News

1. Science and the malleability of the self (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. A Possible Substitute for Mifepristone Is Already on Pharmacy Shelves (www.theatlantic.com)
3. When estimating a treatment effect with a cluster design, you need to include varying slopes, even if the fit gives warning messages. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail (www.theatlantic.com)
5. Dan Ariely: “Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compass” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. “Interrogating Ethnography”: The Alice Goffman story (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. The “delay-the-reckoning heuristic” in pro football? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. Please Don’t Make Me Say My Boyfriend’s Name (www.theatlantic.com)
9. Los Angeles’s Ash Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
10. Problems caused by grade inflation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. TWiV 1185: The birds and the Bs (www.microbe.tv)
12. Where should we publish our paper, “Statistical graphics and comics: Parallel histories of visual storytelling”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
13. TWiV 1184: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
14. How far can exchangeability get us toward agreeing on individual probability? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. 7 steps to junk science that can achieve worldly success (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Why I like preregistration (and it’s not about p-hacking). When done right, it unifies the substance of science with the scientific method. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned Cigarettes (www.theatlantic.com)
18. Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Over (www.theatlantic.com)
19. “The terror among academics on the covid origins issue is like nothing we’ve ever seen before” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs (www.theatlantic.com)
21. Immune 87: When the immune system misbehaves (www.microbe.tv)
22. Genre fiction: Some genres are cumulative and some are not. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. The theory crisis in physics compared to the replication crisis in social science: Two different opinion-field inversions that differ in some important ways (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate (www.theatlantic.com)
25. String theory wars: An opinion-field inversion. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. TWiV 1183: More than 2024 viruses (www.microbe.tv)
27. Muckraking at the University of Oregon (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. TWiV 1182: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
29. Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment (www.theatlantic.com)
30. “The king, sir, is much better!” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. Postdoc, doctoral student, and summer intern positions, Bayesian methods, Aalto (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. Public Health Can’t Stop Making the Same Nutrition Mistake (www.theatlantic.com)
33. I would add three words to this statement by Uri Simonsohn on preregistration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Junk science becomes more professionalized. Meanwhile, conspiracy theories are being more associated with the center-right and right, politically. How does all this fit together? I’m not sure. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. Treasure trove of forensic details in arXiv’s LaTeX source code (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Americans With Dementia Are Grieving Social Media (www.theatlantic.com)
37. Truth is more realistic than fiction, and what this tells us about odious thought experiments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Progress in 2024 (Aki) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill (www.theatlantic.com)
40. This looks like an excellent new business line for Wolfram Research! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. “I would have had a simple piece of advice: Say nothing.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. TWiV 1181: Seek and ye shall find, coronaviruses and phage (www.microbe.tv)
43. What are my goals? What are their goals? (How to prepare for that meeting.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. TWiV 1180: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
45. Thermometers Are Hot Garbage (www.theatlantic.com)
46. Echoing Eco: From the logic of stories to posterior predictive simulation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. Progress in 2024 (Jessica) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life (www.theatlantic.com)
49. Revisiting depression incidence by county and vote for Trump (freerangestats.info)
50. Advice for weighting the results of conjoint analyses/experiments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. Doctors Thought They Knew What a Genetic Disease Is. They Were Wrong. (www.theatlantic.com)
52. Newly published in 2024 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. Calibration “resolves” epistemic uncertainty by giving predictions that are indistinguishable from the true probabilities. Why is this still unsatisfying? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. What is the minimum bloggable contribution? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. Most popular posts of 2024 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. A very interesting discussion by Roy Sorensen of the interesting-number paradox (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. Sorry, NYT, but, yes, “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis” was junk science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. TWiV 1179: Dark matter and warning signs (www.microbe.tv)
59. Bayesian inference (and mathematical reasoning more generally) isn’t just about getting the answer; it’s also about clarifying the mapping from assumptions to inference to decision. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. TWiV 1178: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
61. Announcing two new members of our blogging team . . . (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. Softmax is on the log, not the logit scale (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. Data manipulation in the world of long-distance swimming! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. How to cheat at Codenames; cheating at board games more generally (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. Addressing legitimate counterarguments in a scientific review: The challenge of being an insider (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. You Are Drinking the Wrong Eggnog (www.theatlantic.com)
67. The marginalization or Jeffreys-Lindley paradox: it’s already been resolved. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. How Tortillas Lost Their Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
69. Stanford medical school professor misrepresents what I wrote (but I kind of understand where he’s coming from) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. Depression incidence by county and vote for Trump (freerangestats.info)
71. TWiV 1177: Going to school for flu (www.microbe.tv)
72. The true meaning of the alzabo (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. TWiV 1176: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
74. COVID’s End-of-Year Surprise (www.theatlantic.com)
75. Delicate language for talking about statistical guarantees (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. “Accounting for Nonresponse in Election Polls: Total Margin of Error” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out (www.theatlantic.com)
78. How did the press do on that “black spatula” story? Not so great. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. He took public funds and falsified his data. Are they gonna make him pay back the $19 million? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. Applications of (Bayesian) variational inference? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
81. Iterative imputation and incoherent Gibbs sampling (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. Has Your Cat Closed Its Rings Today? (www.theatlantic.com)
83. “The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
84. TWiV 1175: A hitchiker's guide to virology (www.microbe.tv)
85. TWiV 1174: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
86. Death rates by cause of death (freerangestats.info)
87. RFK Jr.’s Testosterone Regimen Is Almost Reasonable (www.theatlantic.com)
88. The Ozempic Flip-Flop (www.theatlantic.com)
89. America Can’t Break Its Wellness Habit (www.theatlantic.com)
90. Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise (www.theatlantic.com)
91. TWiV 1173: Holy Cow! Convergent evolution! (www.microbe.tv)
92. TWiV 1172: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
93. Murder Is an Awful Answer for Health-Care Anger (www.theatlantic.com)
94. TWiV 1171: The born immunity (www.microbe.tv)
95. TWiV 1170: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
96. Simulating Ponzi schemes (freerangestats.info)
97. Immune 86: Where did the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies go? (www.microbe.tv)