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When in doubt (in teaching and in research) do a simulation on the computer.
about 12 hours ago
The other day I taught my class and it didn’t go so...
The combination of originality, ambition, and lack of scruple can take you far in social science.
1 day ago
I happened to come across the above line in this post from...
Barnard College president promotes free expression, does not comment on recent anti-free-expression policies at the college
3 days ago
The president of neighboring Barnard College writes Now Is the Time for...
Pinning the group-level variance parameters to speed computation for hierarchical models
3 days ago
In case you don’t know about the Stan Forums, let me just...
What we can remember (the vagaries of literary fame)
4 days ago
OK, this one’s just for Campos Booth Tarkington is known as an...
I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing, schoolyard evolutionary psychology, extra-sensory perception, magic golf balls, air rage, himmicanes, subliminal smiley faces, etc et
5 days ago
Dale Lehman sends an email with subject line “A new low in...
Survey Statistics: more adventures in mismeasured X
5 days ago
Last week we considered this simple example of measurement error in auxiliary...
A funny mismatch between the level of the course and what the instructor is doing on the blackboard
6 days ago
I was doing some web searching and came across this article from...
How the covid vaccine almost killed me
7 days ago
So, I was talking on the phone with a friend the other...
Looking at the Port Huron Statement, 63 years later
8 days ago
In preparation for this new class, I was reading the Port Huron...
“No one could suspect that times were coming . . . when the man who did not gamble would lose all the time, even more surely than he who gambled.”
8 days ago
In preparation for this new class, I was reading White Collar, the...
How much of an NBA team’s won-loss record is from skill and how much is luck?
9 days ago
Paul Campos reminds us that just two years ago the Detroit Pistons...