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Obinoscopy:
What is Biostatistics? The name actually gives it away. It's simply a field in medical science that makes use of Statistics in solving medical problems. Most people in the medical field do not like mathematics, so it's understandable that many people in the medical field dread Biostatistics.

This is unfortunate as Biostatistics should not be dreaded but loved. This is because Biostatistics is very empirical. We use it in our day to day medical practice without even knowing it. I think the reason why Biostatistics seems difficult is because we allow the non-medical statisticians/ mathematicians to intimidate us with their strange equations. I think its high time we, those in the medical field, take charge of Biostatistics and develop it at the pace with which we understand and can relate with.

This thread is for all lovers of Biostatistics, especially those in the medical field. Biostatistics is a very budding field with lots of prospects. It's a very important tool used in Public Health (especially in Epidemiology), but it can also be used in other aspects of medicine. This thread is meant to be educational, but is also intended to be career oriented as well. Also general chats, questions, comments, jokes, etc. are welcomed as long as they are biostatistics-related.

That’s true but a good advanced mathematical backing would help in psychiatry (especially when it comes to understanding the different forms of bipolarity). The fundamentals of mixed-mania (purple), mania (red), (severe) depression (blue/indigo), O.C.D. (purple-lite) and schizophrenia (and the corresponding more exact pharmaceutical regimes best-suited to each phenotypic case) would be far-better-understood with a bit of calculus application (even if it means having shrinks study a bit of Kumon maths). Kraepelin really tried but his lack of interest in the most essential mathematical tools needed to understand manic-depressive insanity stopped him reaching the fullest picture (as brilliant as he was overall), especially in regard to mixed episodes (which he really did try to elucidate in empirical terms and definitely managed on his ordained-orthodox-groupings descriptive standpoint). Mathematical application could be applied thereafter in some sort of public-health context to underpin the overarching cultural/behavioural-and-spiritual patterns of the world. There’s so much clear manifestation of the relevance of all that in Igboland alone (perhaps especially). Subconscious study of it is some people’s very life essence, even.

litigator:
Any INFJ here? Either an A or a T?

Holla if you need me.

The A or the T doesn’t matter if you’re not a prospective economist and trying to figure out how assertive you’ll be with financial goals on-job. Otherwise that dichotomy ain’t worth paying much attention to. Everyone’s a little assertive and a little turbulent, whatever their gender, race, sexual orientation (dare-I-say-am) and whatnot.

shortIGBOman:
Emeka, e shock you abi?


Igala Amaka

I really don’t mind the Igalas (I’m maternally once-removed from an Awka village that has a certain noteworthy linkage with ndu Igala and my maternal grandma spoke Igala most of her life, and her mum was from Nsukka so you can imagine) but rich they are not, not inherently for Naija. Let’s just say the truth, abeg.

Jokerman:
Oloyinbo ofo

Even Elon Musk dey watch ball

Let him watch. Elon Musk doesn’t help me with Sunday rice prep., nor does he share any of his riches with me.

He might watch football in passing but someone like him has many, many other things that occupy his mind (and money to make). He’s not really trying to be a one-sided Nairaland/Anfield/Crystal-Palace/Agbero 042-United F.C. aggressor/hooligan (and I say that as someone who’s far from a particular fan of the autistic baby-white-supremacist he is).

Paxxcarl:
seek help broski

I think you’re the one who needs help. Footie-obsession isn’t healthy.

AllDModsAreMaad:
Don't be a du nce. The question is cheap to you because you know it.
They might have studied him and the kind of life he lives i.e his passions, likes etc., before asking that question.

I watch football and I'm a Liverpool fan. Unlike before that I watch football every weekend, even weekdays, I watch football occasionally these days, sometimes once in months and na finals OR top matches involving my favorite club. I get things to do with those times, but that doesn't mean those that doesn't watch it are less man.

There is a question you will be asked that you can't answer that is cheap to another person.

Agreed. I’m a reds-fan (within the perimeters of the decidedly-vague interest I have in the game in the first instance) as well but I’d rather obsess over things that actually matter to me on a more personal level (or at least make my bank-balance fatter) if I want/ed to push whatever interests of mine dey to such extreme limits.

