemeangirls.comopen.spotify.comRomance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across TropesRegression to the Mean Girls · Episode 1219
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Thank you to everyone who came & for all the great discussion after! You can find: 🎞️ my slides here: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/asa_joi... 📄 our article here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.07739 061
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I wrote a bit on “doing your own research” to share with friends & family! Let me know what you think (and anything I should add!) theconversation.com/how-to-do-yo...theconversation.comHow to do your own online health research like a scientist – a biostatistician’s step-by-step guideHere’s how to sift through complicated studies without getting overwhelmed. 051
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanThe Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 05/08/2026In a time of conflicting messages, how can you find reliable health evidence? The Conversation (@theconversation.com) has published some good tips on doing your own research on your health 👇️ theconversation.com/how-to-do-yo...theconversation.comHow to do your own online health research like a scientist – a biostatistician’s step-by-step guideHere’s how to sift through complicated studies without getting overwhelmed. 121
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanTom Langen @calocitta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A short, good common-sense guide to doing your own research about health topics.theconversation.comHow to do your own online health research like a scientist – a biostatistician’s step-by-step guideHere’s how to sift through complicated studies without getting overwhelmed. 111
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It gets better!! ♥️static.klipy.comJennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen's SaluteALT: Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen's Salute 110
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’ll be talking about Symmetric Vaccine Efficacy (a collab with @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & Michael Hudgens) this morning! #JSM2026 📍 253 C ⏰ 9:50a 🎞️ docs.google.com/presentation...docs.google.com2026-jsmSymmetric Vaccine Efficacy Lucy D’Agostino McGowan Department of Statistical Sciences Wake Forest University Interpretable Estimation and Inference for Vaccine Trials 020
Reposted by Lucy D’Agostino McGowanMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026BREAKING The R Core Team just awarded the prestigious Rousseuw Prize in statistics, stats equivalent of Nobel Prize 🏆 🏆🏆🏆 #rstats A team effort over many years suitably recognized 18913