Bad science, UFOs, R graphics tips, and various things in between
What's coming up this week
Head on over to the blog, where all this is happening:
Mon 26 Feb 2024: When Steve Bannon meets the Center for Open Science: Bad science and bad reporting combine to yield another ovulation/voting disaster
Tues 27 Feb: On the border between credulity and postmodernism: The case of the UFO’s-as-space-aliens media insiders
Wed 28 Feb: Blog is adapted to laptops or desktops, not to smartphones or pads.
Thurs 29 Feb: Mindlessness in the interpretation of a study on mindlessness
Fri 1 Mar: Minor-league Stats Predict Major-league Performance, Sarah Palin, and Some Differences Between Baseball and Politics
Sat 2 Mar: How to code and impute income in studies of opinion polls?
Sun 3 Mar: Hey! Here’s some R code to make colored maps using circle sizes proportional to county population.
And, if you need to catch up, here were last week’s posts:
24 Feb: “Science as Verified Trust”
23 Feb: The New York Young Republican Club
22 Feb: Why we say that honesty and transparency are not enough:
22 Feb: Michael Lewis.
21 Feb: Scientific publishers busily thwarting science (again)
21 Feb: Hey! A new (to me) text message scam! Involving a barfing dog!
20 Feb: When do we expect conformal prediction sets to be helpful?
20 Feb: Stabbers gonna stab — fraud edition
19 Feb: A gathering of the literary critics: Louis Menand and Thomas Mallon, meet Jeet Heer