Lots of good stuff in the queue:
“Regular Customer: It was so much easier when I was a bum. I didn’t have to wake up at 4am to go to work, didn’t have all these bills and girlfriends.”
Rational != Self-interested
When there’s a lot of variation, it can be a mistake to make statements about “typical” attitudes
“Science does not advance by guessing”
When am I a conservative and when am I a liberal (when it comes to statistics, that is)?
Science tells us that fast food lovers are more likely to marry other fast food lovers
10th anniversary of “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science”
In one of life’s horrible ironies, I wrote a paper “Why we (usually) don’t have to worry about multiple comparisons” but now I spend lots of time worrying about multiple comparisons
The Fault in Our Stars: It’s even worse than they say
Buggy-whip update
The inclination to deny all variation
Hoe noem je?
“Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List”
The Fallacy of Placing Confidence in Confidence Intervals
Try a spaghetti plot
I ain’t got no watch and you keep asking me what time it is
Some questions from our Ph.D. statistics qualifying exam
Solution to the helicopter design problem
Solution to the problem on the distribution of p-values
Solution to the sample-allocation problem
A key part of statistical thinking is to use additive rather than Boolean models
Yes, I’ll help people for free but not like this!
I love it when I can respond to a question with a single link
Boo! Who’s afraid of availability bias?
That last one is a special Halloween-themed post. I hope you enjoy it.