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Back before he was a vaccine denier, law professor Richard Epstein was a cliche-spinning dispenser of misinformation
about 8 hours ago
A few days ago we had this post on Stanford people and...
Don’t Hold Out On Me: Some thoughts on out-of-sample prediction
1 day ago
Ryan Socha writes Typically in statistical modeling, we validate or test models...
Misattribution (when someone claims you said something that you’ve never said)–it’s kind of like plagiarism in reverse.
2 days ago
We’ve talked a lot about copying-without-attribution on this blog and elsewhere. I’ve...
Evaluation blind spots and eliciting moving targets
3 days ago
This is Jessica. There have been a few interesting articles in the...
“On Sociological Exploitation: Why the Guinea Pig Sometimes Bites”
3 days ago
In the above-titled article from 1971, political scientist Brian Vargus wrote Resistance...
Charles Margossian and Lawrence Saul win AISTATS ’25 Best Paper
4 days ago
It was just announced that Charles Margossian and Lawrence Saul won the...
I. J. Good corner: The flying Venus flytrap and other partly-baked ideas
4 days ago
We recently had a discussion about useless insights from social science, and...
Books by Charles Rosen and Jeremy Denk on piano playing and the nature of music
5 days ago
I just read two interesting books by classical pianists: Piano Notes by...
(again) Yeah, yeah, I understand why you’re all talking about accusations of fraud. But for the rest of us, it’s about the non-replication and the bad science, not about possible fraud and blame
6 days ago
There’s been a lot of news coverage lately on the replication crisis...
Measurement error model Stan fitting struggle: The funnel again rears its ugly head
7 days ago
1. The model and my initial expectations I simulated data and then...
Anticipated good news if the economy goes downhill
8 days ago
There’s some concern about an upcoming recession caused by economic shocks, including...
Here’s what’s happening with time-shifting of births.
8 days ago
A couple weeks ago we discussed the question, “What day of the...