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slow to implement or enforce policies to manage sloppy, majority AI-authored papers, reviewers can and should push back", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/10/when-journals-are-slow-to-implement-or-enforce-policies-to-manage-sloppy-majority-ai-authored-papers-reviewers-can-and-should-push-back/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T15:26:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cec-291a-713b-96d6-bc4e7887ca0e", "title": "Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/10/why-i-still-like-orwells-politics-and-the-english-language-essay-even-though-he-gets-some-of-the-linguistics-wrong/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T13:35:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-5bf1-71bf-add4-eab860a48a91", "title": "Living on the Edge: Aggressive mediocrity at the summit of America’s intellectual culture", "url": 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(And what about the Ariely-Armstrong-Enron number?)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/06/does-anyone-have-lower-jordan3-number-than-evans-boney/", "published_at": "2026-09-06T13:24:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b10e424c1e", "title": "OK, here’s a statistics problem for you, ripped directly from the headlines!", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/05/ok-heres-a-statistics-problem-for-you-directly-ripped-from-the-headlines/", "published_at": "2026-09-05T13:29:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b10ed01fa2", "title": "Update on U.S. government’s Soviet-style push for “gold standard science”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/04/update-on-u-s-governments-push-for-gold-standard-science/", "published_at": "2026-09-04T13:43:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b10f7011be", "title": "Update on “I don’t understand this paper claiming election fraud in 2024 in Pennsylvania”", "url": 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statistical or social scientific way of understanding how institutions lose the ability to accurately perceive their own situation?”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/26/do/", "published_at": "2026-08-26T13:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1170d77bd", "title": "Survey Statistics: more on SynthMargins and Bayes-Raking", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/25/survey-statistics-more-on-synthmargins-and-bayes-raking/", "published_at": "2026-08-25T20:00:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11784aa2b", "title": "Bayesian Workflow free pdf!", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/25/bayesian-workflow-free-pdf/", "published_at": "2026-08-25T13:00:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1186e865b", "title": "What contributions can academic statisticians make to sports analytics? (a discussion related to the launch of the new open-access Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/24/journal-of-statistics-and-data-science-in-sports/", "published_at": "2026-08-24T13:40:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1190094b5", "title": "Head to head on 125 St: The Jamaican beef patty battle!", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/23/head-to-head-on-125-st-the-jamaican-beef-patty-battle/", "published_at": "2026-08-23T22:19:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b119f93d38", "title": "To the three different people who sent me chatbot emails today", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/23/to-the-three-people-who-sent-me-chatbot-emails-today/", "published_at": "2026-08-23T20:45:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11a35582b", "title": "Failing upward, Norwegian style", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/23/failing-upward-norwegian-style/", "published_at": "2026-08-23T13:10:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11af844e3", "title": "This is one of the worst scientific papers I’ve ever seen.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/22/this-is-one-of-the-worst-scientific-papers-ive-ever-seen/", "published_at": "2026-08-22T13:32:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11afe704c", "title": "Here are the talks from StanCon 2026!", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/21/here-are-the-talks-from-stancon-2026/", "published_at": "2026-08-21T13:25:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11ba8b02f", "title": "My answer is No.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/20/my-answer-is-no/", "published_at": "2026-08-21T00:50:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11bc814bd", "title": "One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential, and what should these researchers had done ahead of time to see this?", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/20/we-couldnt-reproduce-their-findings-and-realized-that-it-was-all-driven-by-weird-data-from-uzbekistan/", "published_at": "2026-08-20T13:20:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11beba242", "title": "Why I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/19/why-i-am-so-against-volunteering-in-academia-ecology-edition/", "published_at": "2026-08-19T20:37:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11c300413", "title": "What does it mean when different articles published by different people on the same topic have nearly identical titles? (“A novel nutritional supplement reduces postprandial glucose response in healthy individuals in a randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover clinical study”)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/19/wh/", "published_at": "2026-08-19T13:50:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11ca7b9d8", "title": "Update on a regression discontinuity dispute: some asynchronous