What is Born Curious?
A newsletter in which I write,
data reviews (I download public-use data files, analyze them, generate plots and tables, and then write an article about what I find), or
reviews of research paper(s) (I read one or more research papers, understand the statistical mumbo-jumbo, and write an article for popular consumption), or
book reviews, or
editorials without any data analysis.
What is Born Inquisitive?
“Born Inquisitive” was the name of my previous blog.
Who is the Author?
I have a master’s degree in statistics and worked as a statistician for two years. I worked on official statistics as a government contractor.
I used to want to be a researcher / scientist / scholar / subject-matter expert / someone who wears a tweed jacket with elbow pads and sits in front of a wall of books and knows a lot.
When that didn’t work out, I tried various career paths. One of the paths I tried was my short career as a statistician. It turns out, that isn’t all that much better than my previous higher-paying career, so I stopped.
However, as a consequence, I am above-average at doing #1 or #2 above. That is my value proposition on Substack.
Another consequence is that I (used to) have an academic writing style. Bear with me because I am intentionally trying to make my style more journalistic in Born Curious. Here come contractions, the active voice, most-common-synonym word choice, and single-clause sentences.
