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No, there is no epidemic of loneliness. (Or, Dog Bites Man: David Brooks runs another column based on fake stats)

Andrew Gelman · published 16 May 2018

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My beef with Brooks: the alternative to “good statistics” is not “no statistics,” it’s “bad statistics” Read at the source ↗

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Always check your evidence Read at the source ↗

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43 is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do Read at the source ↗

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Loneliness Scare Again… and Again… and… Read at the source ↗

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Does “status threat” explain the 2016 presidential vote? Read at the source ↗

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All the lonely people Read at the source ↗

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The Loneliness Scare is Back Read at the source ↗

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David Brooks writes that technical knowledge—“the statistical knowledge you need to understand what market researchers do, the biological knowledge you need to grasp the basics of what nurses do”—can be “memorized by rote” Read at the source ↗

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https://web.archive.org/web/20130714044514/https://www.symposium-magazine.com/sorry-wrong-number-andrew-gelman/

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It’s not “lying” exactly . . . What do you call it when someone deliberately refuses to correct an untruth? Read at the source ↗

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