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Andrew Gelman

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2022

Example of inappropriate use of causal language from observational dataoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
High-intensity exercise, some new newsoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
A garland of retractions for the Ohio State Department of Chutzpah Cancer Biology and Geneticsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2022
Kaiser Fung’s review of “Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life” (and a connection to “Evidence-based medicine eats itself”)original ↗
22 Jun 2022
Imperfectly Bayesian-like intuitions reifying naive and dangerous views of human natureoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2022
“Data Knitualization: An Exploration of Knitting as a Visualization Medium”original ↗
21 Jun 2022
Webinar: On using expert information in Bayesian statisticsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2022
Don’t believe the “Breaking News” hype (NYT science section version)original ↗
20 Jun 2022
Propagation of responsibilityoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2022
The local bookstore is trolling meoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2022
Tips for designing interactive visualizationsoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2022
Walker/Guzey media appearances, a comparison:original ↗
17 Jun 2022
Postdoc opportunity in San Francisco: methods research in public healthoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2022
From Anna Menacher: A timeline of the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 yearsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2022
The academic plagiarism landscapeoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2022
I was looking through the wrong end of the telescope.original ↗
15 Jun 2022
Considering the recent NYT age-adjustment error as a particular example: When an error a possibly misleading headline is published, when is there pressure to get it changed?original ↗
15 Jun 2022
Statistics and science reform: My conversation with economist Noah Smithoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2022
“Unjournal”: Action plan, writing, resourcesoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
Statistical graphics discussion with Laura Wattenberg about the NameGrapheroriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
Fill in the blank: “_____ _____ is going to usher forth a revolution in peer review: a revolution of fairness, effectiveness, consistency, and kindness.”original ↗
12 Jun 2022
“Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?”original ↗
11 Jun 2022
Spam! It’s funny, but it’s evil.original ↗
10 Jun 2022
Excellent graphical data storytelling from Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the recent electionoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2022
How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? (R. A. Fisher and smoking example)original ↗
8 Jun 2022
Epidemiologist being sued by a company whose scientific claims she’d criticizedoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2022
Should we spend so much time talking about cheaters and fraudsters?original ↗
6 Jun 2022
“When you do applied statistics, you’re acting like a scientist. Why does this matter?”: My talk at the NYR conference this Thursdayoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2022
Pizzagate and “Nudge”: An opportunity lostoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2022
Unsustainable research on corporate sustainabilityoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2022
Contest for critically engaging with effective altruismoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2022
What is the role of evidence-free, implausible, or flat-out false anecdotes in social science?original ↗
2 Jun 2022
“Debarkle: The epic saga of how a culture war came to consume science fiction’s most famous literary award”original ↗
1 Jun 2022
Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Case Studiesoriginal ↗
31 May 2022
Troubling conflict of interest at Stat Newsoriginal ↗
30 May 2022
B.S. pseudo-expertise has many homes. (Don’t blame the Afghanistan/Iraq war on academic specialization.)original ↗
29 May 2022
“Tuning-Free Generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo”original ↗
28 May 2022
More implausible numbers from Columbia University’s U.S. News rankingoriginal ↗
27 May 2022
The worst of both worlds: A comparative analysis of errors in learning from data in psychology and machine learningoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
Public opinion isn’t always as polarized as you think (no, longstanding opposition to GMOs is not “mostly left,” at least not in the U.S.)original ↗
26 May 2022
Why not look at Y?original ↗
25 May 2022
The Failure of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing When Studying Incremental Changes, and What to Do About Itoriginal ↗
25 May 2022
Applied statistics job at Leeds University, research in weather and climate change in partnership with the U.K. Meteorological Officeoriginal ↗
25 May 2022
