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Scott Adams blogging
Some of my commenters (you know who you are) demand more Scott-Adams-related content. So I went over to the Dilbert blog and found two interesting recent items: The Pivot: I’m not particularly interested in the topic (rich guys getting richer) … Continue reading
Mary Rosh!
Here. As the saying goes, “You’re talking about Scott Adams. He’s not talking about you.”
Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of the Fivethirtyeight presidential election forecast
We’ve been writing a bit about some odd tail behavior in the Fivethirtyeight election forecast, for example that it was giving Joe Biden a 3% chance of winning Alabama (which seemed high), it was displaying Trump winning California as in … Continue reading
Information or Misinformation During a Pandemic: Comparing the effects of following Nassim Taleb, Richard Epstein, or Cass Sunstein on twitter.
So, there’s this new study doing the rounds. Some economists decided to study the twitter followers of prominent coronavirus skeptics and fearmongers, and it seems that followers of Nassim Taleb were more likely to shelter in place, and less like … Continue reading
The Paterno Defence: Gladwell’s Tipping Point?
“We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly. . . . The Tipping Point is the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling … Continue reading
When people make up victim stories
A couple of victim stories came up recently: in both cases these were people I’d never heard of until (a) they claimed to have been victimized, and (b) it seems that these claims were made up. First case was Jussie … Continue reading
19 Things We Learned from the 2016 Election
OK, we can all agree that the November election result was a shocker. According to news reports, even the Trump campaign team was stunned to come up a winner. So now seemed like a good time to go over various … Continue reading
I know I said I wouldn’t blog for awhile, but this one was just too good to resist
Scott Adams endorsing the power pose: Have you heard of the “victory pose.” It’s a way to change your body chemistry almost instantly by putting your hands above your head like you won something. That’s a striking example of how … Continue reading
Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy
He built . . . a coalition of the aggrieved—of men and women not deranged but affronted by various tendencies over the previous two or three decades . . . That’s political reporter Richard Rovere in his 1958 classic, “Senator … Continue reading
Leicester City and Donald Trump: How to think about predictions and longshot victories?
Leicester City was a 5000-to-1 shot to win the championship—and they did it. Donald Trump wasn’t supposed to win the Republican nomination—last summer Nate gave him a 2% chance—and it looks like he will win. For that matter, Nate only … Continue reading
“David Brooks And Jeremy Paxman To Judge The Golden Giraffes”
I don’t think I have much of a chance here, not because of the judging—I’d trust Brooks and Paxman to recognize good writing—but because the competition includes some heavy hitters, including Dan Davies with a meta-blog-post called The Verjus Manifesto, … Continue reading
Saying things that are out of place
Basbøll points us to a column by Michael Shermer, a journalist and self-described skeptic who’s written a lot about skepticism, atheism, etc. Recently, though, Shermer wrote of an event that “shook [his] skepticism to its core”—it was a story about … Continue reading
10th anniversary of “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science”
Richard Morey pointed out the other day that this blog is 10 years old! During this time, we’ve had 5688 posts, 48799 comments, and who knows how many readers. On this tenth anniversary, I’d like to thank my collaborators on … Continue reading
Sleazy sock puppet can’t stop spamming our discussion of compressed sensing and promoting the work of Xiteng Liu
Some asshole who has a bug up his ass about compressed sensing is spamming our comments with a bunch of sock puppets. All from the same IP address: “George Stoneriver,” Scott Wolfe,” and just plain “Paul,” all saying pretty much … Continue reading
The statistical properties of smart chains (and referral chains more generally)
Louis Mittel writes: The premise of the column this guy is starting is interesting: Noah Davis interviews a smart person and then interviews the smartest person that smart person knows and so on. It reminded me of you mentioning survey … Continue reading
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.” — William James
Eric Tassone writes: Probably not blog-worthy/blog-appropriate, but have you heard Bill James discussing the Sandusky & Paterno stuff? I think you discussed once his stance on the Dowd Report, and this seems to be from the same part of his … Continue reading
Recently in the award-winning sister blog
In case you haven’t been following: – Top ten excuses for plagiarism – Why I won’t be sad to see Anthony Weiner retire – U.S. voter participation has not fallen steadily over the past few decades – Scott Adams had … Continue reading
Human nature can’t be changed (except when it can)
I was checking the Dilbert blog (sorry! I was just curious what was up after the events of a few weeks ago) and saw this: Continue reading
Dilbert update: cartooning can give you the strength to open jars with your bare hands
We were having so much fun on this thread that I couldn’t resist linking to this news item by Adrian Chen. The good news is that Scott Adams (creater of the Dilbert comic strip) “has a certified genius IQ” and … Continue reading