Regression to the Mean Girls

⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠ and ⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠ return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues.

Check out the full analysis here: ⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠

Links to content we chat about on the episode:

• ⁠Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr]⁠
• ⁠Lucy's other Severance analyses⁠
• ⁠Dunnet⁠
• ⁠Radial plot of who is speaking in Severance ⁠

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Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah analyzes 45 recent romance novels to find out how different romance tropes affect the timing of the couple’s first kiss.

Check out the full analysis here: https://regressiontothemeangirls.com/

Links to content we chat about on the episode:

• Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve
• Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
• Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming
• What is the lipstick index?

Follow along on instagram:

@regressiontothemeansgirls