collaboration", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/18/update-on-a-regression-discontinuity-dispute-some-asynchronous-collaboration/", "published_at": "2026-08-19T02:01:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11d2c46ba", "title": "Survey Statistics: Modeling Complex Contingency Tables", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/18/survey-statistics-modeling-complex-contingency-tables/", "published_at": "2026-08-18T20:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11db70058", "title": "The improvement in political analysis in the past 25 years, as demonstrated by excellent demonstrations of statistical workflow from Elliott Morris, Nate Silver, and Eli Mckown-Dawson", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/18/modern-day-political-analysis-excellent-demonstrations-of-statistical-workflow-from-elliott-morris-nate-silver-and-eli-mckown-dawson/", "published_at": "2026-08-18T13:37:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11e3a3307", "title": "Jamaican me crazy yet again", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/17/jamaican-me-crazy-yet-again/", "published_at": "2026-08-18T01:08:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11ec3fa9d", "title": "Frequentism for Bayesians: He wants to teach frequentist methods to engineering students with a strong Bayesian background", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/17/he-wants-to-teach-frequentist-methods-to-engineering-students-with-a-strong-bayesian-background/", "published_at": "2026-08-17T13:05:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b11f22c95f", "title": "“How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/16/how-can-america-be-so-miserable-when-its-so-rich/", "published_at": "2026-08-16T13:03:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b120142b09", "title": "Inbox zero. Bloglag 365.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/15/inbox-zero-bloglag-365/", "published_at": "2026-08-15T13:00:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b12096d5cd", "title": "“Q collar” promoters have no shame, advertising their discredited research on social media using lying, cheating chatbots", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/14/q-collar-promoters-have-no-shame-advertising-their-discredited-research-on-social-media-using-lying-cheating-chatbots/", "published_at": "2026-08-14T13:11:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b120f6ff46", "title": "Answering some questions about statistics from a high school student", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/13/answering-some-questions-about-statistics-from-a-high-school-student/", "published_at": "2026-08-13T22:45:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b12127422f", "title": "7 1/2 Schools—mistakes were made", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/13/7-1-2-schools-mistakes-were-made/", "published_at": "2026-08-13T19:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1219aed41", "title": "Lots of detail on the continuing “Q collar” scandal and why we should probably be doing more coverage of that sort of science-adjacent medical scams and less on repulsively self-promoting but ultimately less harmful academic grifters.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/13/we-should-probably-be-doing-more-coverage-of-science-adjacent-medical-scams-like-the-q-collar-and-less-on-repulsively-self-promoting-but-ultimately-less-harmful-academic-grifters/", "published_at": "2026-08-13T13:53:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1224dd0b6", "title": "Bayesian computation meeting in France in May, 2027", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/12/bayesian-computation-meeting-in-france-in-may-2027/", "published_at": "2026-08-12T21:46:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b123063f13", "title": "Who were “The Makers of Public Policy” in 1965?", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/12/who-were-the-makers-of-public-policy-in-1965/", "published_at": "2026-08-12T13:03:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1236a716b", "title": "Survey Statistics: wanting workflow", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/11/survey-statistics-wanting-workflow/", "published_at": "2026-08-11T20:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b12442ddf1", "title": "Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s and Freudian psychiatrists in the 1950s", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/11/computer-scientists-today-are-like-economists-in-the-early-2000s-and-freudian-psychiatrists-in-the-1950s/", "published_at": "2026-08-11T13:27:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b1244ad7e3", "title": "I recommend this book on Applied Regression and Causal Inference", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/10/i-recommend-this-book-on-applied-regression-and-causal-inference/", "published_at": "2026-08-10T13:41:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5a0f-73f2-b734-57b124a5ec03", "title": "People keep sending me AI slop that they want me to post on the blog.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/09/people-keep-sending-me-ai-slop-that-they-want-me-to-post-on-the-blog/", "published_at": "2026-08-10T00:25:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-450174cb539b", "title": "“Sane-washing”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/09/sane-washing/", "published_at": "2026-08-09T13:46:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-4501752dd09f", "title": "“Denial, when you are not part of it, is actually a terrifying thing. One watches one’s fellow humans doing things that will damage themselves, while being wholly unable to help.”