On deck this month

My talk today at the University of Michigan, 4pm at the Institute for Social Research

Social research is not the same as health research: Macartan Humphreys gives new guidelines for ethics in social science research

“The Firth bias correction, penalization, and weakly informative priors: A case for log-F priors in logistic and related regressions”

I’m sure that my anti-Polya attitude is completely unfair

Scientists behaving badly

Why I’m not posting on this topic

The history of MRP highlights some differences between political science and epidemiology

Your closest collaborator . . . and why you can’t talk with her

Common sense and statistics

“Patchwriting” is a Wegmanesque abomination but maybe there’s something similar that could be helpful?

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!

Stethoscope as weapon of mass distraction

Times have changed (sportswriting edition)

Question about data mining bias in finance

“Why continue to teach and use hypothesis testing?”

In which I play amateur political scientist

Retrospective clinical trials?

“If you’re not using a proper, informative prior, you’re leaving money on the table.”

Hey, NYT: Former editor Bill Keller said that any editor who fails to confront a writer about an error because of the writer’s supposed status is failing to do their job. It’s not too late to correct the errors of Nicholas Kristof and David Brooks!

Blogs > Twitter

Princeton Abandons Grade Deflation Plan . . .

Relaxed plagiarism standards as a way to keep the tuition dollars flowing from foreign students

I (almost and inadvertently) followed Dan Kahan’s principles in my class today, and that was a good thing (would’ve even been more of a good thing had I realized what I was doing and done it better, but I think I will do better in the future, which has already happened by the time you read this; remember, the blog is on a nearly 2-month lag)

Leif and Uri need to hang out with a better class of statisticians

Quantitative literacy is tough! Or, I had no idea that, in 1958, 96% of Americans disapproved of interracial marriage!

Arizona plagiarism update

Unstrooping names

A question about varying-intercept, varying-slope multilevel models for cross-national analysis

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