I was just thinking about this because we seem to be circling around the same few topics over and over (while occasionally slipping in some new statistical ideas):
10. Wegman
9. Hipmunk
8. Dennis the dentist
7. Freakonomics
6. The difference between significant and non-significant is not itself statistically significant
5. Just use a hierarchical model already!
4. Innumerate journalists who think that presidential elections are just like high school
3. A graph can be pretty but convey essentially no information
2. Stan is coming
1. Clippy!
Did I miss anything important?
Bloging? Silly studies?
Not liking how economists analyse data.
Wanting to be a critic.
Baby Name Wizard
albedo
Mike:
The albedo troll could be considered a subset of item 7 above. But I agree that it took on a life of its own!
lol
Rationality of voting?
Philosophy of statistics and what it means to be a Bayesian?
Those seem to come up a lot … but maybe it’s been a while since the last post on these topics.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
That’s a special case of item 1.
lol!
Mister P!
That one goes in item 5.
Zombies
zombies?
hi christian, see the blog categories.
I love the tag without the explanation. I hope Prof. Gelman holds the line on that -it’s that much funnier.
Scott Adams!
I was just reading on Gawker…..
Ouch!
Only caught my attention because you kept apologising for mentioning it.
Being a pleasant Friday afternoon, I thought I would share what I overheard a sociologist say on a train about comments given at conferences (a kind of old fashion blogging)
Every one always says two things – “I am smart and I know important things!”
K?
(Now I should read that philo draft Andrew just made available.)
Who is Stan?
Stan’s a what, not a who.
procrastinating some time ago, i was trying to come up with terms for a random andrew generator.
multilevel model
interactions, interactions, interactions
posterior predictive checks
too many tick marks
secret weapon
mr p
bayesian
i am not a subjective bayesian
popper
i hate fisher’s exact test
too many decimal places
That table really should be a graph.
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P.S. Enjoyed your after-hours Strata talk immensely. You should be a stand-up comic.
Agreed on the Strata talk, it was my favorite part of the whole conference.
(and let’s get some more updates on Stan!)