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/08/denial-when-you-are-not-part-of-it-is-actually-a-terrifying-thing-one-watches-ones-fellow-humans-doing-things-that-will-damage-themselves-while-being-wholly-unable-to-help/", "published_at": "2026-08-08T13:48:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-450175df0388", "title": "How to avoid the “clean data, clean model” trap when teaching statistics and data science", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/07/how-to-avoid-the-clean-data-clean-model-trap-when-teaching-statistics-and-data-science/", "published_at": "2026-08-07T13:30:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-450176d34767", "title": "The blessing of dimensionality", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/06/the-blessing-of-dimensionality/", "published_at": "2026-08-06T13:45:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-4501779bb23d", "title": "Manned Mars Mission Miscellanea", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/05/manned-mars-mission-miscellanea/", "published_at": "2026-08-05T13:05:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017877ac5b", "title": "Survey Statistics: structured MRP to smooth survey weights", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/04/survey-statistics-structured-mrp-to-smooth-survey-weights/", "published_at": "2026-08-04T22:48:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-4501787aec21", "title": "Walnutpie version 0.0.1 Released", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/04/walnutpie-version-0-0-1-released/", "published_at": "2026-08-04T20:42:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-450179337bfb", "title": "“In that era, undergrad males at Madison and elsewhere, had to take ROTC classes, and he kept intentionally failing them because he was very leftwing politically.”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/04/in-that-era-undergrad-males-at-madison-and-elsewhere-had-to-take-rotc-classes-and-he-kept-intentionally-failing-them-because-he-was-very-leftwing-politically/", "published_at": "2026-08-04T18:10:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017a2bdb95", "title": "Stand-up comedy—like teaching, and book writing—requires “a collaboration with the audience.”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/04/53426/", "published_at": "2026-08-04T13:05:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017abecf98", "title": "“Placebo tests deserve a model, not just a glance.”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/03/placebo-tests-deserve-a-model-not-just-a-glance/", "published_at": "2026-08-03T13:30:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017b44a818", "title": "What gets you is not what you don’t know but what you don’t know you don’t know.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/02/what-gets-you-is-not-what-you-dont-know-but-what-you-dont-know-you-dont-know/", "published_at": "2026-08-02T13:14:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017b69e6d1", "title": "Why quantitative understanding of effect sizes matters, even if all you care about is the presence of the effect", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/01/how-can-we-train-researchers-and-consumers-of-research-to-put-numbers-in-perspective-as-a-matter-of-course/", "published_at": "2026-08-01T13:38:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017b8c36fd", "title": "What do we learn from bestseller regressions?", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/31/what-do-we-learn-from-bestseller-regressions/", "published_at": "2026-07-31T13:38:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017c30a7b5", "title": "Posterior predictive checking is for non-Bayesians too!", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/30/posterior-predictive-checking-is-for-non-bayesians-too/", "published_at": "2026-07-30T13:58:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017c3814a8", "title": "“Over-coverage caught by pre-registration: 47 of 56 inside a stated 50% interval”", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/29/over-coverage-caught-by-pre-registration-47-of-56-inside-a-stated-50-interval/", "published_at": "2026-07-29T21:12:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017d01ff40", "title": "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: Richard Yates and the tragedy of agency", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/29/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness-richard-yates-and-the-tragedy-of-agency/", "published_at": "2026-07-29T13:29:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017d507ad3", "title": "Survey Statistics: equivalent models, equivalent weights (locally)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/28/survey-statistics-equivalent-models-equivalent-weights-locally/", "published_at": "2026-07-28T20:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017e4208c0", "title": "Selection effects can go both ways (for taxi drivers as well as the rest of us)", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/28/selection-effects-can-go-both-ways/", "published_at": "2026-07-28T13:20:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017e9953b9", "title": "He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/27/53408/", "published_at": "2026-07-27T13:05:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017ea76974", "title": "People sometimes talk about “the Jewish vote,” but what’s relevant is not really the Jewish vote or Jewish public opinion; it’s really about campaign contributions and the news media. Also similar with Mormons.", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/26/the-jewish-vote-is-not-about-the-jewish-vote-jewish-public-opinion-is-not-about-jewish-public-opinion/", "published_at": "2026-07-26T13:22:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017f292303", "title": "I don’t see journal review as a gatekeeping process that will keep erroneous articles from being published", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/25/i-dont-see-journal-review-as-a-gatekeeping-process-that-will-keep-erroneous-articles-from-being-published/", "published_at": "2026-07-25T13:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d240-b40a-71c7-9a60-45017ffd009e", "title": "How generic language shapes the development of social thought", "url": "https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/24/how-generic-language-shapes-the-development-of-social-thought/", "published_at": "2026-07-24T13:00:04+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to political pundits, but we’re not very good at nurturing the human capital they would need to correct their own mistakes.original ↗
