S8E02 Lost in Standardization

Quantitude by Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

Sep 8, 202637:56Science & Medicine

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick have a loosely organized discussion about metrics, including the pros and cons of raw versus standardized scales and the advantages of having multiple metrics for the same effect....

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