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Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold?
about 1 hour ago
I was talking with someone the other day about some disputed claim...
The density of fraud
1 day ago
Last year we discussed the story of a doctor at Columbia University...
The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram
2 days ago
This is Erik. Five years ago, I wrote a short paper about...
How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors?
2 days ago
Here’s a story that appears on pages 309-310 of Active Statistics Many...
The Democrats were lucky that the election was last week and not next week.
3 days ago
The headline result from last week’s elections was: Democrats win across the...
The value of close reading: Larry Summers edition
3 days ago
The principle, “God is in every leaf of every tree,” doesn’t just...
Noted economist likes to talk about demographics but he doesn’t know the actual facts.
4 days ago
This one came from the U.S. House of Representatives, for some reason...
“Belief in the law of small numbers” as a way to understand the replication crisis and silly researchers who continue to cite discredited behavioral research
4 days ago
Seth Green writes Apropos of your post PNAS GIGO QRP WTF: This...
Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters
5 days ago
So far we’ve focused on a population mean E[Y] as our quantity...
From the three branches of government to the bidirectional nature of legal reasoning in a way that is similar to how statistics works, and should work, in the real world
5 days ago
In my recent post on the WAR war and the electoral benefits...
The accupuncture paradox and its resolution
6 days ago
This one’s important The other day we had a post on when...
What intro stats textbook to use?
7 days ago
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas writes I am a starting lecturer in statistics trying...