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“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.”
about 14 hours 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?
1 day ago
Paul Campos reminds us that just two years ago the Detroit Pistons...
If only Lee Bollinger
3 days ago
If only Lee Bollinger, the former president of Columbia University, hadn’t already...
Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production
3 days ago
Since it’s dictionary week here on the blog, why not discuss Merriam-Webster’s...
Holiday open thread: Correct me! Point out all my mistakes.
4 days ago
I’ve made lots of mistakes, and failure has been good for my...
Survey Statistics: is a mismeasured X better than none at all ?
4 days ago
We’ve talked a lot about the “Representation” side of the Groves et...
The problems with popular internet heuristics such as “Hanlon’s razor,” “steelmanning,” and “Godwin’s law,” all of which kind of fall apart in the presence of actual malice, actual bad ideas, and actual Nazis.
5 days ago
From my review of Dan Davies’s book on business fraud Fraud might...
Postdoc opportunity at Stanford and Chicago on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and partial pooling for improving the accuracy and equity of property tax assessments
5 days ago
Evelyn Smith writes I’m reaching out because Stanford RegLab and the Mansueto...
Who else is in the goddam dictionary?
6 days ago
Following up on the recent posts by Jessica and me, I thought...
“I think there’s an argument to be made that much meta-scientific work is a kind of mirror image of the empirical work it critiques”
7 days ago
In the context of our recent discussion of the p-curve paper, Richard...
Hey, I’m in the dictionary (too!)
7 days ago
I guess someone at Merriam-Webster has good taste Though it figures that...
Hey, I’m in the dictionary!
8 days ago
The House of Commons, the Supreme Court, Private Eye, and, above, Merriam-Webster....