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Daniel Oberski

@daob.nl

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Data science prof @ Utrecht. Incoming scientific director, Dutch national infrastructure for social sciences ODISSEI Latent variables, Structural Equation Models, Measurement error daob.nl | hds.sites.uu.nl | odissei-data.nl

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Daniel Oberski @daob.nl · 25/06/2024

Eurobarometer 38.1, 55.2, and 63.1. Provided without further comment.

Line graph showing the percentage of people believing "the Sun goes around the Earth" in 12 European countries, for the years 1992, 2001, and 2005. The averages for these years were about 10%, 30%, and 30%, respectively.

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Daniel Oberski @daob.nl · 04/06/2024

@michelenuijten.bsky.social I assume you're already looking into this, but just to let you know, I tried out ChatGPT and it coped perfectly well with the example on your website. Might be a bit worse at certain things, bit better on detecting non-standard ways of reporting. Prompt below

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Daniel Oberski @daob.nl · 16/01/2024

(spoiler: the "secret" is to tune only eta) The clickbaity intro obscures an important point: hyperparameters are not equally "tunable" (same goes for algorithms). This was addressed in Probst, @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social's excellent article www.jmlr.org/papers/volum... (Fig 3) Can recommend!

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