News

1. The Cost of Avoiding Microplastics (www.theatlantic.com)
2. Instability of win probability in election forecasts (with a little bit of R) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Getting a pass on evaluating ways to improve science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. “Take a pass”: New contronym just dropped. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. The Secret to Getting Men to Wear Hearing Aids (www.theatlantic.com)
6. Election prediction markets: What happens next? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. 20 years of blogging . . . What have been your favorite posts? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. The Mets are looking to hire a data scientist (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. The Rider (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. Shreddergate! A fascinating investigation into possible dishonesty in a psychology experiment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. A Fix for Antibiotic Resistance Could Be Hiding in The Past (www.theatlantic.com)
12. TWiV 1149: Mary Estes, a gutsy virologist (www.microbe.tv)
13. Tua Tagovailoa’s Impossible Choice (www.theatlantic.com)
14. Freakonomics asks, “Why is there so much fraud in academia,” but without addressing one big incentive for fraud, which is that, if you make grabby enough claims, you can get featured in . . . Freakonomics! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. TWiV 1148: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
16. Supercentenarian superfraud update (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. Movements in the prediction markets, and going beyond a black-box view of markets and prediction models (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. Stepwise selection of variables in regression is Evil. (freerangestats.info)
19. It’s Stanford time, baby: 8-hour time-restricted press releases linked to a 91% higher risk of hype (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. B-school prof data sleuth lawsuit fails (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. ‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’ (www.theatlantic.com)
22. Trump’s Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign (www.theatlantic.com)
23. Decisions of parties to run moderate or extreme candidates (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. Bird Flu Is Quietly Getting Scarier (www.theatlantic.com)
25. Immune Booster #9: Autoimmune diseases with Mark Shlomchik (www.microbe.tv)
26. Awesome online graph guessing game. And scatterplot charades. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. Bayesian social science conference in Amsterdam! Next month! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. The mainstream press is failing America (UK edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. A Food-Allergy Fix Hiding in Plain Sight (www.theatlantic.com)
30. Modeling Weights to Generalize (my talk this Wed noon at the Columbia University statistics department) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. Here’s a useful response by Christakis to criticisms of the contagion-of-obesity claims (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Final Game Beneath the Eiffel Tower (www.theatlantic.com)
33. Sports gambling addiction epidemic fueled by some combination of psychology, economics, and politics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. TWiV 1147: Breastmilk paradox for norovirus (www.microbe.tv)
35. Evil scamming fake publishers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Vampire Who Bites Medals (www.theatlantic.com)
37. Remember that paper that reported contagion of obesity? How’s it being cited nowadays? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Gender and sexuality in Australian surveys and census (freerangestats.info)
39. TWiV 1146: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
40. “Very interesting failed attempt at manipulation on Polymarket today” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Show of Camaraderie (www.theatlantic.com)
42. The Fairest Way to Keep Cognitively Declining People From Being Elected (www.theatlantic.com)
43. If you want to play women’s tennis at the top level, there’s a huge benefit to being ____. Not just ____, but exceptionally ___, outlier-outlier ___. (And what we can learn about social science from this stylized fact.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. Paralympics Photo of the Day: Double Gold (www.theatlantic.com)
45. The NYT sinks to a new low in political coverage (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
46. In search of a theory associating honest citation with a higher/deeper level of understanding than (dishonest) plagiarism (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. It Matters If It’s COVID (www.theatlantic.com)
48. Paralympics Photo of the Day: Winding Up a Powerful Throw (www.theatlantic.com)
49. Should you always include a varying slope for the lower-level variable involved in a cross-level interaction? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Dodge and Parry (www.theatlantic.com)
51. Feedback on the blog—this is your chance! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. Immune Booster #8: Immunology, metabolism, and exercise physiology with Heather Caslin (www.microbe.tv)
53. Paralympics Photo of the Day: Tears of Gold (www.theatlantic.com)
54. Chutzpah is their superpower (Dominic Sandbrook edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. Paralympics Photo of the Day: The Hazards of Blind Football (www.theatlantic.com)
56. “My basic question is do we really need data to be analysed by both methods?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. TWiV 1145: Heartbeats and hoofbeats (www.microbe.tv)
58. log(A + x), not log(1 + x) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. Paralympics Photo of the Day: Drawing Her Bow (www.theatlantic.com)
60. “The Waltz of Reason” and a paradox of book reviewing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. TWiV 1144: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
62. Millions of American Women Have a Condition Doctors Rarely Test For (www.theatlantic.com)
63. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Long Jumper With Wings (www.theatlantic.com)
64. Why are we making probabilistic election forecasts? (and why don’t we put so much effort into them?) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. Sampling without replacement with unequal probabilities (freerangestats.info)
66. The Wildfire Risk in America’s Front Yards (www.theatlantic.com)
67. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Perilous Challenge (www.theatlantic.com)
68. The statistical controversy over “White Rural Rage: the Threat to American Democracy” (and a comment about post-publication review) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. Ratios of indexed line charts (freerangestats.info)
70. Paralympics Photo of the Day: A Flying Cauldron (www.theatlantic.com)
71. Piranhas for “omics”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
72. Doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finland (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
74. Immune 83: Immune cells eating other cells (www.microbe.tv)
75. Faculty positions at the University of California on AI, Inequality, and Society (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. What’s gonna happen between now and November 5? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. America Is Doubling Down on Sewer Surveillance (www.theatlantic.com)
78. Beyond junk science: How to go forward (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. Luck vs. skill in poker (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. TWiV 1143: SARS-CoV-2 gone wild, with a side of rice (www.microbe.tv)
81. Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Identification Strategies on Strong Causal Claims in France (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. TWiV 1142: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
83. Abortion crime controversy update (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
84. Polar-centred maps (freerangestats.info)
85. “Alphabetical order of surnames may affect grading” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
86. Which books, papers, and blogs are in the Bayesian canon? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
87. “The Stadium” by Frank Guridy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
88. Immune Booster #7: Emerging viruses with David Martinez (www.microbe.tv)
89. Implicitly denying the controversy associated with the Implicit Association Test. (Whassup with the American Association of Arts & Sciences?) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
90. The JAMA effect plus news media echo chamber: More misleading publicity on that problematic claim that lesbians and bisexual women die sooner than straight women (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
91. Perturbing a non-symmetrical probability distribution (freerangestats.info)
92. “Zombie Ideas” in psychology, from personality profiling to lucky golf balls (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
93. TWiV 1141: Being green with the Red Queen (www.microbe.tv)
94. “The Secret Life of John Le Carré” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
95. TWiV 1140: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
96. Immune Booster #6: From Ghana to heat shock with Robert Binder (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV 1139: Long COVID with Dr. Judith Bruchfeld (www.microbe.tv)
98. TWiV 1138: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
99. Snakes and ladders (freerangestats.info)
100. Immune Booster #5: Infections and the gut microbiome with Rafael Polidoro (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1137: Dengue is not BANAL (www.microbe.tv)
102. TWiV 1136: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
103. Immune 82: Bat antibodies are hot (www.microbe.tv)
104. TWiV 1135: Resistance is not always futile (www.microbe.tv)
105. TWiV 1134: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
106. Population age changes in the Pacific (freerangestats.info)
107. Immune Booster #4: Human autoimmunity with Jane Buckner (www.microbe.tv)