Regression to the Mean Girls

The Work Is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data

Regression to the Mean Girls

Show Notes

⁠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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