“Stylized Facts in the Social Sciences”original ↗
24 May 2022
New Yorker : Spy :: Kieran Healy : Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scienceoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
Webinar: Design of Statistical Modeling Softwareoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
Yelp reviews for scientists and pundits?original ↗
23 May 2022
What happened to that Los Angeles tunnel that Axios was saying was coming “soon” . . . in 2018?original ↗
22 May 2022
“Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age”original ↗
21 May 2022
Abortion attitudes in Oklahomaoriginal ↗
20 May 2022
The problem with (some) science: How much is it a problem with process and how much is it a problem with substance?original ↗
20 May 2022
Am I the Cookie?original ↗
19 May 2022
Doing Mister P with multiple outcomesoriginal ↗
18 May 2022
I had big plans for that four-fifths of a penny: False precision and fraudoriginal ↗
17 May 2022
Do celebrated scientists have the free will to admit they are wrong? Not always!original ↗
17 May 2022
More discussion of differential privacy at the Censusoriginal ↗
16 May 2022
Buying things vs. buying experiences (vs. buying nothing at all): Again, we see a stock-versus-flow confusionoriginal ↗
16 May 2022
“A much bigger problem is the tension between the difficulty of statistics and the demand for it to be simple and readily available.”original ↗
15 May 2022
“Causal” is like “error term”: it’s what we say when we’re not trying to model the process.original ↗
14 May 2022
We have really everything in common with machine learning nowadays, except, of course, language.original ↗
13 May 2022
New twitter feed: StatPapersoriginal ↗
12 May 2022
Provisional draft of the Neurips code of ethicsoriginal ↗
12 May 2022
Jamaican me crazy one more timeoriginal ↗
11 May 2022
New twitter feed: StatRetrooriginal ↗
10 May 2022
Public opinion on abortion (David Weakliem’s summary of the polls)original ↗
9 May 2022
Ben Lerner is a reboot of Jonathan Franzen (and that’s a good thing)original ↗
9 May 2022
How should journals handle submissions of non-reproducible research?original ↗
8 May 2022
“How fake science is infiltrating scientific journals”original ↗
7 May 2022
My (remote) talks at UNC biostat, 12-13 Mayoriginal ↗
6 May 2022
Ask the polling expertoriginal ↗
6 May 2022
Opportunity for political scientists and economists to participate in the Multi100 replication project!original ↗
6 May 2022
Giving an honest talkoriginal ↗
5 May 2022
Controversy over California Math Framework reportoriginal ↗
5 May 2022
A journal is like a creworiginal ↗
4 May 2022
Google’s problems with reproducibilityoriginal ↗
3 May 2022
Humans interacting with the human-computer interaction literatureoriginal ↗
3 May 2022
Probabilistic feature analysis of facial perception of emotionsoriginal ↗
2 May 2022
They start out so friendly and they end up so bossy. What’s with that? (This is a job for Wolfram Research.)original ↗
1 May 2022
Polls.original ↗
30 Apr 2022
How many clusters? And a Declaration of Selection Bias.original ↗
29 Apr 2022
Why I’m skeptical of “steelmanning”: By bending over backward to see things from the other person’s point of view, you’re implicitly dismissing other perspectives.original ↗
28 Apr 2022
Hey, check this out, it’s really cool: A Bayesian framework for interpreting findings from impact evaluations.original ↗
27 Apr 2022
Elites giving advice to elites giving advice to elitesoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2022
Webinar: Making synthetic data look real using conditional GANsoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2022
Dan Luu on internet writingoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2022
More news on Columbia University’s apparent manipulation of numbers that go into its U.S. News ranking. (Spoiler: it’s not good news.)original ↗
25 Apr 2022
The perils of (apparently) logical thinkingoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2022
Bo’s Bagels is good.original ↗
23 Apr 2022
Warner Music Group wants to hire Bayesians!original ↗
23 Apr 2022
How junk science persists in academia, news media, and social media: Resistance to the resistanceoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2022
Jamaican me crazy: the return of the overestimated effect of early childhood interventionoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2022
Despite its title, tomorrow’s post is not about beef patties.original ↗
21 Apr 2022
Politics and covid: Interesting example of aggregation and correlationoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2022
When are cognitive forcing functions interesting?original ↗
19 Apr 2022
Code. Never. Lies.original ↗
19 Apr 2022
Again on the problems with technology that makes it more convenient to gamble away your moneyoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2022
Asymmetries in research misconduct in collaborationsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2022
Spam is so much fun! But sometimes it’s baffling.original ↗
16 Apr 2022
Switch 500,000 (not 45,000) votes and Trump would’ve tied in the electoral college.original ↗
15 Apr 2022
Plaig!original ↗
14 Apr 2022
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