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What’s it like to be the child of a white-collar criminal?
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What’s it like to be the child of a white-collar criminal? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Flagging when the prior distribution is informative
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Flagging when the prior distribution is informative | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Larry Summers, Ken Starr, Jeffrey Epstein, and everyone else
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Larry Summers, Ken Starr, Jeffrey Epstein, and everyone else | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Effective sample size
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Effective sample size | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The three funniest items on the Kroger recall list
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The three funniest items on the Kroger recall list | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The purpose of science vs. the purpose of scientists
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The purpose of science vs. the purpose of scientists | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Survey Statistics: quantity vs quality
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Survey Statistics: quantity vs quality | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox
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Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some thoughts on empirical distributions of z-scores
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Some thoughts on empirical distributions of z-scores | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number?
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Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The signal-to-noise ratio in statistics
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The signal-to-noise ratio in statistics | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“The Limits of Ethical AI”
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“The Limits of Ethical AI” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Who wants no kid vax law?
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Who wants no kid vax law? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?” Two different statistical measurement challenges arise from this one question on the General Social Survey.
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“What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?” Two different statistical measurement challenges arise from this one question on the General Social Survey. | Statistical Mo...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Three meta-principles of statistics: the information principle, the methodological attribution problem, and different applications demand different philosophies
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Three meta-principles of statistics: the information principle, the methodological attribution problem, and different applications demand different philosophies | Statistical Modeling, Causal Infere...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
StatRetro: The twitter feed that spits out our old blog posts, one at a time, every 8 hours
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StatRetro: The twitter feed that spits out our old blog posts, one at a time, every 8 hours | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This guy’s mad about fake research, and he should be. Research incompetence, research fraud, and the promotion of fraudulent or incompetent work . . . these are not victimless crimes.
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This guy’s mad about fake research, and he should be. Research incompetence, research fraud, and the promotion of fraudulent or incompetent work . . . these are not victimless crimes. | Statistical ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Survey Statistics: sampling the sample
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Survey Statistics: sampling the sample | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Under what sort of systematic reporting errors will science be self-correcting, or not? And do gardening programs reduce obesity?
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Under what sort of systematic reporting errors will science be self-correcting, or not? And do gardening programs reduce obesity? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Aristocrats! (Found poetry in the email archive)
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The Aristocrats! (Found poetry in the email archive) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A Borgesian blog idea (and nothing to do with forking paths)
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A Borgesian blog idea (and nothing to do with forking paths) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold?
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Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The density of fraud
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The density of fraud | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram
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The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors?
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How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM