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Andrew Gelman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
2017
5 Feb 2017
Research connects overpublication during national sporting events to science-journalism problemsoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2017
4 Feb 2017
Pizzagate, or the curious incident of the researcher in response to people pointing out 150 errors in four of his papersoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2017
No guru, no method, no teacher, Just you and I and nature . . . in the garden. Of forking paths.original ↗
30 Jan 2017
30 Jan 2017
Washington Post falls for that horrible air-rage study, and what gets me really angry about thisoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2017
29 Jan 2017
“Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab”original ↗
25 Jan 2017
Let’s try to understand our own contradictions (what P. J. O’Rourke gets but Michael Lind doesn’t)original ↗
25 Jan 2017
25 Jan 2017
23 Jan 2017
21 Jan 2017
“Estimating trends in mortality for the bottom quartile, we found little evidence that survival probabilities declined dramatically.”original ↗
19 Jan 2017
18 Jan 2017
“If the horse race polls were all wrong about Trump, why should his approval rating polls be any better?”original ↗
17 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017
To know the past, one must first know the future: The relevance of decision-based thinking to statistical analysisoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2017
14 Jan 2017
Problems with “incremental validity” or more generally in interpreting more than one regression coefficient at a timeoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2017
11 Jan 2017
When do stories work, Process tracing, and Connections between qualitative and quantitative researchoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2017
Problems with randomized controlled trials (or any bounded statistical analysis) and thinking more seriously about story timeoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2017
9 Jan 2017
9 Jan 2017
8 Jan 2017
When you add a predictor the model changes so it makes sense that the coefficients change too.original ↗
4 Jan 2017
About that claim in the Monkey Cage that North Korea had “moderate” electoral integrity . . .original ↗
3 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017
3 Jan 2017
2 Jan 2017
1 Jan 2017
2016
31 Dec 2016
30 Dec 2016
Two unrelated topics in one post: (1) Teaching useful algebra classes, and (2) doing more careful psychological measurementsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2016
“The Pitfall of Experimenting on the Web: How Unattended Selective Attrition Leads to Surprising (Yet False) Research Conclusions”original ↗
29 Dec 2016
“I thought it would be most unfortunate if a lab . . . wasted time and effort trying to replicate our results.”original ↗
29 Dec 2016
Sorry, but no, you can’t learn causality by looking at the third moment of regression residualsoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2016
27 Dec 2016
26 Dec 2016
25 Dec 2016
24 Dec 2016
23 Dec 2016
22 Dec 2016
20 Dec 2016
20 Dec 2016
Designing an animal-like brain: black-box “deep learning algorithms” to solve problems, with an (approximately) Bayesian “consciousness” or “executive functioning organ” that attempts to make sense of all these inferencesoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2016
Science journalist recommends going easy on Bigfoot, says you should bash mammograms insteadoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2016
The social world is (in many ways) continuous but people’s mental models of the world are Booleanoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2016
10 Dec 2016