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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2017
Further evidence that creativity and innovation are stimulated by college sports: Evidence from a big regressionoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2017
24 Sept 2017
22 Sept 2017
22 Sept 2017
“What we know and don’t know about the 2016 election—and beyond” (event at Columbia poli sci dept next Monday midday)original ↗
21 Sept 2017
It’s not enough to be a good person and to be conscientious. You also need good measurement. Cargo-cult science done very conscientiously doesn’t become good science, it just falls apart from its own contradictions.original ↗
21 Sept 2017
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13 Sept 2017
It seemed to me that most destruction was being done by those who could not choose between the twooriginal ↗
12 Sept 2017
“How conditioning on post-treatment variables can ruin your experiment and what to do about it”original ↗
12 Sept 2017
11 Sept 2017
11 Sept 2017
11 Sept 2017
Too much backscratching and happy talk: Junk science gets to share in the reputation of respected universitiesoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2017
The fundamental abstractions underlying BUGS and Stan as probabilistic programming languagesoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2017
7 Sept 2017
3 Sept 2017
2 Sept 2017
SCANDAL: Florida State University football players held to the same low standards as George Mason University statistics facultyoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2017
What to make of reported statistical analysis summaries: Hear no distinction, see no ensembles, speak of no non-random error.original ↗
31 Aug 2017
29 Aug 2017
29 Aug 2017
Using statistical prediction (also called “machine learning”) to potentially save lots of resources in criminal justiceoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017
“From that perspective, power pose lies outside science entirely, and to criticize power pose would be a sort of category error, like criticizing The Lord of the Rings on the grounds that there’s no such thing as an invisibility ring, or criticizing The Rotter’s Club on the grounds that Jonathan Coe was just making it all up.”original ↗
26 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017
Don’t always give ’em what they want: Practicing scientists want certainty, but I don’t want to offer it to them!original ↗
22 Aug 2017
He wants some readings on the replication crisis that are accessible to college freshmen in economicsoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2017
Publish your raw data and your speculations, then let other people do the analysis: track and field editionoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2017
20 Aug 2017
“Babbage was out to show that not only was the system closed, with a small group controlling access to the purse strings and the same individuals being selected over and again for the few scientific honours or paid positions that existed, but also that one of the chief beneficiaries . . . was undeserving.”original ↗
19 Aug 2017
It is somewhat paradoxical that good stories tend to be anomalous, given that when it comes to statistical data, we generally want what is typical, not what is surprising. Our resolution of this paradox is . . .original ↗
18 Aug 2017
Also holding back progress are those who make mistakes and then label correct arguments as “nonsensical.”original ↗
16 Aug 2017
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12 Aug 2017
Bigshot statistician keeps publishing papers with errors; is there anything we can do to get him to stop???original ↗
10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017
What explains my lack of openness toward this research claim? Maybe my cortex is just too damn thick and wrinkledoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2017
The Supreme Court can’t do statistics. And, what’s worse, they don’t know what they don’t know.original ↗
9 Aug 2017
What readings should be included in a seminar on the philosophy of statistics, the replication crisis, causation, etc.?original ↗
7 Aug 2017
7 Aug 2017
“This finding did not reach statistical significance, but it indicates a 94.6% probability that statins were responsible for the symptoms.”original ↗
6 Aug 2017
PPNAS again: If it hadn’t been for the jet lag, would Junior have banged out 756 HRs in his career?original ↗
4 Aug 2017
It’s hard to know what to say about an observational comparison that doesn’t control for key differences between treatment and control groups, chili pepper editionoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2017
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1 Aug 2017