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The true meaning of the alzabo
about 13 hours ago
OK, I guess this is obvious, but it hadn’t occurred to me...
Delicate language for talking about statistical guarantees
1 day ago
This is Jessica. As I’ve been reading papers on uncertainty quantification in...
“Accounting for Nonresponse in Election Polls: Total Margin of Error”
1 day ago
Jeff Dominitz and Chuck Manski write The potential impact of nonresponse on...
How did the press do on that “black spatula” story?
2 days ago
Act 1: The journal Chemosphere publishes a research article finding that black...
He took public funds and falsified his data. Are they gonna make him pay back the $19 million?
4 days ago
As a former University of Maryland student, I’m incensed by this story...
Applications of (Bayesian) variational inference?
4 days ago
I’m curious about whether anyone’s using variational inference, and more specifically, using...
Iterative imputation and incoherent Gibbs sampling
5 days ago
Seeing this post by Tim Morris on the difference between iterative imputation...
“The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science”
6 days ago
A distinguished female professor of cognitive and behavioral science pointed me to...
The well-meaning but useless or counterproductive social science establishment
7 days ago
Part 1: 2020 Back in the dark days of April, 2020, a...
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
7 days ago
Paul Campos shares the story of a tech zillionaire who allegedly pocketed...
The most interesting part of the story is that the publisher went through all these steps of reviewing and revising. If they just want to make money by publishing crap, why bother engaging outside reviewers at all?
8 days ago
Dorothy Bishop shares this hilarious/horrible story from neurosurgery researcher René Aquarius Mid...
“How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils”: Does it matter when an estimate is off by a factor of 10?
8 days ago
tl;dr. Researcher finds out they were off by a factor of 10...