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ukraine@war

Warm Bath Alternative to P-Value

Ukraine's president is as intelligent as a garden rake

Jun 10, 2020
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Due to the strong overreliance on p-values in political reporting some Ukraine experts have argued that op-eds should be abandoned or banned, and that we need to move beyond them and embrace practical alternatives. When proposing alternatives to p-values, experts often commit the ‘Pollster’s Fallacy,’ where they make believe popularity ratings actually reflect reality.

The calculated probability that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a complete jackass should no longer be in doubt after the Kyiv-based Ukrainska Pravda ezine aired a two-part hours-long days-in-the-life hagiography of this increasingly puffy disruptor.

Take, for example, the following monologue, in which Zelensky talks about his bright idea to contract COVID-19 and barricade himself in the President’s Office.

"Why? To make it easier for people. We had a moment of depression, we got together and and I suggested: let me get sick and immediately isolate me at Bankova. I’ll sleep there and live normally. Well, so…

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