Brady West
@bradytwest.bsky.social
Research Professor @ Univ. of MI Institute for Social Research (ISR) and Department of Biostatistics. Usually discussing statistics, surveys, sports, music, and leadership. Personal website: www.umich.edu/~bwest
Just a miserable failure by the Lions coaching staff today. Hasn’t been great for multiple games, but this is a nadir. And now the playoffs are in jeopardy.
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just a miserable failure by the Lions coaching staff today. Hasn’t been great for multiple games, but this is a nadir. And now the playoffs are in jeopardy.
Really bad time for one of your better defensive players to just glitch out…WTF?
Brian Branch, maybe finish the play next time
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Really bad time for one of your better defensive players to just glitch out…WTF?
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Lets get a live look-in with the Michigan bench
a bald man is sitting at a desk making a funny face and pointing at the camera .
ALT: a bald man is sitting at a desk making a funny face and pointing at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Lets get a live look-in with the Michigan bench
I’ve never seen anything like what Michigan basketball is doing right now. Bonkers. If they hit shots at this kind of clip, look out, because the D should be there every night. #HAIL
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I’ve never seen anything like what Michigan basketball is doing right now. Bonkers. If they hit shots at this kind of clip, look out, because the D should be there every night. #HAIL
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Our new #rstats package. This one implements and extends Lee et al. (2022) maximum entropy classification so you can automate your record linkage pipeline. Let us know what you think! cc @tslumley.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social @bradytwest.bsky.social @bschneidr.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Our new #rstats package. This one implements and extends Lee et al. (2022) maximum entropy classification so you can automate your record linkage pipeline. Let us know what you think! cc @tslumley.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social @bradytwest.bsky.social @bschneidr.bsky.social
Michigan freshman Oscar Goodman gets a huge slam and the bench completely loses it
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Hanyu Sun & Fred Conrad examine the differences in interviewer and respondent paralinguistic behaviors (such as “uh” and “um” or laughter) between video and in-person interviews and whether these difference influence respondents' answers myumi.ch/rAPZ7
How Does Video Interviewing Affect the Interviewers’ and Respondents’ Paralinguistic Behaviors? A First Exploration
| methods, data, analyses
methods, data, analyses (mda)
myumi.ch
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Hanyu Sun & Fred Conrad examine the differences in interviewer and respondent paralinguistic behaviors (such as “uh” and “um” or laughter) between video and in-person interviews and whether these difference influence respondents' answers myumi.ch/rAPZ7
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Mark your calendar for the next, hybrid half-day PDHP Workshop with @d3center.bsky.social experts, covering Adaptive Interventions: Dec. 12! Register at pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ @leb112358.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mark your calendar for the next, hybrid half-day PDHP Workshop with @d3center.bsky.social experts, covering Adaptive Interventions: Dec. 12! Register at pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ @leb112358.bsky.social
The Lions defense has been beyond awful all day. Like, what is this? You are letting Jameis Winston do whatever he wants. Just absolutely inexcusable.
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Lions defense has been beyond awful all day. Like, what is this? You are letting Jameis Winston do whatever he wants. Just absolutely inexcusable.
Heads up! If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in survey and data science (read: all things quantitative social science) at the University of Michigan, please check out these upcoming info sessions!
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Heads up! If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in survey and data science (read: all things quantitative social science) at the University of Michigan, please check out these upcoming info sessions!
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So great to see BLS back to work measuring and informing us about our large and dynamic economy.
It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
So great to see BLS back to work measuring and informing us about our large and dynamic economy.
It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
How about these Pistons??? 😮💨😤💯
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
How about these Pistons??? 😮💨😤💯
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ICYMI: watch the #sbeccc webinar and view the presentation slides from @bradytwest.bsky.social on ICPSR's YouTube channel: myumi.ch/kPRXk
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ICYMI: watch the #sbeccc webinar and view the presentation slides from @bradytwest.bsky.social on ICPSR's YouTube channel: myumi.ch/kPRXk
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Meet Zachary Winograd, student at the Michigan Program for Survey and Data Science and research assistant at @d3center.bsky.social at the Survey Research Center (SRC)!
Learn more about the MPSDS and students here: surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu
#masters #research #datascience
Learn more about the MPSDS and students here: surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu
#masters #research #datascience
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Meet Zachary Winograd, student at the Michigan Program for Survey and Data Science and research assistant at @d3center.bsky.social at the Survey Research Center (SRC)!
Learn more about the MPSDS and students here: surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu
#masters #research #datascience
Learn more about the MPSDS and students here: surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu
#masters #research #datascience
Chat GPT tells me that what happened in the Michigan football game today has never happened before (Div. 1, playing on road, 5 turnovers, 2 missed field goals, still win):
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Chat GPT tells me that what happened in the Michigan football game today has never happened before (Div. 1, playing on road, 5 turnovers, 2 missed field goals, still win):
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interesting little "need to get your shit together asap" moment here for ol' Sherrone Moore's Michigan
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
interesting little "need to get your shit together asap" moment here for ol' Sherrone Moore's Michigan
OK, it’s clear to everyone and their brother that Michigan cannot trust Zvada. Like, enough. Sherrone needs to go for it on 4th and short, every time.
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
OK, it’s clear to everyone and their brother that Michigan cannot trust Zvada. Like, enough. Sherrone needs to go for it on 4th and short, every time.
A road win is a road win, but man Michigan has got to fix the careless turnover problem. Been an issue for two straight years with completely different players…🤨
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A road win is a road win, but man Michigan has got to fix the careless turnover problem. Been an issue for two straight years with completely different players…🤨
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Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters
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Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters
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Making connections at #GSA2025? The @umisr.bsky.social Institute for Social Research is an extraordinary hub for studying aging. Follow us all with starter pack tabs from @um-psc.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social and @rcgd-isr.bsky.social, and comment to be added! go.bsky.app/JcQbemD
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Making connections at #GSA2025? The @umisr.bsky.social Institute for Social Research is an extraordinary hub for studying aging. Follow us all with starter pack tabs from @um-psc.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social and @rcgd-isr.bsky.social, and comment to be added! go.bsky.app/JcQbemD
This May 6-8 (2026), I will be offering a three-day online short course on practical tools for the analysis of complex sample survey data (with weights, strata, clusters, replicate weights, etc.) via Statistical Horizons:
statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/ana...
Click the link for additional info!
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Complex Survey Data | Online Seminar | Statistical Horizons
Brady West, Ph.D. teaches this online seminar on complex survey data. Learn design-based methods to analyze weighted, stratified, and clustered samples.
statisticalhorizons.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This May 6-8 (2026), I will be offering a three-day online short course on practical tools for the analysis of complex sample survey data (with weights, strata, clusters, replicate weights, etc.) via Statistical Horizons:
statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/ana...
Click the link for additional info!
statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/ana...
Click the link for additional info!
This was an absolute all-timer of a Gus Johnson call, which is appropriate given how utterly incredible the catch was. Crazy!
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This was an absolute all-timer of a Gus Johnson call, which is appropriate given how utterly incredible the catch was. Crazy!
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LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