James_Miller comments on Open Thread, Jul. 27 - Aug 02, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I've just finished a solid first-draft of a post that I'm planning on submitting to main, and I'm looking for someone analytical to look over a few of my calculations. I'm pretty sensitive, so I'd be embarrassed if I posted something with a huge mistake in it to LW. The post is about the extent to which castration performed at various ages extends life expectancy in men, and was mainly written to inform people interested in life extension about said topic, though it might also be of interest to MtF trans people.
All of my calculations are in an excel spreadsheet, so I'll email you the text of the post, as well as the excel file, if you're interested in looking over my work. I'm mainly focused on big-picture advice right now, so I'm not really looking for someone to, say, look for typos. The only thing I'm really worried about is that perhaps I've done something mathematically unsavory when trying to crudely use mean age-at-death actuarial data from a subset of the population that existed in the past to estimate how long members of that same subset of the population might live today.
Being able to use math to build the backbone of a scientific paper might be a useful skill for any volunteers to have, though I don't suspect that any advanced knowledge of statistics is necessary. Thanks!
I can take a look, send me a PM if you like.
Thanks for the offer! I've just emailed Vaniver (since I already know him), and I'll re-evaluate how confident I feel about my post after I chat with him, and then send you a note if I think that I'm not quite where I want to be with the post by then.