On deck for the rest of the summer

  • Skepticism about a published claim regarding income inequality and happiness
  • Battle of the cozy comedians: What’s Alan Bennett’s problem with Stewart Lee?
  • A world without statistics
  • NFL players keep getting bigger and bigger
  • “An Experience with a Registered Replication Project”
  • A linguist has a question about sampling when the goal is causal inference from observational data
  • What do you do to visualize uncertainty?
  • Statistics and data science, again
  • The health policy innovation center: how best to move from pilot studies to large-scale practice?
  • The “scientific surprise” two-step
  • Correlation does not even imply correlation
  • When doing scientific replication or criticism, collaboration with the original authors is fine but I don’t think it should be a requirement or even an expectation
  • Scientific communication by press release
  • Nate Silver’s website
  • Estimated effect of early childhood intervention downgraded from 42% to 25%
  • Understanding the hot hand, and the myth of the hot hand, and the myth of the myth of the hot hand, and the myth of the myth of the myth of the hot hand, all at the same time
  • People used to send me ugly graphs, now I get these things
  • Updike and O’Hara
  • Luck vs. skill in poker
  • If you do an experiment with 700,000 participants, you’ll (a) have no problem with statistical significance, (b) get to call it “massive-scale,” (c) get a chance to publish it in a tabloid top journal. Cool!
  • Science tells us that fast food lovers are more likely to marry other fast food lovers
  • Stroopy names
  • “A hard case for Mister P”
  • The field is a fractal
  • Replication Wiki for economics
  • Discussion of “Maximum entropy and the nearly black object”
  • Review of “Forecasting Elections”
  • Discussion of “A probabilistic model for the spatial distribution of party support in multiparty elections”
  • Pre-election survey methodology: details from nine polling organizations, 1988 and 1992
  • Avoiding model selection in Bayesian social research

And, scheduled for Labor Day:

  • Bad Statistics: Ignore or Call Out?

Enjoy your summer! Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case, Merry Christmas.

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