Huntington-Klein, The Effect
Saturday sandbox · after Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Huntington-Klein, The Effect — theeffectbook.net, ch. 6-7 (causal diagrams), friendlier tone
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WEEK 22 · BASELINES BEATEN HONESTLY
Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.
There is an old trick in sales: compare your product with a weak competitor and you always win. Science has the same trick, and reviewers hunt for it. The honest move is to compare against the strongest published baseline, on the exact same splits, and to split proteins by family so the model cannot cheat by recognising a close cousin it saw in training (like a student who memorised last year's exam because this yea…
If you only do one thing this week: the family-split table
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By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can explain why my score dropped with family splits, and why the lower number is the one I publish.”
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