Some of the boringly-unhealthy uber football-enthusiasts who vilify guys who just aren’t about the footie game are tiny from head to dick to toe (which is even whatever) and just all-round beardless tenors at their physiologically-gruffest. A 6”6 (or at least solid 5”10) man with beautifully-well-rounded, lush facial hair and a proper bass voice who has no time for 90 minutes of pig-skin-kicking is no-less ‘masculine’ or likely to be gay than his wimpy-but-coincidentally-football-obsessed counterpart. Just like women who choose not to marry or have kids are no less beautiful for their propose and deserving of regard as an adult woman than the ones who do choose that conventional familial path. Linking that point to the thread-title women football-enthusiasts are an admirable force to be reckoned with because they truly-know their stuff but without obnoxiously-imposing or honing in too much on footie alone but the average male on account of that very-intrinsically lower level of emotional intelligence oversteps serious boundaries when it comes to other people’s interests, by way of assuming that they’ve gotta be fellow football-freaks to be in possession of a functional dick. Why would any of that nonsense matter to you if you ain’t trying to suck them? What good has ever come from speculating about the sexuality of people you’re not claiming/even-supposed to be attracted to?

Paxxcarl:
Like how can you not like football or know the basics of the sport as a guy

Does having that knowledge make your bank balance any juicier? Is jollof rice shy sweeter for following Rolando like a virtual ghost-halk, hm? Does it make one pass exams? Does it give you the same level of enjoyment as a spot of Arizona kush or glass of Havana (na-wa for you if it does)?

Judolisco:
Na all dis bros wey dey watch big brother naija

I preferred Big Brother U.K. in its prime. Sha.

Joycehappy:
please sir help me with little amount to buy food to eat things are really tough the hunger is really much I beg any amount you can spare I ll appreciate the hunger is unbearable

I feel for your plight but the fact that he obviously won’t be a football-better/gambler doesn’t mean he’s balling in it or not struggling, himself. But you can try asking people on here who give off more well-to-do vibes. See where that takes you.

I help someone helps you soon. I would but I’m pretty low myself at the minute. Hopefully in the future.

spencekat:
Not all football lovers are gamblers o

And thank God for that. If everyone was a gambling thug/hooligan the world would be in disarray. What’s this obsession with moulding everyone to be just as fanatical about a game as you to prove that they have a dick you’re not even going to be looking at if you’re not puff/on the down-low about?

Obinoscopy:
He might not also know which continent Spain or Croatia is located

Spain and Croatia are known and used for more than just football.

boydem*

caprini1:
[b]How can anyone not love football?[/b]If you see me and my senior brother analysing football,clubs,and games during Christmas holidays with my cousins from all over the world in our village ehn...nothing sweet pass am.

Because not everyone’s into exactly-the-same stuff as you and your mandem.

EgunMogaji2:
If you even talk too much football on my TL na straight block. I’ve muted all football clubs.

Only exception is IICC Shooting Stars.

Gotcha. Some guys just want to talk anime (which by itself is fine, I suppose, even if I’m not an anime-freak, per se). Some just want to talk football. Others just want to talk cars, business expansion, gym and hustle-hustle. All them-dem bore the life out of me (even if the uber business-enthusiasts are renowned Anambra umunwoke-beanyi). I’m not interested in people who bang on and on about the same thing or things over and over again and try and shame people for not having exactly the same vis-à-vis interests as they happen to.

INDUSTRIALFAN:
I don’t watch football. It doesn’t make me less of a man. Wtf do you mean by you don’t believe there are still men who don’t watch football?

Men who are absolutely-obsessed with football at their big age tend to have a very narrow scope of interests outside of that and very one-sided idea of what is-and-isn’t masculine. They’re also quick to label any other enduring interest (other than body-counting like a co-incidentally-straight escort not getting paid to cheat and maybe anime) as unhealthy/neurotic.

LienwaltAbel:
Maybe he has better things to do with his life. After all, most of those fools doing banters, and going to viewing centres. Aren't most of them jobless and hopeless? Abeg. I watch football, but making it seem like the end all and be all is extremely foolish.

Right. I like sports (and vide/computer games at that, for my sins) but in moderation. I have my own life and things that are personal to me to think about as well and 7 times out of 10 I’d much rather be thinking of them.

Fred166:
As in eeh.

Bro let me shock you. There are still men out there who still don't know the answer. YES!

I can't believe some men don't know nothing about football.

I can’t believe some men don’t know anything about real life.

Football’s one hell of a game but it’s still only a game.

mariahAngel:
Men like that are usually very boring.
It takes passion to like any sport.



I'm quite sure it was the first question.

