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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 10h
Columbia fake U.S. News statistics update: They paid $9 million and are still, bizarrely, refusing to admit misreporting of data, even though everybody knows they misreported data.
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Columbia fake U.S. News statistics update: They paid $9 million and are still, bizarrely, refusing to admit misreporting of data, even though everybody knows they misreported data. | Statistical Mod...
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 1d
The worst research papers I’ve ever published
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The worst research papers I’ve ever published | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 2d
Prior distributions for regression coefficients
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Prior distributions for regression coefficients | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 2d
Selection bias in junk science: Which junk science gets a hearing?
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Selection bias in junk science: Which junk science gets a hearing? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 2d
Aki looking for a doctoral student to develop Bayesian workflow
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Aki looking for a doctoral student to develop Bayesian workflow | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 3d
Survey Statistics: struggles with equivalent weights
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Survey Statistics: struggles with equivalent weights | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 3d
Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives
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Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 4d
“300 Paintings”
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“300 Paintings” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 4d
When rich people believe, or pretend to believe, stupid things (tennis edition)
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When rich people believe, or pretend to believe, stupid things (tennis edition) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 4d
Uncanny academic valley: Brian Wansink as proto-chatbot
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Uncanny academic valley: Brian Wansink as proto-chatbot | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 6d
Unusual consulting request
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Unusual consulting request | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 7d
It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World
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It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 7d
Adding noise to the data to reduce overfitting . . . How does that work?
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Adding noise to the data to reduce overfitting . . . How does that work? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 8d
“It’s horrible that they’re sucking young researchers into this vortex. It’s Gigo and Gresham all the way down.”
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“It’s horrible that they’re sucking young researchers into this vortex. It’s Gigo and Gresham all the way down.” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 9d
Yes, your single vote really can make a difference! (in Canada)
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Yes, your single vote really can make a difference! (in Canada) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 10d
Survey Statistics: beyond balancing
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Survey Statistics: beyond balancing | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 10d
“Dangerous Fictions” and the norm of entertainment
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“Dangerous Fictions” and the norm of entertainment | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 11d
Behind-the-Scenes Seminar on social science this Fri 3 Oct
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Behind-the-Scenes Seminar on social science this Fri 3 Oct | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 11d
Game theory corner: did Eric Adams play his hand well? (It's a little like Murder on the Orient Express, it's a little like The Sting.)
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Game theory corner: did Eric Adams play his hand well? (It’s a little like Murder on the Orient Express, it’s a little like The Sting.) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 12d
“Veridical (truthful) Data Science”: Another way of looking at statistical workflow
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“Veridical (truthful) Data Science”: Another way of looking at statistical workflow | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 13d
In music, literature, and technical writing, the relation of large-scale structure to the local action
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In music, literature, and technical writing, the relation of large-scale structure to the local action | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 14d
A Selective History of Political Polling and Election Forecasting
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A Selective History of Political Polling and Election Forecasting | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 15d
The Dodgers are hiring
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The Dodgers are hiring | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 15d
“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
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“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 16d
More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt
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More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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