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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2023
Tom Lehrer puts himself in the public domain—and here, for a limited time, are all his songs. (Really.)original ↗
4 Jan 2023
2 Jan 2023
2022
31 Dec 2022
Does the existence of widespread belief in political disinformation demonstrate that humans are not Bayesians?original ↗
30 Dec 2022
“Have you ever had the unsettling experience of going into a dungeon you’ve already done before, and you have to fight monsters you’ve already killed?”original ↗
29 Dec 2022
Journalist and historian vs. economists: Is the 2022 economics Nobel prize well deserved or awful?original ↗
27 Dec 2022
(an issue raised by a recent failed-science story:) The distinction between research that could be valid but just happens to be wrong, and junk science that never had a chanceoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2022
23 Dec 2022
I guess Gladwell couldn’t have afforded a fact-checker who could’ve told him that planes don’t take off in a tailwind.original ↗
21 Dec 2022
20 Dec 2022
“Lack of correlation between school mask mandates and paediatric COVID-19 cases in a large cohort”original ↗
14 Dec 2022
14 Dec 2022
14 Dec 2022
The easygoing relationship between computer scientists and null hypothesis significance testingoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
13 Dec 2022
Hey, what happened with this randomized controlled trial of “How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk”?original ↗
13 Dec 2022
12 Dec 2022
10 Dec 2022
BridgeStan: Stan model log densities, gradients, Hessians, and transforms in R, Python, and Juliaoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022
The more I thought about them, the less they seemed to be negative things, but appeared in the scenes as something completely new and productiveoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2022
Hey! Check out this short new introductory social science statistics textbook by Elena Llaudet and Kosuke Imaioriginal ↗
30 Nov 2022
WikiGuidelines: A new way to set up guidelines for medical practices to better acknowledge uncertaintyoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
Where does this quote come from? “I don’t trust anything until it runs. In fact, I don’t trust anything until it runs twice.”original ↗
28 Nov 2022
27 Nov 2022
A different Bayesian World Cup model using Stan (opportunity for model checking and improvement)original ↗
25 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022
Going for it on 4th down: What’s striking is not so much that we were wrong, but that we had so little imagination that we didn’t even consider the possibility that we might be wrong. (I wonder what Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman, Josh “hot hand” Miller, and other experts on cognitive illusions think about this one.)original ↗
20 Nov 2022
Malcolm “doesn’t know which way the airplane takes off” Gladwell and Matthew “can’t bring himself to copy the parts of the graph that don’t fit his story” Walker, together at last!original ↗
19 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022