I don’t have an easy way to list all 11,287 posts we’ve had since 12 Oct 2004 . . . Here’s what came up the past couple of weeks.
The comments section: A request to non-commenters, occasional commenters, and frequent commenters
Update on that politically-loaded paper published in Demography that I characterized as a “hack job”: Further post-publication review
Inaccuracy in New York magazine report on election forecasting
“Responsibility for Raw Data”: “Failure to retain data for some reasonable length of time following publication would produce notoriety equal to the notoriety attained by publishing inaccurate results. A possibly more effective means of controlling quality of publication would be to institute a system of quality control whereby random samples of raw data from submitted journal articles would be requested by editors and scrutinized for accuracy and the appropriateness of the analysis performed.”
Defining statistical models in JAX?
A quick simulation to demonstrate the wild variability of p-values
Honesty and transparency are not enough: politics edition
“Tough choices in election forecasting: All the things that can go wrong” (my webinar this Friday 11am with the Washington Statistical Society)
Some references and discussions on the foundations of probability—not the math so much as its connection to the real world, including the claim that “Pr(aliens exist on Neptune that can rap battle) = .137”
Salesses: “some writing exercises meant to help students with various elements of craft”
eLife press release: Deterministic thinking led to a nonsensical statement
Basu’s Bears (Fat Bear Week and survey calibration)
22 Revision Prompts from Matthew Salesses
Clybourne Park. And a Jamaican beef patty. (But no Gray Davis, no Grover Norquist, no rabbi.)
Evidence-based Medicine Eats Itself, and How to do Better (my talk at USC this Friday)
Wendy Brown: “Just as nothing is more corrosive to serious intellectual work than being governed by a political programme (whether that of states, corporations, or a revolutionary movement), nothing is more inapt to a political campaign than the unending reflexivity, critique and self-correction required of scholarly inquiry.”
I guess the best of these are the simulation of p-values and the discussion of the foundations of probability.