26 Sept 2026
Postdoc hiring season at Flatironoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
They were trying to convince everybody to have 3 kidsoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
It’s fine to use computer-generated survey responses—if you don’t care about the data anyway!original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Here’s a causal inference problem: where did the estimate of $64 million come from in “Blake Lively Says She Suffered $64 Million Financial Fallout From Justin Baldoni Conflict . . .”?original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Survey Statistics: Fat Bear Week 2026original ↗
22 Sept 2026
“Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people”original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Do high school students have to work harder nowadays?original ↗
21 Sept 2026
How did it go, this prediction from ten years ago about Japanese fertility in 2026?original ↗
20 Sept 2026
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952original ↗
19 Sept 2026
Meritocracy to-morrow and meritocracy yesterday – but never meritocracy to-dayoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Scientific citations as an overwhelmed communication channeloriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
It’s satisfying to see the economics profession come around on some things (regression discontinuity analysis and so-called risk aversion)original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Pathsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Survey Statistics: ANOVAoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
“Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity” . . . not any more!original ↗
15 Sept 2026
The Washington Nationals are hiring!original ↗
15 Sept 2026
New York City Psychometrics Grouporiginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a studyoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
What’s happening with the models of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?original ↗
13 Sept 2026
Annals of hype: Did this discovery in 2012 mark “the discovery of the final laws of nature . . . a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the 17th century?”original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Why I don’t like highest posterior density (HPD) intervalsoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
“Belief” is not something you have; rather, it’s a relationship between thought and action.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
When journals are slow to implement or enforce policies to manage sloppy, majority AI-authored papers, reviewers can and should push backoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong)original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Living on the Edge: Aggressive mediocrity at the summit of America’s intellectual cultureoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Survey Statistics: Pew Research finds “No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls”original ↗
8 Sept 2026
Hey–here’s an R package for imputing Census data using iterative proportional fitting on available margins.original ↗
8 Sept 2026
“In the Weights”—an exclusive invitation just for you!original ↗
7 Sept 2026
Does anyone have a lower Jordan3 number than Evans Boney? (And what about the Ariely-Armstrong-Enron number?)original ↗
6 Sept 2026
OK, here’s a statistics problem for you, ripped directly from the headlines!original ↗
5 Sept 2026
Update on U.S. government’s Soviet-style push for “gold standard science”original ↗
4 Sept 2026
Update on “I don’t understand this paper claiming election fraud in 2024 in Pennsylvania”original ↗
3 Sept 2026
Updike and statistical writing; more on honesty and precisionoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
Confirmation bias in software testing, Walnutpie editionoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Metascience corner: What can we learn from 12 million empirical research results?original ↗
2 Sept 2026
Yale med school prof tells his postdocs: Work extra hours at my command or you’re no better than “the guy who charges me by the hour to cut my lawn.”original ↗
2 Sept 2026
Survey Statistics: logit shift and rakingoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
Updike’s kaleidoscope: Telling a life through a set of unconnected storiesoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate.original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Do children grow continuously or do they grow in fits and starts?original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Coyote vs. Acme (also, for free, my take on The Odyssey)original ↗
30 Aug 2026
“Why did ANOVA fall out of fashion?”original ↗
29 Aug 2026
What stories should we tell about science now?original ↗
28 Aug 2026
Where’s the Evel Knievel blockbuster biopic?original ↗
28 Aug 2026
The incredible shrinking SSRN pageoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far).original ↗
27 Aug 2026
Postdoc and doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finlandoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
(1) “Do you think the culture of research has genuinely changed since the replication crisis became widely discussed, or has it mostly generated new compliance rituals around pre-registration and open data while leaving the underlying incentive structure intact?, (2) Regarding Columbia University, “is there a statistical or social scientific way of understanding how institutions lose the ability to accurately perceive their own situation?”original ↗
26 Aug 2026
