Here’s some summer reading for you. The schedule may change because of the insertion of topical material, but this is the basic plan:
Richard Feynman and the tyranny of measurement
A bad definition of statistical significance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Effective Health Care Program
Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the “street code” of journalism
Flamebait: “Mathiness” in economics and political science
45 years ago in the sister blog
Ira Glass asks. We answer.
The 3 Stages of Busy
Ripped from the pages of a George Pelecanos novel
“We can keep debating this after 11 years, but I’m sure we all have much more pressing things to do (grants? papers? family time? attacking 11-year-old papers by former classmates? guitar practice?)”
What do I say when I don’t have much to say?
“Women Respond to Nobel Laureate’s ‘Trouble With Girls’”
This sentence by Thomas Mallon would make Barry N. Malzberg spin in his grave, except that he’s still alive so it would just make him spin in his retirement
If you leave your datasets sitting out on the counter, they get moldy
Spam!
The plagiarist next door strikes back: Different standards of plagiarism in different communities
How to parameterize hyperpriors in hierarchical models?
How Hamiltonian Monte Carlo works
When does Bayes do the job?
Here’s a theoretical research project for you
Classifying causes of death using “verbal autopsies”
All hail Lord Spiegelhalter!
Dan Kahan doesn’t trust the Turk
Neither time nor stomach
He wants to teach himself some statistics
Hey—Don’t trust anything coming from the Tri-Valley Center for Human Potential!
Harry S. Truman, Jesus H. Christ, Roy G. Biv
Why couldn’t Breaking Bad find Mexican Mexicans?
Rockin the tabloids
A statistical approach to quadrature
Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli. Not.
0.05 is a joke
Jökull Snæbjarnarson writes . . .
Aahhhhh, young people!
Plaig! (non-Wegman edition)
We provide a service
“The belief was so strong that it trumped the evidence before them.”
“Can you change your Bayesian prior?”
How to analyze hierarchical survey data with post-stratification?
A political sociological course on statistics for high school students
Questions about data transplanted in kidney study
Performing design calculations (type M and type S errors) on a routine basis?
“Another bad chart for you to criticize”
Constructing an informative prior using meta-analysis
Stan attribution
Cannabis/IQ follow-up: Same old story
Defining conditional probability
In defense of endless arguments
Emails I never finished reading
BREAKING . . . Sepp Blatter accepted $2M payoff from Dennis Hastert
Comments on Imbens and Rubin causal inference book
“Dow 36,000″ guy offers an opinion on Tom Brady’s balls. The rest of us are supposed to listen?
Irwin Shaw: “I might mistrust intellectuals, but I’d mistrust nonintellectuals even more.”
Death of a statistician
Being polite vs. saying what we really think
Why is this double-y-axis graph not so bad?
“There are many studies showing . . .”
Even though it’s published in a top psychology journal, she still doesn’t believe it
He’s skeptical about Neuroskeptic’s skepticism
Turbulent Studies, Rocky Statistics: Publicational Consequences of Experiencing Inferential Instability
Medical decision making under uncertainty
Unreplicable
“The frequentist case against the significance test”
Erdos bio for kids
Have weak data. But need to make decision. What to do?
“I do not agree with the view that being convinced an effect is real relieves a researcher from statistically testing it.”
Optimistic or pessimistic priors
Draw your own graph!
Low-power pose
Annals of Spam
The Final Bug, or, Please please please please please work this time!
Enjoy.