Karen Kubliski @karenkubliski - Tumblr Blog

Medical tests have two types of accuracy; the true positive rate and the true negative rate. (They are confusingly both described by terms that start with “S”.) Neither directly answers the question "If the test comes back positive, whats the chance I have the condition?” That’s the Positive Predictive Value. The Positive Predictive Value can be surprisingly low even for accurate tests.

#MedicalTests #FalsePositive #FalseNegative #PositiviePredictiveVale

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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His expressions in that last gif are so unacceptable and adorable and infuriating and smug and I hate his perfect stupid angel face guts.

Artemis tries valiantly to acquire the big Nerf ammo. (Is it big enough to call it a munition?)

#Ferret #Nerf #Stealing

Artemis and the toy bins.

#Ferret

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i love how Tom and Carrie are going full out “behold the majestic Gary”

and if you zoom in

majestic af

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Oh my god, this is beautiful.

I often wipe things with a damp microfiber cloth before cooking.

#Ferret #Cat #Cabinet

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REBLOG THE CHRISTMAS OTTER IN 10 SECONDS FOR BOUNTIFUL GIFTS AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS

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@holnnes

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The fact that this is so accurate makes me so mad

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THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH

THE NOVEL “DRACULA”

THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

THE DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH

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… Okay. I believe you. But like… how?

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NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 AS A CARD GAME MANUFACTURER AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS HAPPENED IN 1890 OR LATER

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WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT DRACULA WAS EARLIER WHAT THE FUCK

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YOU COULD WRITE A DRACULA FANFIC WHERE DRACULA TRAVELS TO JAPAN AND BUYS A PACK OF NINTENDO BRAND PLAYING CARDS AND IT WOULD BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. SAME DEAL FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES.

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No no no no no!

Don’t write fanfic!

Those things are in the public domain!

You can legally write, publish, and sell a Dracula book where Dracula travels to Japan and buys a pack of Nintendo brand playing cards!

Same deal for Sherlock Holmes!

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what if you write a book where dracula and sherlock holmes travel to japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of nintendo brand playing cards that they both wanted

Artemis investigates the toys the kids got out.

#Ferret

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was thinking about this also: don’t hide your child’s disability from the child themself, or pretend it doesn’t exist

one of my best friends went to an autistic school for 7 years, but no one ever actually explained to him what autism actually was! parents never talked about it! so he thought that when he went to high school he’d ‘grown out of it,’ whatever it was.

we kept running into situations where, for example, we’re sitting together and someone asks me why I’m flapping and I say “I’m stimming, I’m autistic,” or this friend hears me explain accommodation stuff to a new teacher. and he kept responding with surprise: “that’s an autism thing? is autism the reason we do that?” “yeah!” “oh wow, I thought I was just weird!”

so i’ve been trying to convince my friend for most of this year now that all this ‘unusual’ stuff that we do and difficulties we have are just our natural way of being, because of our neurotype and disability… and the reaction has consistently been relief. like “oh, that’s why I’m like this! it’s not the wrong way, it’s just the autistic way!”

if you act like your child’s disability doesn’t exist, it won’t actually stop existing. they will still be a disabled child, only now they will have no understanding of what that means. they’re going to feel confused and out-of-place at best; have their needs ignored and most probably going to push themselves to able-bodied neurotypical standards of functioning when they just cannot handle that, which is extremely unhealthy!

disability is not a bad word! it is not shameful! you gain nothing from pretending a disabled person in your life is not disabled at all.

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This is important. Refraining from talking about it ALSO doesn’t keep classmates and potential playmates from noticing it.

Dear Artemis, it scares me when you stick your head in there while the vacuum is on even though you've always been able to quickly pull your head back out.

#Ferret #Vacuum

Vacuums: cats are scared, ferrets are curious.

#Vacuum #Ferrets #Cats

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Once upon a time there was light in my life now there's only love in the dark. Because if it's still stuck in my head it better still be in yours, sir.

TURN AROUND BRIGHTEYES.