Survey Statistics: more on SynthMargins and Bayes-Rakingoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
Bayesian Workflow free pdf!original ↗
25 Aug 2026
What contributions can academic statisticians make to sports analytics? (a discussion related to the launch of the new open-access Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports)original ↗
24 Aug 2026
Head to head on 125 St: The Jamaican beef patty battle!original ↗
23 Aug 2026
To the three different people who sent me chatbot emails todayoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
Failing upward, Norwegian styleoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
This is one of the worst scientific papers I’ve ever seen.original ↗
22 Aug 2026
Here are the talks from StanCon 2026!original ↗
21 Aug 2026
My answer is No.original ↗
21 Aug 2026
One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential, and what should these researchers had done ahead of time to see this?original ↗
20 Aug 2026
Why I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition)original ↗
19 Aug 2026
What does it mean when different articles published by different people on the same topic have nearly identical titles? (“A novel nutritional supplement reduces postprandial glucose response in healthy individuals in a randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover clinical study”)original ↗
19 Aug 2026
Update on a regression discontinuity dispute: some asynchronous collaborationoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
Survey Statistics: Modeling Complex Contingency Tablesoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
The improvement in political analysis in the past 25 years, as demonstrated by excellent demonstrations of statistical workflow from Elliott Morris, Nate Silver, and Eli Mckown-Dawsonoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Jamaican me crazy yet againoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Frequentism for Bayesians: He wants to teach frequentist methods to engineering students with a strong Bayesian backgroundoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
“How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?”original ↗
16 Aug 2026
Inbox zero. Bloglag 365.original ↗
15 Aug 2026
“Q collar” promoters have no shame, advertising their discredited research on social media using lying, cheating chatbotsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
Answering some questions about statistics from a high school studentoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
7 1/2 Schools—mistakes were madeoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
Lots of detail on the continuing “Q collar” scandal and why we should probably be doing more coverage of that sort of science-adjacent medical scams and less on repulsively self-promoting but ultimately less harmful academic grifters.original ↗
13 Aug 2026
Bayesian computation meeting in France in May, 2027original ↗
12 Aug 2026
Who were “The Makers of Public Policy” in 1965?original ↗
12 Aug 2026
Survey Statistics: wanting workfloworiginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s and Freudian psychiatrists in the 1950soriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
I recommend this book on Applied Regression and Causal Inferenceoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
People keep sending me AI slop that they want me to post on the blog.original ↗
10 Aug 2026
“Sane-washing”original ↗
9 Aug 2026
“Denial, when you are not part of it, is actually a terrifying thing. One watches one’s fellow humans doing things that will damage themselves, while being wholly unable to help.”original ↗
8 Aug 2026
How to avoid the “clean data, clean model” trap when teaching statistics and data scienceoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2026
The blessing of dimensionalityoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Manned Mars Mission Miscellaneaoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
Survey Statistics: structured MRP to smooth survey weightsoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Walnutpie version 0.0.1 Releasedoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
“In that era, undergrad males at Madison and elsewhere, had to take ROTC classes, and he kept intentionally failing them because he was very leftwing politically.”original ↗
4 Aug 2026
Stand-up comedy—like teaching, and book writing—requires “a collaboration with the audience.”original ↗
4 Aug 2026
“Placebo tests deserve a model, not just a glance.”original ↗
3 Aug 2026
What gets you is not what you don’t know but what you don’t know you don’t know.original ↗
2 Aug 2026
Why quantitative understanding of effect sizes matters, even if all you care about is the presence of the effectoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
What do we learn from bestseller regressions?original ↗
31 Jul 2026
Posterior predictive checking is for non-Bayesians too!original ↗
30 Jul 2026
“Over-coverage caught by pre-registration: 47 of 56 inside a stated 50% interval”original ↗
29 Jul 2026
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: Richard Yates and the tragedy of agencyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
Survey Statistics: equivalent models, equivalent weights (locally)original ↗
28 Jul 2026
Selection effects can go both ways (for taxi drivers as well as the rest of us)original ↗
28 Jul 2026
He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse.original ↗
27 Jul 2026
People sometimes talk about “the Jewish vote,” but what’s relevant is not really the Jewish vote or Jewish public opinion; it’s really about campaign contributions and the news media. Also similar with Mormons.original ↗
26 Jul 2026
I don’t see journal review as a gatekeeping process that will keep erroneous articles from being publishedoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2026
How generic language shapes the development of social thoughtoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
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