Boring blokes are the mandem who are so one-sidedly interested (often to the point of boring obsession) in footie that you can’t, even for a second, turn their attention to the things in life what actually matter.

Football is literally a game.

People have different personalities and interests. Some are too intellectual to want to pay attention to common activities/games (which to the lofty intellectual are trivial and childish). Others have rich inner recesses that are wholly-sufficient (and then some) for entertainment. Others just don’t care. So far as it doesn’t add money to your bank account/you no-be the one dey-play am, interest na very optional indeed.

shortIGBOman:
Emeka, e shock you abi?


Igala Amaka

Lol.

shortIGBOman:
The entire Anambra is IGALA ancestral State, half of Enugu is also Igala. Most of those wealthy people you see as Igbo are actually Igala. The IGALA in Anambra and Enugu are actually richer than the Igbo who live in those areas

The reason why the Igala embrace Igbo language is that, Igbo language is the language of trade in that Region. Just like Hausa is that language of trade in the North. Which forced other minorities in that region to speak Hausa.

Igala? Rich? L.M.A.O., still.

Why would anyone even do that?

Heartbreaking.

That’s close to the overall world order of greatness and in any case it goes without saying that Nigeria is number one in Africa. Being from Mozambique must be tough.

Guderian:
No probz miss/mrs.

I seriously need to change my username. These useless notifications ain’t it.

AbakalikiPress:
Hhaha, this one you posted is the "Modernist" version of Igbo territory.
Ethnologists are not stupid.

Again, look at ANOTHER map of TRUE speakers of Igbo. Not political Igbo.

Again it agrees with all my points. Northern Enugu - OUT. Ebonyi - OUT, Anioma - OUT, Arochukwu - OUT
Again, let me mention that it isn't accurate, but it is close.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4161/34503715495_7c29a0ae0d_b.jpg

In rivers, only the Omumma general area is there. Ikwerre, Ekpeye and Etche are out.

Enuani (the core/Asaba-lite Delta IGBOs, not those Edo-western Igboid hybrids called Kwales and Edoid Ikas) are more in than many places in the East going by purity of dialect. No offence or shade intended whatsoever (some of the most awesome people I know are Ika) but I can understand Ika people seeing themselves as not Igbo but Edoid-Igboid, because in many ways that’s what they are.

Sammy07:
Akamu --- pap --- Ogi

Is also Yoruba food.

Ta. What kind of lie?

bigfrancis21:
Impressive. We need more content like this.

I think Nollywood should make an Igbo seasonal movie featuring non-Igbos who speak Igbo like this man, to showcase the beauty of the language and to encourage native Igbos to be proud of the language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xh-WlC8kv0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzzRKGs2f24


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EsV7O-8kaQ

Where have you been, Mr Ukwu-DC ocha, hm?

Northernblood8:
Sad News indeed. Donald Trump is a man i respect alot

For what?

It’s sad in and of its own merits (and also the fact that she had the misfortune of being married to such a dunce in the first place). Her connection to Mr Trump per se isn’t that important considering they divorced 31 years ago.

R.I.P. to the lady herself.

falcon01:
I am an INFJ.. sometimes I can be ENFP it Depends. but everything written there is 100 percent me and I soo much hate it but there's nothing I can do that's just me

INFJs and ENFPs are each other’s shadows (none of that stuff is 100% - there are all sorts of shadow and subconscious groupings every type has). So you’re definitely not alone. Some people do kind of fluctuate between the two on a semi-conscious level (especially between Se and Si - that’s often the key break between the two of them in the first place) so that’s just kind of the way it is (and they apparently have wonderful relationship comparability, more than any other type-pairing). I feel like the ENFP persona is used as a common archetype for black people {from pensive, realistic-but-not-particularly-sociable Igbo businessmen to accommodating and tough funny black [akata] women doing subtly-comedically-toned, half-serious bits in Louisiana} so the quirkiness that stands out more with white-and-Asian (not that I really know many Asian ENFPs at all) ENFPs just passes for a certain subtle pragmatic innovation (especially with Igbo men)/humour in black communities. That’s why a lot of black ENFPs really do present like INFJs, especially to people who haven’t coincidentally been made cognisant of the fact that “extrovert” and “introvert” in the Myers-Briggs-ian context hardly have anything to do with how outgoing or socially-reticent/antisocial (asocial) someone is at all (at least not in direct fundamentals).

Where are you at with all this now?