Robert Chung
@rchung
Anti-social social scientist with low amusement threshold. When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
To be fair, I feel his pain. it's hard to believe, especially if you know me. There's a lot of "This thing? That guy? What ?!?" I was pretty skeptical too. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/scien...
Not comparable because these are *daily* not weekly deaths, and for all ages combined--but here's a chart for the period from 1-Jan-2000 to 31-Dec-2015.
I'm mostly retired now so I'm in charge of cleaning. Magali isn't completely happy with my cleanliness standard so she hired housekeepers to do some things where I'm (evidently) deficient. They came yesterday. I agree I haven't been doing this.
Well, I'm pretty tired after giving a two day intro to The Berkeley Way of Formal Demography, uh, the Berkeley Workshop on Formal Demography. #FormalDemography
Demographers come from many different fields but here's six with PhDs in demography. If a meteorite (or Boeing Starliner) had struck the house, that'd be a non-negligible fraction of us. Magali Barbieri, Carl Boe, Jorge Bravo, Josh Goldstein, @blqueiroz.bsky.social, and me.
It was data from the 2002 World Cup race in Montreal that led me to realize I could estimate aero drag on a bike. Today I was finally able to ride the route of that race. What a kick. I could never have imagined how well that turned out.