News

1. The Village Voice in the 1960s/70s and blogging in the early 2000s (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. The Cancer Gene More Men Should Test For (www.theatlantic.com)
3. A Ridiculous, Perfect Way to Make Friends (www.theatlantic.com)
4. We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines (www.theatlantic.com)
5. Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Something (www.theatlantic.com)
6. Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines (www.theatlantic.com)
7. The Behavioural Insights Team decided to scare people. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. 5 different reasons why it’s important to include pre-treatment variables when designing and analyzing a randomized experiment (or doing any causal study) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. What should Yuling include in his course on statistical computing? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. Anti-immigration attitudes: they didn’t want a bunch of Hungarian refugees coming in the 1950s (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. Stop Looking at Your Therapist (www.theatlantic.com)
12. TWiV 1167: Virus cloak and entry (www.microbe.tv)
13. Code it! (patterns in data edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. TWiV 1166: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
15. Design effects for stratified sub-populations (freerangestats.info)
16. Calibration for everyone and every decision problem, maybe (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. Average predictive comparisons (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. The Sanewashing of RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
19. Call for StanCon 2025+ (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. Objects of the class “David Owen” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. Faculty positions at Princeton in interdisciplinary data science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
22. Oregon State Stats Dept. is Hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. Make a hypothesis about what you expect to see, every step of the way. A manifesto: (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. Specification curve analysis and the multiverse (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All (www.theatlantic.com)
26. There Really Is a Deep State (www.theatlantic.com)
27. Help teaching short-course that has a healthy dose of data simulation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. Meta-analysis with a single study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. Prediction markets in 2024 and poll aggregation in 2008 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. TWiV 1165: What doesn't kill us primes our macrophages (www.microbe.tv)
31. ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Sounds Good Until You Start Asking Questions (www.theatlantic.com)
32. Polling by asking people about their neighbors: When does this work? Should people be doing more of it? And the connection to that French dude who bet on Trump (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
33. TWiV 1164: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
34. If you wanted to be a top tennis player in the late 1930s, there was a huge benefit to being a member of ____. Or to being named ____. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. Two spans of the bridge of inference (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Bad science as genre fiction: I think there’s a lot to be said for this analogy! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. The Red Sox are hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. America Has an Onion Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
39. Fake data on the honeybee waggle dance, followed by the inevitable “It is important to note that the conclusions of our studies remain firm and sound.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. Reflections on the recent election (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. That day in 1977 when Jerzy Neyman committed the methodological attribution fallacy. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. Regressions where the coefficients are a simplex. (freerangestats.info)
43. Self-reference and self-reproduction of evidence (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. What if the polls are right? (some scatterplots, and some comparisons to vote swings in past decades) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work (www.theatlantic.com)
46. Probabilistic numerics and the folk theorem of statistical computing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. Interpreting recent Iowa election poll using a rough Bayesian partition of error (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. Should pollsters preregister their design, data collection, and analyses? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
49. Violent science teacher makes ridiculously unsupported research claims, gets treated by legislatures/courts/media as expert on the effects of homeschooling (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. TWiV 1163: Hepadnaviridae in the heartland (www.microbe.tv)
51. A 10% swing in win probability corresponds (approximately) to a 0.4% swing in predicted vote (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. TWiV 1162: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
53. Calibration is sometimes sufficient for trusting predictions. What does this tell us when human experts use model predictions? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. “Trivia question for you. I kept temperature records for 100 days one year in Boston, starting August 15th (day “0”). What would you guess is the correlation between day# and temp? r=???” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. The Horseshoe Theory of Psychedelics (www.theatlantic.com)
56. Stan Playground: Run Stan on the web, play with your program and data at will, and no need to download anything on your computer (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. StanCon 2024 Oxford: recorded talks are now released! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. Leave-one-out cross validation (LOO) for an astronomy problem (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula (www.theatlantic.com)
60. Tobacco Companies May Have Found a Way to Make Vapes More Addictive (www.theatlantic.com)
61. Why Are Baseball Players Always Eating? (www.theatlantic.com)
62. Immune 85: Immune trade-offs (www.microbe.tv)
63. What makes an MCMC sampler GPU-friendly? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. Props to the liberal anticommunists of the 1930s-1950s (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. A question for Nate Cohn at the New York Times regarding a claim about adjusting polls using recalled past vote (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. Freakonomics does it again (not in a good way). Jeez, these guys are credulous: (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. NYT catches up to Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. “Reduce likelihood of a tick bite by 73.6 times”? Forking paths on the Appalachian Trail. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. TWiV 1161: Baby you can drive my gene (www.microbe.tv)
70. This one might possibly be interesting. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. TWiV 1160: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
72. Election Anxiety Is Telling You Something (www.theatlantic.com)
73. Prediction markets and the need for “dumb money” as well as “smart money” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
74. Flatiron Institute hiring: postdocs, joint faculty, and permanent research positions (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. The Dilemma at the Center of McDonald’s E. Coli Outbreak (www.theatlantic.com)
76. Postdoc opportunity! to work with me here at Columbia! on Bayesian workflow! for contamination models! With some wonderful collaborators!! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. Which book should you read first, Active Statistics or Regression and Other Stories? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. ChatGPT o1-preview can code Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. No One Knows How Big Pumpkins Can Get (www.theatlantic.com)
80. There’s No Coming Back From Dobbs (www.theatlantic.com)
81. 3M misconduct regarding knowledge of “forever chemicals”: As is so often the case, the problem was in open sight for a long time before anything was done (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. Coke, Twinkies, Skittles, and … Whole-Grain Bread? (www.theatlantic.com)
83. Tripping on Nothing (www.theatlantic.com)
84. TWiV 1159: Eliminating cervical cancer, and endometrial immunity (www.microbe.tv)
85. TWiV 1158: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
86. The ‘Peak Obesity’ Illusion (www.theatlantic.com)
87. Abortion Pills Have Changed the Post-Roe Calculus (www.theatlantic.com)
88. GLP-1 Is Going the Way of Gut Health (www.theatlantic.com)
89. TWiV 1157: Superworm liquefaction and a pandemic prophylactic (www.microbe.tv)
90. TWiV 1156: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
91. TWiV 1155: Spillover in stall A (www.microbe.tv)
92. TWiV 1154: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
93. TWiV 1153: Viruses that (can) make you well (www.microbe.tv)
94. Git, peer review, tests and toil (freerangestats.info)
95. TWiV 1152: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
96. Immune 84: Gender-affirming therapy and immune responses with Petter Brodin (www.microbe.tv)