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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2022
“If you could invite 5 authors (dead or alive) to a dinner party – who would they be and why?”original ↗
6 Sept 2022
“Which user?”: When chunking your math and your code, what seems thickerer depends on where you’re coming from.original ↗
4 Sept 2022
3 Sept 2022
1 Sept 2022
The latest scientific fraud story: As is so often the case, people had been warning us about this guy for a long time but the people in charge weren’t listening.original ↗
28 Aug 2022
What rule did Louis Menand use to select what went into his book on U.S. “cold war” culture of 1945-1965?original ↗
27 Aug 2022
“Is there any heuristic we might use to identify wholly inappropriate stats and flag questionable papers?”original ↗
26 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022
I agree with Dean Eckles that this study, “Effects of Political versus Expert Messaging on Vaccination Intentions of Trump Voters,” is too noisy to be useful. When will we reach the point where researchers can catch this sort of problem with their own designs, rather than just jumping in, gathering data, and inappropriately drawing conclusions from random patterns that happen to be “statistically significant” in the data?original ↗
23 Aug 2022
21 Aug 2022
20 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022
Some concerns about the recent Chetty et al. study on social networks and economic inequality, and what to do next?original ↗
16 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022
At last! Incontrovertible evidence (p=0.0001) that people over 40 are older, on average, than people under 40.original ↗
8 Aug 2022
7 Aug 2022
“The scandal isn’t what’s illegal, the scandal is what’s legal”: application of Kinsley’s rule to scienceoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2022
Solution to that little problem to test your probability intuitions, and why I think it’s poorly statedoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
Can some major media outlet please give David Weakliem a regular column, as soon as possible?original ↗
1 Aug 2022
This journal is commissioning a sequel to one of my smash hits. How much will they pay me for it? You can share negotiation strategies in the comments section.original ↗
31 Jul 2022
30 Jul 2022
28 Jul 2022
26 Jul 2022
26 Jul 2022
24 Jul 2022
A professional writing coach gets GPT-3 to write an entire five-paragraph essay, complete with fake references!original ↗
23 Jul 2022
“Predicting consumers’ choices in the age of the internet, AI, and almost perfect tracking: Some things change, the key challenges do not”original ↗
21 Jul 2022
If this study is valuable at all, it’s for the data. If the data aren’t available, it’s pretty much useless.original ↗
19 Jul 2022
What happens to the Wall Street Journal’s reputation when they publish a regular column by someone associated with fraudulent research?original ↗
17 Jul 2022
The “Mapping the Terrain” survey of students, teachers, and parents in majority Muslim societies:original ↗
15 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022
Don’t go back to Rockville: Possible scientific fraud in the traffic model for a highway project?original ↗
13 Jul 2022
Clearing up confusions about the interpretation of logistic regression coefficients on the probability scaleoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2022
Gaurav Sood’s review of the book Noise by Kahneman et al.: In writing about noise in human judgment, the authors didn’t wrestle with the problem of noise in behavioral-science research. But behavioral-science research is the product of human judgment.original ↗
10 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022
Consequences are often intended. And, yes, religion questions in surveys are subject to social desirability bias.original ↗
7 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022
Solving inverse problems using Bayesian inference with FFT in Stan, from Python . . . this example has it all!original ↗
6 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022
3 Jul 2022
Here’s what the highest salary of any university president in America was in 1983 in 2022 dollars: $342,000.original ↗
1 Jul 2022
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29 Jun 2022
28 Jun 2022
How much should we trust assessments in systematic reviews? Let’s look at variation among reviews.original ↗
26 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022