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  1. Princeton Consumer Research reports a 93.94% success rate . . . not quite as good as Harvard, which gets you to “statistically indistinguishable from 100%”! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing (www.theatlantic.com)
  3. Helen DeWitt says, “programming occupies a place similar to that of literacy in mediaeval England.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  4. MAHA Is Complicating One of the Hardest Parts of Parenting (www.theatlantic.com)
  5. TWiV 1253: Harvard virology is not retreating (www.microbe.tv)
  6. BDA3 for free (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  7. Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the statistics assignment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. TWiV 1252: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  9. That external validity question: How to think about a 3-year UBI study? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. Now Comes the Hard Part for MAHA (www.theatlantic.com)
  11. Hot social science topics 20 years ago and hot social science topics now (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  12. Howl, after Allen Ginsberg (for the AI-headed hipsters) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  13. Going beyond naive individualistic models of social science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. RFK Jr.’s Calls With a Scientist Who Says Kids Get Autism From Tylenol (www.theatlantic.com)
  15. Survey Statistics: Imputation II (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  16. Show, don’t tell: ChatGPT 5 marginalizing Gelman’s measurement error model in Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  17. TWiV Special: David Baltimore, remembered (www.microbe.tv)
  18. Hypertext as constructed and hypertext as read (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. You learn about possible plagiarism in a literary work. How does that affect your view of it? (The A. J. Finn story) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  20. This post is not about Newt Gingrich and Fox news, nor is it about Michio Kaku and string theory. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. TWiV 1251: Swedish models and agent 007 (www.microbe.tv)
  22. Weighting of evidence and conflict of interest at the FDA and elsewhere (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  23. Some Papua New Guinea data doodles (freerangestats.info)
  24. TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  25. Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  26. A Massive Vaccine Experiment (www.theatlantic.com)
  27. Generate but verify: Reconciling the evidence utility of chatbots in many settings with chatbots’ evident lack of understanding (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. Blogging’s a great way to express your ideas. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. A Different RFK Jr. Just Appeared Before Congress (www.theatlantic.com)
  30. “Assembling an unbiased jury”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  31. RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap (www.theatlantic.com)
  32. Goodbye, FEMA. Hello, Disaster Consultants. (www.theatlantic.com)
  33. “William Burroughs said that you should never trust anyone who looked the same from photo to photo” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  34. Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  35. Who cares when a research claim is found to be in error? Peer-reviewed journals do their best to deflect and dilute legitimate criticism. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. “The Story Paradox” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes (www.theatlantic.com)
  38. Thank you, Perspectives on Psychological Science, for finally getting your act together. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  39. TWiV 1249: Demented and crAss (www.microbe.tv)
  40. It’s . . . Orwellian! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  41. TWiV 1248: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  42. The mantra and mania of data sharing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. The Trump Administration Will Automate Health Inequities (www.theatlantic.com)
  44. The War on Data, 2025 edition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. A Terrible Week for Pumpkin Spice (www.theatlantic.com)
  46. ‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  47. How will/should LLMs change how organizations do strategy? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  48. “Of all people who most recently tied the knot 50 or more years ago, and who haven’t yet died, X percent have made it this far without divorcing or becoming widowed” . . . What is X? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  49. What Women’s Baseball Will Look Like (www.theatlantic.com)
  50. Aiming your gatling guns in the wrong direction. Shooting the messenger for something the messenger was never saying. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. Inside the USAID Fire Sale (www.theatlantic.com)
  52. Survey Statistics: Thomas Lumley writes about Interviewing your Laptop (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  53. A suggestion for Freakonomics and Sean Carroll: Interview Nick Brown (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. Immune 95: Mitochondria for everyone (www.microbe.tv)
  55. New instructor resources for Llaudet and Imai’s book, Data Analysis for Social Science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. Modern Dentistry Is a Microplastic Minefield (www.theatlantic.com)
  57. What writing a failed rock-paper-scissors program taught me (or should have taught me) about sample size and uncertainty (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. Chatbot still can’t handle tic-tac-toe (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. If You Must Play One Sport, Make It Tennis (www.theatlantic.com)
  60. TWiV 1247: In the company of vaccines with Stanley Plotkin (www.microbe.tv)
  61. My thoughts on L. A. Paul’s “Transformative Experience” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. The MAHA Trend in Groceries Will Backfire (www.theatlantic.com)
  63. TWiV 1246: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  64. Fake-data simulation as posterior predictive checking: A formalization of the folk theorem of statistical computing! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. Men's domestic chores and fertility rates - Part II, technical notes (freerangestats.info)
  66. For which cases does AI help with classification (medical diagnosis example)? “The narrow beach between the continent of clear effects and the sea of confusion” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. A ‘MAHA Box’ Might Be Coming to Your Doorstep (www.theatlantic.com)
  68. “I guess my question is how bad must it be before retraction becomes appropriate?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. Survey Statistics: answers from the BLS (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  70. The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH (www.theatlantic.com)
  71. The Edlin factor strikes again: “The crown jewel of the Nudge literature finds its effect cut by 76%” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. Steering a middle ground between two extreme takes on the role of statistics in the development of language models (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. Two cool math lectures by Yuval Peres (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. TWiV 1245: Grabbing herpesvirus with both arms (www.microbe.tv)
  75. Pivoting to new funding sources in light of new government regulations (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. TWiV 1244: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  77. When does it make sense to talk about LLMs having beliefs? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  78. What’s on your university’s home page? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. Feynman corner: We have access to a lot more examples than we used to. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  80. Men's domestic chores and fertility rates - Part I (freerangestats.info)
  81. Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working (www.theatlantic.com)
  82. Autism junk science: The only part of this story that surprises me is that the outside critic “found it hard to believe just how flawed it turned out to be” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  83. Survey Statistics: 2nd helpings of the 2nd flavor of calibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  84. Hey! Here’s what to do when you have two or more surveys on the same population! (Combining survey data obtained using different modes of sampling) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  85. Immune Booster #15 Vaccine ground rules with Shane Crotty (www.microbe.tv)
  86. Americans Are All In on Cow-Based Wellness (www.theatlantic.com)
  87. The oldest famous person (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  88. Canada Is Killing Itself (www.theatlantic.com)
  89. TWiV 1243: Capitalism, COVID, and cancer (www.microbe.tv)
  90. ‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  91. TWiV 1242: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  92. The Giant Asterisk to MAHA’s Food-Dye Crackdown (www.theatlantic.com)
  93. How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled? (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. TWiV 1241: The most beautiful experiment (www.microbe.tv)
  95. TWiV 1240: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  96. Immune 94: The nose knows (www.microbe.tv)
  97. TWiV 1239: Aluminum and antibodies (www.microbe.tv)
  98. TWiV 1238: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  99. TWiV 1237: Hepatitis C and persistence with Charlie Rice (www.microbe.tv)
  100. TWiV 1236: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)